Japanese mobile hit Puzzle & Dragons reaches 10M downloads in North America
A trio of games make the bulk of the money from the lucrative Japanese mobile app market, and one of those is continuing its...
Battleborn is a fun blend of MOBA and shooter, but it buries its potential
Battleborn strides confidently into a fight I don’t think it will win. Each market it’s trying to enter is crowded. Multiplayer online battle arenas...
Microsoft celebrates 4 years of Minecraft on Xbox with free content
Minecraft on the Xbox hit an anniversary, and Microsoft wants to give you a gift to celebrate. The Xbox 360 version of Minecraft turns...
Mario smashes blocks in Minecraft: Wii U Edition in free May 17 update
Mario does love destroying blocks, so I guess this makes sense. Nintendo revealed today that Mario-themed content is coming to the Wii U version...
Capcom’s net sales increased 20% thanks to Monster Hunter
The Japanese developer and publisher revealed its financial results for the fiscal year ending on March 31, 2016 today, and it revealed that net sales for the company rose 19.8 percent from last year to 77,021 million yen ($711 million). Operating income was up 13.7 percent to 12,029 million yen ($111 million).
N3twork’s Neil Young takes a second stab at mobile gaming greatness
Neil Young has had many lives in gaming. His latest is as the CEO of N3twork, a company that started as an interest-based social...
Vlambeer’s Rami Ismail shows why speaking out on behalf of indies pays off
Vlambeer has only two people, but the Dutch indie game maker has managed to draw outsized attention to itself during its six years of...
Why Unity’s John Riccitiello loves mobile ads and fears VR’s gap of disappointment
At Unity Technologies, chief executive John Riccitiello sees a sea of games and game startups streaming through doors. Unity was founded in 2003 to...
Lost Reavers impression: This Wii U exclusive is good … but only if you like bad games
By nearly every measurable standard, Lost Reavers — a free-to-play, online-only, multiplayer action-adventure title from Bandai Namco and exclusive to the Wii U — is a subpar, repetitive, and badly crafted game. But even bad games can be somewhat worthwhile.
Nvidia launches Pascal-based consumer PC graphics chips, 360-degree photo art, and 3D audio for VR
Nvidia confirmed that it is launching a new generation of consumer PC graphics cards based on its Pascal architecture. The company unveiled the graphics processing...