Thunder Fleet is Chinese mobile game studio Kingnet’s first foray into the West
Hard to starboard! Chinese games developer Kingnet Technology announced that its mobile naval game Thunder Fleet will be its first title released for Western markets....
Bright Box uses realistic video games to train its self-driving car retrofit kit
Bright Box is unveiling a self-driving car retrofit solution with a neural network that learns extreme driving through computer games. Bright Box’s Remoto Pilot emphasizes safe, reliable road/lane following...
Israeli game pioneer Tacticsoft raises $1 million for hardcore mobile games
Battle Dawn maker Tacticsoft has raised a round of $1 million in funding from venture capital firm London Venture Partners and Israeli angel investor...
Candy Crush Saga adds 2,000th level to celebrate 1,000,000,000,000 games played
Developer King has released the 2,000th level for Candy Crush Saga, its hit, free-to-play puzzle game for mobile. Candy Crush Saga, which originally came out back in 2012, is one of the biggest hits ever in the $36 billion mobile business.
The NBA is esports’ greatest ally
Traditionalists will tell you gaming doesn’t qualify as a sport. They’ll tell you it will never catch on like football or baseball has on...
Ubisoft acquires Ketchapp, a mobile studio criticized for cloning puzzle game Threes
The French publisher announced today that it acquired mobile game studio Ketchapp. Ubisoft did not disclose the details of the deal, but the purchase will go through during the company’s fiscal third quarter that ends December 31.
Square Enix’s Flame x Blaze is a mobile MOBA that will take on Vainglory
I know you thought the deluge of League of Legends clones from big publishers was over, but you thought wrong. Square Enix is working...
NBA Live on mobile gets new graphics and user-interface for 2016-2017 season
Electronic Arts announced today that it has updated its NBA Live mobile game, available as a free-to-play app for iOS and Android devices. While it gets Live ready for the upcoming 2016-2017 NBA season, the update also improves the game’s graphics and introduces a new user-interface.
Beyond Good & Evil 2 might be back from the dead
Michel Ancel, the creator of the Rayman franchise over at publisher Ubisoft, posted a picture today on his Instagram that looks like concept art for a Beyond Good & Evil game, as spotted on the video game forum NeoGAf. Beyond Good & Evil was a cult favorite action-adventure game released in 2003.
Cloud gaming firm LiquidSky raises $4 million from Samsung and tech leader Scott McNealy
Cloud gaming startup LiquidSky has raised $4 million in funding from Samsung Next Ventures, Sun Microsystems cofounder Scott McNealy, and former AOL Time Warner executive...