The DeanBeat: The gaming world is flat, but you can tilt it in your direction
TOKYO – I’m third-generation Japanese-American. My grandparents came from Japan as farmers about 100 years ago. I considered it an honor to be able...
Blizzard fixes Hearthstone: Mean Streets of Gadgetzan pack bug and will compensate players
Your luck is terrible, but it’s probably not as bad as you think it is if you just finished getting an abnormal number of...
Wargaming tanks up its mobile arm with Boomlagoon acquisition
The publisher of World of Tanks further pushing into mobile gaming with the acquisition of the one of the studios that spun out of...
Transformers: Forged to Fight coming to iOS and Android in spring 2017
It’s time to transform and roll out … to fight a battle to save the multiverse. Kabam announced Transformers: Forged to Fight today. It’s...
Minecraft developer Mojang looks back on 5 years of the Pocket Edition as it prepares version 1.0
Minecraft: Pocket Edition came out five years ago, but it is actually only about to turn 1.0. Mojang is preparing to roll out the...
Pokémon Go leads list of Google Play’s top trending games of 2016
Looks like Pokémon Go was listening to the TV show’s lyrics: “I wanna be the very best. Like no one ever was.” It certainly...
How Montreal’s Behaviour Interactive moved up the food chain from outsourcing to making original games
Game developers usually go through an evolution, growing from a tiny amoeba to a complex organism. That’s the case with Behaviour Interactive, a 24-year-old game...
Hearthstone’s Mean Streets of Gadgetzan expansion is now live in the Americas
Gang up — the three criminal cabals from Gadgetzan are just waiting for you to make some new decks. Hearthstone released its fourth expansion...
Annapurna Pictures forms studio to bring storytelling of films like Her to video games
The Hollywood movie studio behind Her, Zero Dark Thirty, and Sausage Party is starting a video game division that will focus on what it...
PlayFab raises $3.1 million for back-end service for game developers
PlayFab announced it has raised $3.15 million in a second round of funding for its infrastructure for connected PC and mobile games. The company...