Game News and Game Industry Trends
New today from PopCap Games: Vacation Quest - Australia! This fun new game combines 28 levels of hidden-object-hunting entertainment with minigames and a laid-back …
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This week’s interview with Artists in the Industry From week to week I’m writing about what it’s like to have an art career in video games. Every now and then I’ll feature an interview from one of the artists working in our studio and in the industry. This week I sat down with Lynwood Montgomery, the Director of Art at Gamehouse studios. 1. How did you get into the games business? Long ago in a galaxy far…
The sixth installment to the popular Jewel Quest series is here! Jewel Quest fans can now finally get their hands on Jewel Quest – The Sapphire Dragon Premium Edition. Join Raj and his team of archaeologists in an all-new journey around the globe in a pursuit of Jiang Hao and her pirate posse. As they hunt down Hao and her gang, the team must also find out the secret behind the Sapphire Dragon with the…
We’re excited to announce the arrival of Royal Envoy 2: Platinum Edition! The first Royal Envoy is one of our users’ favorites, with a near-perfect average rating of 4.8 out of 5 stars over 103 reviews. Users loved the family-friendly gameplay, the game’s mix of puzzles and time management, and the graphics and music. Royal Envoy 2: Platinum Edition gives you more of the gameplay you love, with over 60 new levels of city-building fun….
Working in a game studio environment Every week we release a new “skin” for Collapse! Blast to keep the game feeling fresh. What’s a skin? It’s a new look for an existing interface. I’m going to quickly go through the process of how we created the Baby New Years skin that was released on December 27th 2011. Begin with a concept Our studio VP sent an email to me and asked what our plans were…
GameHouse Tops List for Emerging Facebook Game, Says Inside Social Games Bayou Blast, released a little over two months ago, has already become one of the fastest growing social games for GameHouse. In fact, Bayou Blast topped the list of emerging Facebook games for the end of 2011, according to Inside Social Games. The game grew its active monthly user base by 65 percent during the last week of December, and attracted its one-millionth monthly…
GameHouse’s Delicious Franchise Sweeps Another “Best Of Games” Award Some of the top romantic movies of this generation are The Notebook, The Proposal, Across The Universe and of course, Twilight. But love and romance aren’t just for the big Hollywood screen. GameHouse has an award-winning leading lady of our own trying to find her true love in the release of Delicious – Emily’s True Love. The seventh installment of the time-management game series, Delicious, released…
Hey FunTicket subscribers – did you know that you can now use 2 FunTickets to buy any Premium or Platinum Edition game on GameHouse.com? It’s true! Use 2 FunTickets to win And now when you buy a Premium Edition game or Platinum Edition game with 2 FunTickets, you’ll automatically be entered in our prize drawing to win a Kindle Fire! Hurry, contest ends January 25. Learn more. Not a FunTicket subscriber? Join today and get…
The video game industry is changing like never before. Here are my best attempts at peering into the crystal ball for 2012: Prediction #1: Tablets are the new game consoles Tablets and smartphones are already becoming the mass market console gaming platform of choice. I personally play more core games on my iPad than I do on my console. I played a lot of the Batman Arkham City Lockdown game and was blown away at…
You landed an interview at a game company, now what? I’m going to come right out and just say it. If you’ve landed a job interview at a game company then you’re already half way to landing the job. Hurray! It means that the Art Director has reviewed your portfolio and thinks that your artwork and past experience may be the right fit for a role on the team. The formal interview is almost always…
Hello and Happy Holidays! I just found out this morning that the game that I help create, Collapse! Blast, was ranked in the top 10 games of 2011 by Inside Social Games. Congratulations to my talented teammates, this is an incredible achievement. The fun part of making social games is that we get to update the content weekly and we will be working hard to make Collapse! Blast the best game we can in 2012….
