Newzoo: Esports could hit 380 million fans and $906 million in revenues in 2018
Global esports revenues will grow 38 percent to $906 million in 2018 and further grow to $1.65 billion by 2021, according to a new...
Influential uses Watson AI to help brands find influencers
Influential has launched its Social Intelligence platform to find influencers for brands with the help of IBM Watson’s artificial intelligence. The idea is to...
Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 845 heralds powerful standalone VR/AR headsets with eye and body tracking
Qualcomm has revealed its Snapdragon 845 Xtended Reality (XR) platform for both mobile virtual reality and augmented reality mobile headsets. The new platform will...
Sledgehammer’s founders leave Call of Duty studio for new roles at Activision
The founders of Sledgehammer Games, Michael Condrey and Glen Schofield, are resigning from their posts as co-presidents of the Call of Duty studio, and they...
Empires & Puzzles maker Small Giant Games raises $41 million for mobile titles
Finnish gaming companies have a strong record of on mobile, and the latest example is Small Giant Games, which is announcing today that it...
Qualcomm partners with Hatch for cloud-based mobile games service
Hatch Entertainment wants to create a cloud-based games-on-demand service for mobile gamers, and it is announcing a big partnership today to make it happen...
Newzoo: Nintendo could reap billions from subscriptions, digital sales, and mobile
Nintendo had spectacular growth in 2017, with revenues growing 172 percent to $9.2 billion from a year earlier. That’s good enough to push the...
Tangelo Games is targeting social casino games at Spanish-speaking players
We wrote about Vicenç Martí back in 2012 when he won the Who’s Got Game competition at our GamesBeat 2012 conference. He was running Akamon,...
Rainbow Six Siege Operation Chimera hands-on — 25 million players get new ways to die
Ubisoft is taking the wraps off of its Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege expansion, dubbed Operation Chimera. That could very well get the game’s...
How Machinima plotted its strategic rebranding across platforms
Warner Bros.’s digital video site Machinima rebranded this week as it makes a bigger push to expand beyond its YouTube roots to all the new platforms...