Playtech taps Funtactix’s Hollywood know-how for its casual games biz
Getting a movie license is one of the major ways to succeed in the mobile gaming business, and publisher Playtech has brought in some...
Overwatch is the best team shooter ever made
When I first saw Overwatch, I thought it was a Team Fortress 2 clone. You have the distinct classes, the team- and objective-based combat, and...
PlayStation Plus gives subscribers NBA 2K16 and Gone Home in June
Sony is coming with a big lineup of games for its PlayStation Plus subscribers next month. If you’re a member of Sony’s premium PlayStation...
Microsoft bans corporations from using Minecraft as a marketing tool
Minecraft is a huge deal for a generation of kids, and it is a great way to reach that young, crucial demographic. But marketers...
Hands-on with the zany Just Cause 3: Mech Land Assault DLC
Square Enix and Avalanche Studios are unveiling the next installment of downloadable content for the Just Cause 3 silly shooter game that debuted last...
How Just Cause 3 added goofy mechs to a silly, explosive game
Just Cause 3 debuted last fall as a kind of Grand Theft Auto for tropical island warfare. It was perhaps the goofiest of shooters,...
Atari will enter IoT market with new connected devices in partnership with Sigfox
Atari announced today that it is plunging into the Internet of Things with a line of connected objects that will debut later this year. Just...
Intel launches 10-core Broadwell-e processor for gaming and VR
Intel is shipping a new chip, the Intel Core i7 processor Extreme Edition (formerly code-named Broadwell-e) today for its target market of PC gamers...
Microsoft Games pioneer Ed Fries spends 3 months fixing Gotcha, the first color arcade game
Ed Fries was one of the pioneers of video games at Microsoft. He took over Microsoft’s game business in 1995 and moved it into...
Berlin’s Aeria Games specializes in taking Asian games to the West
You may not have heard of Aeria Games, but it has grown into a 300-person mobile and online game publisher in Berlin based on...