Game News and Game Industry Trends
Infographic: Study Shows that Facebook Gamers are a Mother Load Article by Matt Hulett, reposted with permission from Games.com. Moms. Throughout history mothers seem to never get enough credit, yet as eloquently said by President Theodore Roosevelt, “for upon her time and strength demands are made not only every hour of the day, but often every hour of the night.” President Roosevelt made that statement in a speech in 1905 but more than a century…
Former designer on Playdom’s Gardens of Time and Tiki Farm relocates to Seattle from San Francisco to help lead GameHouse’s fastest growing business Video-game industry veteran, Jared Brinkley, comes to GameHouse as our new General Manager of Social Game Design, and brings nearly 20 years of interactive entertainment design and development experience on titles such as Gardens of Time, Tiki Farm as well as Disney Feature Animation, Dr. Seuss, and James Bond franchises. Brinkley relocates…
GameHouse President Matt Hulett has a new post on his blog, Startup Whisperer. The Future of Gaming Consoles is Here (Duh) points out that mult-use devices such as tablets and mobile phones are on the rise as the most popular gaming platforms, while traditional console gaming is on the decline. Check out the full post at Startup Whisperer.
Announcing the first all-you-can-play casual game subscription service for Mac PC gamers love our FunPass service, so we’re pulling out all the stops to extend our unlimited gameplay service to Mac users too. Finally, Mac users can jump into the fun and play a growing catalog of casual games through a subscription-based service from GameHouse. FunPass members get access to their favorite PC and Mac titles including Delicious – Emily’s Childhood Memories, TextTwist 2, Bejeweled…
Why Facebook IPO Indicates Opportunities to Diversify in the Games Market Join the conversation: @Matt_Hulett News about Facebook’s IPO hit headlines like a meteor striking the earth, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg is now charged with raising $5 billion in capital and plans to offer public stock options beginning this spring. Facebook’s IPO news has already created a massive ripple effect from Silicon Valley to Madison Avenue and Wall Street, as the world expects one billion…
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…
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…
To Commemorate, Google and GameHouse Offer a Dime per Download for the COLLAPSE! Mobile Game Google will end 2011 with a major milestone for its Android phones: 10 billion app downloads. To commemorate, the teams at Google and GameHouse are offering a dime per download for GameHouse’s popular mobile game — “Collapse!” “COLLAPSE!” is an award-winning game that puts your matching skills to the test, and will appease your craving for nonstop gaming entertainment. Download…
And what you need to know about her LIFE Magazine assembled the world’s greatest gamers for a photo shoot that would become the center spread of their 1982 Year-In-Photos edition. The photo pictured 16 gentlemen between the ages of 14 and 30 years old, and fulfilled every typecast associated with gaming. Together, these men, including Billy L. Mitchell, who would later be named the Gamer of the Century, became the faces of video gamers for…
iPad may have won our hearts, but for many people, the launch of Kindle Fire has won our wallets. At $199, the new tablet from Amazon, Kindle Fire, hit store shelves this week with a wide array of entertainment experiences from books to video games. GameHouse is one of the launch partners bringing popular casual games such as Doodle Jump, Collapse!, Tiki Towers 2, and more to Kindle Fire. In fact, as part of the…
