Organizers of the 2012 Independent Games Festival have issued a reminder noting that public voting for this year’s Audience Award closes February 19. As in previous years, voters can select any game chosen as a finalist in the festival, as…

Newsbrief: Electronic Arts’ online game destination Pogo has partnered with the (similarly named) in-flight internet provider Gogo to offer several of its online casual games to travelers on select U.S. airlines. Under this new partnership, travelers on all Gogo-equipped Alaska…

Newsbrief: After more than 13 years working for The NPD Group, Richard Ow, the company’s director of product development and client development for games, has resigned to join market research firm EEDAR. As EEDAR’s new vice president of sales and…

Second Life developer Linden Lab has acquired the experimental game studio LittleTextPeople, which specializes in exploring the emotional possibilities of interactive fiction. This marks the first acquisition for Linden Lab since former Sims developer Rod Humble took over as CEO…

Sony Online Entertainment announced Thursday that it is now accepting student applications for its 2012 Gamers in Real Life (G.I.R.L.) game design completion, which aims to bring more females into game development. The competition, now in its fifth year, will…