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...
Nielsen: Games account for 10% of gamers’ leisure time
[Updated 6/1/2016: Fixed it to note that games take up 10% of leisure time for gamers, not all consumers] Games of all kinds now...
The rise and fall of Nintendo’s Miitomo: Massive downloads don’t mean success
As we outlined in our previous post in April, Nintendo’s first mobile app, Miitomo, debuted and quickly shot to the No. 1 rank on...
Call of Duty: Black Ops III helps veterans find better jobs with in-game card pack
Activision Blizzard said Friday that it is expanding its in-game program that supports the Call of Duty Endowment and enables veterans to find high-quality...