Vietnamese gaming and messaging firm VNG plans U.S. IPO
(Reuters) — Vietnamese online gaming and messaging firm VNG Corp said on Tuesday it has signed a preliminary agreement with U.S. bourse operator Nasdaq...
The emerging legal battle over video game streaming rights
Esports advertisers, consumers, brands, investors, and athletes are congregating around streaming game content, competing for the revenue it generates. Juniper Research reports that esports...
Ultima Online vets aim for emergent MMO gameplay with Legends of Aria
Most massively multiplayer online role-playing games take their cues from World of Warcraft: lots of quests and storylines that the designers mete out to...
Ranking the best of ParadoxCon
When I first started covering Paradox games six years ago, they were a developer of complicated strategy games with much love in their niche...
Nintendo Switch and Pokémon bolster GameStop’s first quarter
GameStop reported $2.05 billion in sales today at the end of its first quarter of 2017, exceeding expectations due to the high sales of...
Stugan brings in 15 teams for its 2017 game accelerator class
It’s into the woods again with Stugan, a Swedish game accelerator that’s in its third year. Stugan announced its 2017 participants earlier today, which...
SuperData: Digital gaming hit $7.7 billion in April
Market researcher SuperData reports that April 2017’s gaming sales are down from March 2017, bringing in only $7.7 billion compared to March’s $8 billion....
Level up game dev with one platform for all stakeholders
Presented by Assembla Collaboration is taking over game development. As studios become increasingly global and start adopting agile project frameworks, silos are breaking down,...
SteamWorld Dig 2 wants you to help write the game’s text
Image & Form Games is hoping the community will steampower its latest Ambassador Challenge contest with enthusiasm for the SteamWorld universe. The studio’s latest challenge is to devise a...
Xbox Game Pass launches for Gold members, hits June 1 for everyone else
Starting today, Microsoft’s new gaming subscription service Xbox Game Pass will be available to all Live Gold members though all other users will have to...