How mobile gaming has changed in the last 10 years
The mobile gaming industry is booming. Smartphones have become more affordable and the mobile gaming industry has overtaken PC and console as the biggest...
Essential app install formats: How Pocket Gems pushed ‘Episode’ to 3 million WAUs (VB Live)
With millions of competitors, how are the top game companies growing and acquiring high-quality users at scale? Pocket Gems has been working since 2009...
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare beta finally goes live after PlayStation Network troubles
Sony’s online gaming service went through some hiccups earlier today. Now it’s back up, and that means one of the biggest games of the fall...
PlayStation Network is down as Call of Duty beta starts (update: fixed)
Update: PSN is back up and running, and the Call of Duty beta is live. I hope you weren’t looking to engage in an...
Anki’s Cozmo robot is an amazing sentient toy, but the novelty may wear off
Anki has created an amazing toy in Cozmo, a cute robot toy that makes use of the company’s deep artificial intelligence research. It shows...
The DeanBeat: This player spent $2 million in a mobile game. Then he led a boycott.
Gree, the Japanese game company that owns mobile games such as Modern War, hit the gold mine with Stephen Barnes of Houston. The 59-year-old...
MaxPlay lays off almost all workers as game engine startup switches to licensing
When MaxPlay debuted its new game engine for the cloud era in 2015, it wanted disrupt the business of providing tools for game developers. But the company...
Xbox One outsold PlayStation 4 again in September
A slimmer PlayStation 4 wasn’t enough to slow down Microsoft’s momentum. Xbox One was the top-selling home console in the United States September, according...
Yo-Kai Watch movie comes to U.S. theaters … for just one day
Yo-Kai Watch: The Movie will play at theaters around the United States on Saturday, October 15 as part of a special engagement through movie-event company Fathom. This comes after Yo-Kai Watch 2, the role-playing game about capturing the spirit-like Yo-Kai creatures, hit 3DS September 30.
Hearthstone event at Blizzcon on November 4 could reveal the next expansion
Big Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft news is coming. Blizzard has released the schedule for its yearly fan event, Blizzcon, which takes place November 4...