Wargaming Mobile will publish titles from startup Gunslinger Studios
Gunslinger Studios and Wargaming Mobile are announcing a strategic partnership in which Wargaming, the publisher of World of Tanks, will publish Gunslinger’s mobile combat...
World Series of Poker: How Playtika’s Montreal team has kept the mobile game on top
Social casino games have become a $4.2 billion business, and Israel-based Playtika has about a quarter of the market. The company, which was acquired...
Assassin’s Creed: Origins — How Ubisoft created the art for the massive open world
Ubisoft created such a massive world for Assassin’s Creed: Origins, the latest open-world game set in the world of ancient Egypt. And one of...
For Honor: How Ubisoft created a new brand and genre
Shoot-em-ups are a popular genre in video games. But Ubisoft wanted to make a “chop-em-up” melee game, and it had to think hard about...
How CA Technologies is brewing startups within a big enterprise
I first met Otto Berkes when he was one of the founders of Microsoft’s Xbox team, alongside three other crazy Microsoft colleagues. They hatched a...
The DeanBeat: How Canada’s game industry is thriving, one Cuphead at a time
I spent a few days at the Montreal International Game Summit this week, where 2,600 game developers gathered to talk shop. It was, once...
Race for the Galaxy launches Brink of War expansion
Temple Gates Games debuted its take on the popular sci-fi card game Race for the Galaxy for mobile devices in May, and it launched its PC version of the...
Mixer relaunches streaming app on iOS and Android
Microsoft’s Mixer division is launching its Mixer livestreaming app for Android and iOS today. The company said the new app is the result of...
Glo raises $3 million from Alibaba, cuts deal for IMAX VR arcades
Glo has raised $3 million from Alibaba for its location-based virtual reality entertainment stations, and it has also licensed its GloStation technology platform to...
Survios jumps from shooter to VR music creation with Electronauts
Survios made its name in virtual reality with the 360-degree shooter Raw Data. Now the Los Angeles VR studio is unveiling Electronauts, a virtual reality music-creation...