Disney acquires Wideload Games
Disney has announced yet another acquisition deal.
The company recently announced that they were acquiring Marvel.
Disney is now buying Wideload Games which is based in Chicago.
The two companies did not reveal the financial aspects of the deal.
Wideload CEO Alexander Seropian would now join Disney as Vice President of Creative [...]

John Schappert leaves Microsoft for EA
EA has announced the appointment of John Schappert as their new chief operating officer.
He is leaving Microsoft to join EA where he has worked before.
In fact he had started working at EA as a software engineer way back in the year 1991.
He had left EA for Microsoft in [...]

Simon Jeffrey joins Ngmoco

Ngmoco has announced the appointment of Simon Jeffrey as the new Chief Publishing Officer of the company’s Plus+ Publishing group.
Jeffery was previously the president and COO of Sega of America. He has also worked at LucasArts as the company’s COO and President.
This is a great appointment from the popular mobile gaming [...]

Nintendo: camera based motion sensing does not work
Nintendo has pioneered motion sensing gaming with their Nintendo Wii gaming console.
Now, both Microsoft and Sony are developing similar technology for their gaming consoles.
And both of these solutions are based on camera based motion sensing capabilities.
Nintendo has revealed that they have tried going through that route but it [...]

Videogame sales in April went down 17%
April turned out to be a bad month for the videogame industry.
The overall video game retail sales in the US market declined by around 17%.
The market has seen a decline for two months consecutively now.
However, Grand Theft Auto IV was one of the major reasons for [...]

Microsoft acquiring videogame company BigPark
US based software giant Microsoft has announced that they are now acquiring Canadian online game developer BigPark.
The two companies did not reveal the financial aspects of this acquisition deal.
BigPark was founded in 2007 and it consists of developers who had previously worked on popular gaming titles like Need for [...]

Gaming themes now available on iGoogle
Google has made available some new themes on their iGoogle personalized home page service.
These new themes are based on popular videogame franchises.
The themes are available for games like:
Animal Crossing
The Lord of the Rings: Conquest
Call of Duty: World at War
Donkey Kong
Dungeons & Dragons
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles
Tomb Raider: Underworld
Galaga
World of Warcraft
Mega [...]

Dan Rosensweig would now manage Guitar Hero division
Videogame company Activision has announced the appointment of Dan Rosensweig as the new head of the unit which makes the popular Guitar Hero series of games.
Rosensweig is a former COO of Yahoo.
He has now been named the President and Chief Executive of RedOctane.
Activision [...]

THQ posts a quarterly loss
Video game publisher THQ has come out with their latest revenue report and the company has posted a big quarterly loss.
THQ said that the sales went down drastically. The company also declined to provide an outlook for the current quarter.
The company further announced that they are now going to cut [...]