Silicon Alley Insider (Thursday)

Nicolas Gaume has had a great run as a gaming entrepreneur and now he wants to beat Zynga.

At 19, Gaume was the founder of games studio Kalisto, which made some iconic games, soared with the bubble, and crashed with the bust.

Now he...

Venturebeat (Tuesday)

Red Dead Redemption, the blockbuster Western video game from Take-Two Interactive, sold more than 8 million units through Dec. 31, thanks in no small part to online content sales.

The results show that a big blockbuster console game can get a sec...

Venturebeat (Friday)

The Hot or Not web site was an early web sensation when it debuted in 2000, letting you rate how attractive women or men were with a simple voting system. Now Avatar Reality, the maker of the Blue Mars virtual world, let’s iPhone users vote on how...

Venturebeat (Thursday)

If you’re a teen chances are you’ve checked into the Habbo Hotel. Sulake, the parent company of the cartoon-style virtual world, said today that more than 200 million people have registered as users for Habbo.

That means they’ve...

GigaOm (Thursday)
Nobody really knew why Facebook hired former Second Life CTO Cory Ondrejka in a surprise deal last year. But now it has become apparent: He’s using his experiences building the virtual world to try to take web-based games to the next level.

Venturebeat (Friday)

2011 will be a year of economic recovery and continued drama in Silicon Valley, marked by the hyped battles of Apple vs. Google, Google vs. Facebook, and Oracle vs. the rest of the enterprise world. Without further ado, here the 4th annual edition of ...