Mobile games hit $34.8B in 2015, taking 85% of all app revenues
Games generated approximately 85 percent of mobile app market revenue in 2015, representing a total of $34.8 billion across the globe, according to a report on...
Studio chief wants players to show their assassination creativity in Hitman
Assassins are modern anti-heroes, doing the dirty work of their corporate or government overseers. If the jobs is done right, then the assassin will...
Hitman reboot takes ‘assassination tourism’ to new heights (hands-on)
Hitman is in its 16th year, but the stealth assassination game is going through a major reboot. Like Lara Croft with the 2013 reboot...
Sweden’s Stugan game accelerator gets its first mobile game launch
Stugan, the mobile game accelerator in Sweden, gets its first official game launch today with the unveiling of Prism. Prism is an iOS puzzle...
The esports industry has a lot to learn from the daily fantasy sports mess
DraftKings and FanDuel are capping off what’s been nothing short of an astonishing NFL season for daily fantasy sports. These companies hit the ground...
Nintendo makes big promises about profits for its mysterious NX and smartphone business
The Wii U and 3DS are limping to the end of their console lives, and publisher Nintendo knows it. President Tatsumi Kimishima minimized the...
Why Nintendo thinks electric toothbrushes are a key to its future
Fewer children are getting their first introduction to video games through Nintendo devices, and the publisher is turning to some interesting alternatives to fight that trend....
Rez and Lumines developer’s iOS puzzle-RPG is coming West
Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s Eighteen, a puzzle role-playing game taking place in a dream world, is coming to the U.S. after originally releasing in Japan for iOS and Android. The U.S. version is coming from publisher GameSamba, which also worked on mobile games like Star Trek: Alien Domain.
The best Final Fantasy hits mobile before Steam (hint: It’s IX)
The best Final Fantasy has a new platform to call home. The Square Enix role-playing game classic Final Fantasy IX is available now for...
Microsoft starts publicly sharing Windows 10 release notes
Microsoft today launched a dedicated page for keeping track of Windows 10’s release notes. To see the latest features, improvements, and changes the company...