MindCandy, perhaps best known amongst the gaming community for its pioneering Alternative Reality Game Perplexcity, has been very active recently, according to TechCrunch. MindCandy is now the home of Moshi Monsters, an educational virtual world aimed at...

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...

OK, so that’s perhaps a little grandiose. But Cities XL from publishers Monte Cristo is shaping up to a be a business-model-busting game. At heart, it’s a sim game in the vein of Sim City 4. Take...

OK, I admit that this is wild speculation. Last week (sorry for the delay, I’ve been busy), Atari announced that it had acquired Cryptic Studios. Cryptic have been successful in designing MMOs. They developed City of Heroes/Villains for...