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Xbox 360 platform holder Microsoft has told MCV that reports claiming Twitter and Facebook access on Xbox 360 will be reserved for Gold members of Xbox Live only are incorrect. The belief stems from a footnote in this morning’s announcement of a price cut for the Xbox 360 Elite console …
Read More »Doak returns with Facebook dev
GoldenEye designer and Free Radical founder David Doak has returned to games development via a new studio making Facebook games, Develop understands. The new firm has emerged following the late 2008 collapse of TimeSplitters dev Free Radical. Develop understands that two of the four original founders of Free Radical, David …
Read More »Video games to save MySpace
News Corp is to strengthen the video gaming offering on MySpace, in a hope to close the gap on Facebook, which currently courts more users. As reported by Reuters, speaking at the Fortune Brainstorm: TECH conference in Pasadena, California, News Corp digital head Jonathan Miller has been discussing the importance …
Read More »Video games to ‘save’ MySpace
News corp to bolster gaming offering
Read More »Playfish ‘unsure’ of Facebook Connect
Speaking in a panel at the Develop Conference 2009, Playfish CEO Kristian Segerstrale as revealed he is yet to be convinced by the prospect of the Xbox 360’s forthcoming social networking service, Facebook Connect. To read the full stroy, click here to visit CasualGaming.biz.
Read More »Industry vet blasts Twitter â??buzzwordsâ??
Widespread naivety on the true value of social network integration, says Mika
Read More »The Social Swing
Industry vet Mike Mika on the convergence of social media
Read More »100 million Playfish games installed in 18 months
Global audience embraces socially networked games
Read More »MICROSOFT: Xbox teams up with Last.fm, Facebook and Twitter
Microsoft has announced new deals with online music station Last.fm and social networking site Facebook – the latest in a major week of content partnerships that has also seen it team up with TV service bSKYb. In addition, Xbox 360 will also be introducing Twitter compatibility. On top of this …
Read More »Video games are more popular than cinema
More people in America play video games than go to the cinema, according to a recent survey carried out by the NPD group. Around two-thirds (63 per cent) of North Americans have played a game in the past six months, whereas only 53 per cent have gone to the movies …
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