Why Handy Games is working on 11 games for the Nintendo Switch
It may sound a little nuts, but Handy Games has gone crazy for the Nintendo Switch. The German company is developing 11 games for...
Axis & Allies creator Larry Harris is back with WWII tabletop game War Room
Back in 1984, Larry Harris released one of the most popular board games of all time, Axis & Allies. It sold millions of units...
Marvel Strike Force is FoxNext’s upcoming tactical RPG for mobile
FoxNext Games and Disney’s Marvel Entertainment are taking the wraps off Marvel Strike Force, a squad-based superhero role-playing mobile game set in the Marvel...
Pixvana raises $14 million for cloud-based mixed-reality storytelling platform Spin Studio
Pixvana, maker of the Spin Studio cloud-based mixed-reality storytelling platform, has raised $14 million in a new round of funding. Vulcan Capital led the...
Star Wars: Jedi Challenges hands-on — wielding a lightsaber in augmented reality
Disney wants you to be immersed in Star Wars this fall as The Last Jedi film comes out in December. And one of the...
Candy Crush Saga: 2.73 billion downloads in five years and still counting
Candy Crush Saga is the most popular mobile game in the U.S. after a dramatic comeback in the third quarter. As the mobile game...
The DeanBeat: The tragedy of the Star Wars: Battlefront II loot crates
Electronic Arts made a great game in Star Wars: Battlefront II. But it stepped in a pile of controversy by adding an unpopular monetization...
Zynga lets you show off your CSR 2 race cars with augmented reality
CSR Racing 2 has been popular as a mobile game because it offers car racing fans the fantasy of collecting and owning their own...
NCSoft will shut servers for MXM MOBA in January, just months after June launch
NCSoft created MXM (Master X Master) as a multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game to take on Riot Games’ League of Legends. And it...
Vivendi says it won’t make hostile takeover bid for Ubisoft in near-term
Media conglomerate Vivendi spent perhaps $683 million acquiring about a quarter of the stock of French video game publisher Ubisoft over the past year...