UPDATE 1: Sony has released another statement on the matter, detailing how the system is being rebuilt from the ground up, you can read it here! UPDATE 2: A financial estimate from the Ponemon Institute values the damage of the breach, should user data confirmed to have been lost, at $24 billion. Read the Forbes […]
Ever since Christopher Tin’s “Baba Yetu” theme won this year’s “Best Instrumental Accompanying Vocals” GRAMMY award, rumors have been circulating that video games will be getting their own special category at next year’s ceremony. According to a report from IndustryGamers, that might be the entire case. But word from the Recording Academy isn’t all bad […]
Apropos to their namesake, Boston-based casual developer Floodgate Entertainment (Flowerz, Daycare Nightmare) becomes the latest acquisition to Zynga’s massive industry infrastructure grab. The studio will join with Zynga Boston, Floodgate’s founder Paul Neurath becoming the new studio’s Creative Director. The specific details of the deal have not been released.
Harkening back to the days of Nintendon’t and Genesisn’t, the respective heads and representatives of the two biggest publishers in the industry have begun what appears to be a press statement duel. Beginning with some statements from the soundbite-favorite Bobby Kotick of Activision, Electronic Arts has fired back to what it believes to be some […]