Categories Posted inin Business Doom creators John Romero and Adrian Carmack to make shooter Blackroom Posted byby Dean Takahashi April 25, 2016 5 min John Romero and Adrian Carmack were two of the original creators of Wolfenstein, Doom, Quake, and the first-person shooter genre of games in the... Continue Reading 5 min
Categories Posted inin Business Super Mario RPG was originally a lot more like Final Fantasy Posted byby Mike Minotti April 25, 2016 1 min Super Mario RPG is a Super Nintendo classic, but it used to be a pretty different game. YouTube channel Did You Know Gaming has... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End newest trailer gets the adventurer’s blood pumping Posted byby Mike Minotti April 25, 2016 1 min May 10 can’t come soon enough for Uncharted fans. That’s when Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End comes out for the PlayStation 4. It’s one... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business Berlin’s TreasureHunt debuts zany Boomie Blast arcade mobile game Posted byby Dean Takahashi April 25, 2016 2 min TreasureHunt, a Berlin-based game developer, is hoping to level up casual mobile games with the launch of its Bomberman-like Boomie Blast title on iOS... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Supercell stakes a beachhead in the mobile gaming clash in Iran (updated) Posted byby Jason Wilson April 24, 2016 6 min Update, 2:15 p.m. August 31: Cafe Bazaar says there are numerous errors in this guest post: Supercell is left with 61 percent of revenues... Continue Reading 6 min
Categories Posted inin Business ESL says it still wants to work with YouPorn’s esports team Posted byby Jeff Grubb April 24, 2016 2 min One of esports’ biggest organizations doesn’t want to ban one of its rising teams, but it says it doesn’t have much of a choice... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Unity’s David Helgason on the open-versus-closed Windows debate Posted byby Dean Takahashi April 24, 2016 3 min David Helgason, cofounder of Unity Technologies, and Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, are rivals in the game engine business. But they have similar... Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Business How esports can learn from its traditional sports teams and broadcasters Posted byby Jason Wilson April 24, 2016 4 min The global esports market will grow to $463 million this year, according to Newzoo’s latest Global Esports Market Report. By 2019 the report says... Continue Reading 4 min
Categories Posted inin Business Some Xbox Live features down and causing errors Posted byby Jeff Grubb April 23, 2016 1 min You may run into some troubles with your Xbox One today. Xbox Live is experiencing some errors today, according to Microsoft’s status website and... Continue Reading 1 min
Categories Posted inin Business Unity’s David Helgason on game design, VR, and mobile’s future Posted byby Dean Takahashi April 23, 2016 13 min David Helgason cofounded Unity Technologies in 2003 to make a game engine that could help democratize game development. Over more than a decade, he... Continue Reading 13 min