Call of Duty: Black Ops III drives strong sales for Activision Blizzard
Call of Duty: Black Ops III sales helped drive a strong first quarter for Activision Blizzard, with monthly active users up both quarter-over-quarter and...
Activision Blizzard beats Wall Street Q1 earnings expectations
Activision Blizzard reported earnings today that beat the expectations of Wall Street analysts during its first fiscal quarter ended March 31. And its stock price has...
DeNA reveals its Pokémon-like Monster Builder mobile game
We’re getting a pair of new Pokémon games for the 3DS later this year, but DeNA is hoping you’ll give its take on that genre...
Star Trek Online’s next expansion takes players back to the original series
Publisher Perfect World revealed Agents of Yesterday today, the third expansion for Star Trek: Online. It allows players to create a captain and command a ship in the same timeline as the original Star Trek series (you know, the one with Spock and Kirk from the ’60s). It launches this summer for PC.
The Legend of Zelda, Space Invaders, and Sonic highlight World Video Game Hall of Fame’s 2016 inductees
The new inductees for the World Video Game Hall of Fame are out, and they include the classic games Grand Theft Auto III, The Legend...
Star Wars: Commander gets a new competitive multiplayer mode
It may not be May the 4th anymore, but we’re not done getting new Star Wars content. The mobile Star Wars game Commander is getting a new...
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End is the conclusion that Naughty Dog’s landmark series deserves
Forget the pirate’s life. Yo ho, yo ho, it’s a Nathan Drake life me. Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End brings the digital adventurer to...
Zynga grows on mobile as Apple, not Facebook, becomes its biggest platform partner
The social game maker revealed its financial results for Q1 2016 today, with bookings at $182 million. That is above the consensus estimate of $162 million from analysts. It was also higher than Zynga’s own expectations of $150 million to $165 million.
Nexon chief Owen Mahoney thinks art is the solution to mobile gaming’s rising marketing costs
Making money from mobile gaming is expensive thanks to rising costs of acquiring users, but one company wants to subvert this by treating the...
How filmmakers are inventing the language of VR
Imagine you’re a filmmaker. Cinema is your craft, an art honed by more than a hundred years of brilliant ideas and happy mistakes. With...