Over seven months ago, casual games maker Crowdstar announced that it will no longer develop games for Facebook. The company behind girl-oriented titles such as It Girl, Happy Pets, and Top Girl revealed that it has raised a fresh batch of investment to the tune of $11.5 million, which would help Crowdstar double-down on its transition into mobile gaming. This brings the company’s total funding to $35 milli...

Nielsen Group recently has revealed its annual survey that covered the video gaming business and related trends. It has reported that there are now around 56 percent of US households that own at least the latest generation gaming console. That is up from 50 percent from last year. The survey also indicated that there in an increase seen in mobile and tablet gaming, which helped provide a 7 percent increase in tota...

Social gaming has become quite a popular distraction among those who frequently go online. By far, the pack is being led by the partnership between social game maker Zynga and social network behemoth Facebook. It has been one of those partnerships that has introduced and popularized social gaming into a giant that it is today. But some changes may be in the air as Zynga has announced that it is putting up its own ...

It may be hard for a market leader in an industry to be fall and be overtaken. Aside from an embarrassing slide, recovering from it may be a tough act to follow. The same thing may be currently happening to Nintendo, a company that was only some time ago was on top of the video gaming console business. Nintendo actually has been through several dips and rises through the years. Only in the recent years, it has sta...

Nintendo has recently announced that it is dropping the price of its Wii gaming console to US$150 starting May 15. The new price comes in a package that will include a free Mario Kart game along with the console purchase. Not only that, the package will also include the Wii Wheel accessory that can be used to play Mario Kart. This move was something that some avid gamers have been waiting for and also expect. The...

The Guitar Hero franchise has become quite a popular game among both console gamers. In fact, it was Guitar Hero, which popularized a new and unique way of gaming by imitating guitar licks that go with popular tunes using a special guitar controller, that literally opened up and boosted sales of music-based gaming titles. After all the Guitar Hero franchise garnered about US$1.7 billion in terms of sales in 2008, ...

If there is ever a measure to gauge a certain product’s success in the market, its longevity may be one of the main factors being included. A product that continues to sell well even after a decade since first introduced in the market is something that many companies would only want to dream of. It may be quite a rarity for a product to enjoy such a long selling record in a market where new technology seems ...

Google has recently announced in its blog that it may be a couple of months away from removing H.264 video codec support on its Chrome browser. H.264 is a very popular video codec that has somehow been an established standard when viewing video streaming on websites. With Google removing its support for the video codec, opinions vary depending on where a person stands. For others, the news the Google may be removi...

It is not only social networking that has been getting hot online these days. The success of Facebook also helped other online companies along the way. Accompanying Facebook in this surge in popularity is social gaming. In fact, both seem to have become ideal partners enjoying some good fortune. Social gaming has taken great strides especially when Zynga partnered up with Facebook to bring social games such as Far...

Sony has just announced that it will cease supporting Linux on its PS3 gaming consoles. According to the PlayStation Blog, the new firmware update for the PS3 system will be disabling the "Install Other OS" feature that was made available to previous PS3 consoles prior to the current slimmer models. The PS3 Firmware 3.21 update which will be released on April 1 will remove the said functionality mainly d...