Justin.TV Brings Live-Streamed Video Gaming Portal TwitchTV to the iPhone
In June Justin.tv launched one of its first verticals, TwitchTV, a live-streamed video game portal and community for gamers. The platform has since taken off in terms of usage, and today, TwitchTV is expanding to the iPhone. For background, TwitchTV features competitions of a variety of games and platforms with top gamers, tournaments and commentary. The platform aims to [...]
Read MoreAfrican-American Video Game Writers and Social Media: Evan Narcisse
Evan Narcisse’s bio describes him as a nerd-for-hire. His work as a freelance writer has appeared in Crispy Gamer, the Washington Post, the Atlantic Monthly, and Essence. Evan covers comic books, pop culture, and, of course, video games. Here are the insights he shared with us about his use of social media as a video [...]
Read MoreAfrican-American Video Game Writers and Social Media: Latoya Peterson
As we continue our on-going coverage of African-Americans in the video game industry (see our interviews with Joseph Saulter and Jamin Brophy-Warren), we present an email interview with Latoya Peterson. A self-described media junkie, Latoya writes about race, gender, film, television, anime, manga and other elements of pop culture. She has been quoted in the [...]
Read MoreAfrican-American Video Game Writers and Social Media: Jamin Brophy-Warren
Black Web 2.0 conducted an email interview with Jamin Brophy-Warren, the CEO and editor of Kill Screen Magazine. Kill Screen exists to challenge the notion that “gamers don’t read” and provides a well designed and high-quality print product that seeks to become the Rolling Stone of gaming. Jamin also writes for the Wall Street Journal, [...]
Read MoreAfrican-American Video Game Creators and Social Media: Joseph Saulter
Black Web 2.0 interviewed Joseph Saulter, the founder and CEO of EARI, a company that makes video games for communities that are often overlooked by mainstream gaming companies. He shared interesting insights into how he uses social media as a minority in the multi-billion dollar video game industry. What social media tools do you use? [...]
Read MoreIs an Android Gaming Center on the Horizon?
Speculation is increasing that Android is secretly at work building a formidable gaming center to compete with both the iPhone gaming center and the Windows 7 partnership with Xbox Live. A substantial investment in Zynga and recent purchases of companies like Slide and Jambool has the mobile online gaming world anticipating something great from the Android camp. Developers with access to the Android App Inventor beta have also noticed certain programs that are in development to assist apps in communicating with online gaming servers. Find out more details inside.
Read More
