Need for Speed reboot offers fun, even if its always-online is just crass commercialism
The Need for Speed franchise, which turned 18 this year, has become older than some of the players who’ll buy it. Unfortunately, this latest reboot might...
World of Tanks developer Wargaming helps Twitch rival Hitbox with $4M funding round
Hitbox, a European startup that can stream gameplay at 4K resolution, has raised $4 million from World of Tanks developer Wargaming and others to...
Games are riding high in Apple TV App Store as Top Charts reveal early trends (update)
Correction 1:13 p.m. Pacific: Beat Sports is in the top spot for Paid and Grossing apps. We have corrected the error that stated it...
Activision buys Candy Crush Saga publisher King for $5.9B
One of the biggest publishers of traditional games in the world now also owns one of the biggest mobile publishers. Call of Duty, World...
Marvel Puzzle Quest gets fired up with Jean Grey’s Phoenix
When a comics publisher needs to give its books a boost, it often promotes a big in-world event. Now, game developers are using the...
The App Store is burying some Apple TV apps — and developers are fuming
One of the big innovations with the new Apple TV is that it has full app support, but some early supporters this device are feeling...
Windows 10 adoption passes 25% on Steam
Valve updated its Hardware & Software Survey today for October, and it revealed that more than one in every four gamers on Steam is...
Call of Duty: Black Ops III is getting modding and map-making tools on PC
The Call of Duty community will have the capability to help the next game in the series grow in ways the developer never predicted....
Piracy is a big problem for premium iPhone and iPad games — much more than you realize
For example, 60 percent of Monument Valley installs on iPhone and iPad were not paid for. I’m not a newcomer to the game business, so I know that most of those pirated downloads wouldn’t translate to sales, if somehow we could stop piracy.
Tencent, Sony, Microsoft, and EA show that the multiplatform strategy — console, PC, and mobile — is golden in 2015
The industry is making plenty of money these days. Games market research group Newzoo today released its list of the top 25 public game...