Category - Industry News

Precinct Game Canceled

In a very sad bit of news today, the folks behind the spiritual successor to the Police Quest series, PRECINCT, have announced that the project is canceled due to lack of crowd-funding momentum. On a personal note, I was really looking-forward...

John Carmack Joins Oculus Rift as CTO

IRVINE, CALIFORNIA (August 7, 2013) – Oculus VR, Inc., developer of the highly anticipated Oculus Rift, today announced that legendary programmer John Carmack has joined the Oculus team as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and will lead...

EA Loses Madden Lawsuit to Developer

July 23, 2013 — After three days of deliberations, a jury in U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California today ruled in favor of Robin Antonick, the original designer and developer of Electronic Arts’ (NASDAQ: EA) best...

InnoGames Shuts Down Kartuga and Studio...

Hamburg, July 16th, 2013. Today, online games publisher InnoGames and Development Studio Ticking Bomb Games announced the discontinuation of the pirate-MMO Kartuga. Simultaneously the companies’ partnership was disbanded. Regardless of its...

gamigo Acquires Airwin Entertainment

July 2nd, 2013 — gamigo AG acquires 100% of the Austrian company Airwin Entertainment GmbH from A1 Telekom Austria AG. The company hereby expands its Online games portfolio to mobile games. Airwin Entertainment was founded in 2011 and has...