Miitomo’s fun image-creation tool should fuel discovery of Nintendo’s first mobile app
Nintendo has the most downloaded app in one of the world’s biggest markets for mobile gaming, and it’s easy to see why it’s spreading — thanks...
Day of the Tentacle Remastered makes this silly classic shine for a new age
Released in 1993 back in the glory days of PC adventure games (titles that focused on point-and-click-based puzzle-solving), Day of the Tentacle was one of the funniest pieces of digital entertainment.
Terminator and Gronk roll over Paper Mario, Tom Clancy, & the UFC in February’s game ads
It was a slow month in terms of spending for the mobile and video game industry, but that didn’t slow fan engagement with the...
Why ‘crunch time’ is still a problem in the video game industry
Kate Edwards likes to do cosplay (costume play) as characters like Thor, a valkyrie, Indiana Jones, and Brienne of Tarth from Game of Thrones. That may give...
How Disney is rebooting its mobile game business
Disney’s game business has been somewhat static. In 2011, Disney was ranked at No. 15 on the list of the top public video game...
What to expect from virtual reality in 2016
Virtual reality is finally here and it’s better than we imagined. Large technology companies like Oculus, Facebook, Samsung, HTC, Valve, Sony, and (of course)...
PlayStation 4 & Xbox One adopting Nintendo’s handheld update strategy makes sense to analysts
Your Xbox One is obsolete. Your PlayStation 4 is junk. But if these consoles are starting to feel old, Microsoft and Sony may step...
Here’s why King gave away its 2D mobile game engine Defold
‘Tis the season of giving for game engines. King Digital Entertainment acquired the Defold game engine back in 2014 to make two-dimensional mobile titles....
How Diablo found inspiration in hockey, Star Wars, and X-Com
This year, the original Diablo turns 20 years old, and its creator talked about the gothic game’s creation during a talk at the Game...
Watch 25,000 units brawl on one battlefield in Ashes of the Singularity
Here’s one of the reasons why the upcoming real-time strategy (RTS) game Ashes of the Singularity requires a PC with a quad-core processor: It...