Hoplon kicks off open beta for car combat title Heavy Metal Machines
Hoplon has launched the open beta for its rock-and-roll racing game Heavy Metal Machines on the PC. The title is a hard rock vehicular...
Fire Emblem: Heroes is ready to put Nintendo into the free-to-play spotlight
Nintendo might be setting up its investors with a nice gift before the launch of the Switch console: Mobile money from what so far appears...
Nintendo reports big gains from Pokémon games in December results
Buoyed by Pokémon game sales, Nintendo beat its financial expectations for the third fiscal quarter ended December 31, but overall sales are still lower...
Insomniac CEO Ted Price pummels Trump’s Muslim ban in YouTube video
Insomniac Games CEO founder Ted Price took a stand against President Donald Trump’s ban on travel from seven Muslim countries. While other game developers...
Watch how Nintendo, Sony, and Sega opened up the first E3 in 1995
The Electronic Entertainment Expo, a major annual trade show for the video game business, doesn’t seem like it is 22 years old. Or at least...
Namco founder, pioneer of Japan’s arcade industry, dies at 91
When I went to Japan in December, I spent some quality time in a Namco arcade. Japan still has a number of arcades, and many...
User acquisition costs drop in December — a pleasant surprise for iOS and Android publishers
The cost of acquiring a new mobile game or app users fell in November and December, according to mobile marketing firm Fiksu DSP. The...
Nexon acquires rights for Elsword Mobile game in Japan from China’s Kunlun
Nexon said that it has acquired publishing rights for Kunlun’s Elsword Mobile game in Japan. Tokyo-based Nexon said it will announce the launch date...
Brianna Wu appalled at FBI’s #GamerGate investigative report
The Federal Bureau of Investigation revealed a heavily redacted report on its investigation into the #GamerGate controversy, where female game developers and critics received...
World of Warcraft showcased at Computer History Museum
Blizzard Entertainment’s World of Warcraft has broken all the records in the history books for massively multiplayer online games. So it’s only fitting that...