‘Gaming’ Archives
Business Plans for Mobile Gaming Companies
Mobile gaming, casual gaming and social gaming are definitely buzz words in the news. We’ve all seen the barrage of Facebook updates from friends playing Mafia Wars, Farmville and others. Then, there is the stream of requests to add Foursquare or Gowalla. Followed by increasing talk from friends and coworkers about the latest game they bought on [...]
Augmented Reality Game Developer Ogmento raises $3.5M
We have been waiting for this announcment for a while given our interest in the future of Augmented Reality (AR) and our connections to Ogmento team. What is augmented reality? It is a technology that superimposes virtual data with views of the real world. Ogmento, based in New York, announced that it raised $3.5 million in Series A [...]
Location based game developer Booyah raises $20M
Location based games continue to be a favorite of the venture funding. The company behind the location-based game MyTown, Booyah Inc., recently closed a $20 million round of financing led by Accel Partners, with existing investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and DAG Ventures also participating in the round. MyTown is a Monopoly-like [...]
U.S. Spent More Than $25 Billion On Video Games In 2009
Many people think of video games as “kids stuff”. They do not realize the true size of the market and opportunity across all age levels. How big do you think total revenues for the video game industry in the U.S. is annually? Newzoo, a Dutch research firm, estimates that 183.5 million gamers spent $25.29 billion in the US last year [...]
NAVTEQ: The content and services behind navigation and GPS (video overviews)
These videos give a short overview of NAVTEQ, new spatial content and the location based services. Have you thought about how the map and spatial content for navigation devices and location based services is collected? Do you know what company provides the services behind the leading brands on the market (e.g. BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Honda, Ford, [...]
PS3 Update
PlayStation 3 (PS3) system upgrade will be released on April 1, 2010. The latest release will disable the “Install Other OS” feature that was available on previous game consoles. Current users of the the “Install Other OS” feature can choose not to upgrade their PS3 systems, although the following features will no longer be [...]
Friday Blurbs…. 26th of March
Netflix does Wii - According to Jessie Becker, a spokes person for Netflix, said in a blog posting on the site. Netflix is getting ready for the launch of streaming to Wii. On Thursday Netflix started sending out instant streaming discs for the Wii to some of our Netflix members. This will allow customers to watch movies and TV episodes from [...]
Friday Blurbs…..
Cisco's New Router: Trouble for Hollywood - Time: Cisco's CRS-3 router made a bit of a splash when it was announced on March 9, but the power of this new device hasn't yet sunk in. Consider: The CRS-3, a network routing system, is able to stream every film ever made, from Hollywood to Bombay, in under four minutes. That's right — the whole [...]
OnLive Cloud Gaming Service to Launch in June
For the price of a low-end PC plus a monthly fee you'll soon be able to play ultra-high-end games like Borderlands, Mass Effect 2, Assassin's Creed 2, and Crysis. According to VentureBeat, the service, dubbed OnLive, will launch in June after eight years of research and development, offer up to 720p-caliber high-def gameplay, and cost $14.95 a [...]
Downtime scheduled for Battlefield Bad Company 2 servers Wednesday
According to GameDaily, it looks like the problems with the Battlefield Bad Company 2 official online servers that started this weekend have crept up again today. There was some downtime earlier today on the servers for EA's recent first person shooter that the game's official blog site said, "was caused by a routing issue outside of EA's [...]
This Alternate Reality Game May Drag You Back to Reality, And The World May Be Better Off For It!!
In a world of alternate reality games comes a shift back to reality. The World Bank Institute, yes the World Bank, has teamed up with Jane McGonigal, creator of the alternate reality game, "World Without Oil". Which challenged people to re-imagine their lives without their dependence on fossil fuels, to create "Urgent Evoke" a very interesting [...]
hi5 Acquires Social Game Developer Big Six
Deal boosts hi5's leadership in commerce platforms and payment processing San Francisco, CA; Feb. 24, 2009 — hi5, the largest social entertainment site focused on gaming, today announced the acquisition of social gaming company Big Six. The Austin-based company was founded by gaming veterans Kevin Gliner, Monty Kerr and Chad Hansing, all [...]
New algorithm to improve computer graphics for video games.
Research presented in a paper by Morgan McGuire, assistant professor of computer science at Williams College, and co-author Dr. David Luebke of NVIDIA, introduces a new algorithm to improve computer graphics for video games. McGuire and Luebke have developed a new method for computerizing lighting and light sources that will allow video [...]
Gaming: New DRM to combat piracy, drive away customers
ITWorld, February 18, 2010, 10:41 PM — There's no question that piracy is a big problem in the video game world, but what's the solution? More DRM? That seems to be the direction we're headed as evidenced by a pair of recent stories. Sony's PSP has suffered greatly thanks to an enthusiastic modding community that isn't shy about ripping [...]
Microsoft Previews What’s Next for Bing Maps
New features coming to Microsoft's search technology include integration with Flickr photos, support in Streetside views for 'indoor panoramas,' and real-time video overlay capabilities. Microsoft demonstrated new and experimental features that it proposes adding to Bing Maps, the mapping component of its search engine technology, at the [...]
