Free-to-play (F2P) is coming into its own. Indeed, some proponents of F2P believe in a few more years that revenues generated from the business model will actually surpass that of other more ...

Yesterday, GSN Games said a reorganization prompted "a small reduction" in the company's work force. The lost staff may be relatively small in terms of headcount, but it's considerably larger in terms ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Steve Meretzky, creator of numerous classic Infocom text adventures, has recently turned to designing online games. We had a chance to talk to him ...

During a recent interview with Gamasutra, Design VP of Playdom Steve Meretzky (pictured) claimed that social games have come a long way since three years ago, but social games aren't social enough. He ...

The classic graphic adventure game The Space Bar was released 25 years ago this week. And now the title is getting a second life on ZOOM Platform. The game from Phoenix, Arizona-based ZOOM comes ...

Tuesday afternoon four well-known games industry writers and designers got together to discuss the best storytelling gaming has to offer in a panel entitled "Stories Best Played: Deconstructing the ...

Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone. William Wordsworth, The Prelude Political conflicts, intercultural tensions and changes in society can occur in radical and very immediate shifts and ...

Steve Meretzky is kind of a crabby guy. Not gloomy or excessively negative, but rather in the world-weary way of someone who’s been around the block a time or two not by choice, but because he ...

In a public Facebook post today veteran games developer Steve Meretzky announced he was joining mobile games outfit King as VP of design, primarily to work on "a super-secret new project". Meretzky is ...