Chartboost acquires Roostr to connect mobile games with YouTube influencers
Chartboost has created a marketplace for mobile-game developers to find players and make money. And now it wants to extend that with the acquisition...
No Assassin’s Creed in 2016 as Ubisoft admits the series is slowing down
While reporting its financial results for the third quarter of 2015-2016, publisher Ubisoft admitted that its Assassin’s Creed franchise is beginning to lose interest from consumers. It also confirmed that the franchise will take a break and not see a main series release in 2016.
Quantum Break is Microsoft’s latest weapon in linking Xbox One and Windows 10
Microsoft is giving all sort of goodies to anyone who buys the digital version of Quantum Break, a third-person shooter that allows the player...
Tera publisher’s new project is a real-time strategy game ‘for the rest of us’
If StarCraft is a bit out of your league, En Masse might have a solution. The publisher, which runs the massively multiplayer online role-playing game...
Total War Battles: Kingdom takes epic war strategy franchise to free-to-play mobile
Total War Battles: Kingdom will soon be able to find you wherever you play games. The free-to-play epic battle-strategy game from Sega’s The Creative...
Chukong spins SDKBOX services as a separate company [update]
China’s Chukong Technologies is spinning out its mobile services associated with its Cocos2d-x game engine as a separate company. Chukong makes and publishes its own...
The eyes have it: Eyefluence may have the answer to navigating AR/VR
A quick five-minute demo of Eyefluence‘s eye-tracking technology made me decide that it was one of the 10 best technologies of the the 2016...
Call of Duty and Dreamworks vets jump on the VR bandwagon
A new company has ambitious plans to tackle multiple forms of media. The Rogue Initiative, a new development studio planning to work on virtual...
China’s Locojoy partners with Taptica to drive downloads of new game
A popular Chinese studio is taking all the help it can get to make its new game a hit. Taptica, an advertising platform for...
FanDuel shuts down Florida game studio and lays off 55
FanDuel, the embattled daily fantasy sports company, has shut a game development studio in Orlando and laid off 55 people. The layoffs come at...