Pokémon Go dev raises $245 million in funding
Developer Niantic, Inc. now has a valuation of almost $4 billion after its latest funding round. The company raised $245 million in its Series...
How Epic is empowering smaller studios to harness influencer marketing
It’s tough for small studios to get attention for their games. Even as someone who plays and thinks about games a lot, I don’t...
How Valve is changing Steam in 2019
Valve Software is finally facing some major challengers in the PC gaming space, and it is planning a number of updates to keep its...
Rocket League has cross-platform play on everything after Sony joins the fun
Fans of vehicular soccer on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC can now all play together. Developer Psyonix revealed today that Rocket...
Minecraft’s cats, pandas, and thriving Marketplace partners
The Minecraft Team at Microsoft has built a burgeoning Marketplace. And for the last several months in a row, it has worked to make...
Epic, Improbable create $25 million fund to transition devs away from Unity
Unity found itself at the center of a controversy today, and now competitor Epic Games is turning up the heat. Unity is cutting off...
Unity and Improbable’s beef gets spicy and strange in dueling blog posts
Earlier today, Unity Technologies blocked Improbable’s SpatialOS online-gaming tools from accessing the Unity game-dev engine. This has left developers reeling because many of them...
GameShell DIY handheld is a great way to play retro games
Updated on February 6: I have updated this review after receiving a working GameShell from ClockworkPi. My original device had a broken component, and...
AMD’s speedy Radeon VII GPU is proving Nvidia’s point
AMD announced its new Radeon VII video card today. It’s a $700 GPU that may have similar performance to Nvidia’s RTX 2080, which ranges...
The Division 2 comes to Uplay and Epic Games Store — but not Steam
Ubisoft is the latest gigantic publisher to avoid the Steam marketplace for its PC games. And the company is getting some help from its...