Quake Live launched yesterday and has had over 100,000 registrations in the first six hours. When I joined, the queue to get onto the servers was 5,000. It peaked at around 20,000 and then the servers gave...

Quake Live will launch its open beta today, paving the way for FPS action in an ordinary browser. Quake Live has the potential to revolutionise first person shooter gaming in much the same way that the original...

According to TechCrunch, Quick Hit has raised $8 million to fund the development of a free Flash-based football game. (That’s American football, not soccer.) The company has raised a total of $13 million to date (a Series...

OffRoad Velociraptor Safari has spawned a sequel on the iPhone. I’ve blogged before about this game, written on the Unity engine, which showcases how developers are making cool 3D games in a browser, but the revenue model...

In a blog post today, Roman Nouzareth announced that Cafe.com had sold digital distribution specialist Boonty to Nexway. Boonty was the original business of Cafe.com, founded in 2001 to offer digital downloads of premium games. The plan...

I’m sorry to bang out about Unity, I really am. But back when I was a callow youth, I remember a moment when I thought the computer game business would change forever. It was an ECTS in...

Casualgaming.biz reports that Pepsi Sweden has launched a 3D music game to promote Pepsi. It’s a 3D flash game that allows you to play the guitar like a rock god (or not, in my case), and the...