Konami adds an insurance microtransaction to Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
Konami is taking inspiration from the world of free-to-play games by adding an new paid-for insurance scheme to Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain....
Nielsen predicts the top-selling games of holiday 2015
Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops III is expected to be the No. 1 multiplatform game of the holiday season, according to the Nielsen...
Ubisoft acquires the studio that made The Crew racing game
Ubisoft has purchased French game studio Ivory Tower, the maker of The Crew racing game. The price of the deal wasn’t disclosed. The founders...
VTech’s InnoTV is a video game console with training wheels
Get your kids addicted to video games early with VTech's InnoTV
The esports craze will generate $1.8B a year by 2020
It’s no secret that esports, or competitive video gaming, has become big. The question is how big. Colin Sebastian, analyst at R.W. Baird, estimates...
Destiny is getting a new in-game currency you can buy with real-world money
Destiny sure seems like a game built for microtransactions, and that’s probably because it was. And today, developer Bungie finally revealed how that will...
This is what the planet Sullust looks like in Star Wars: Battlefront
It’s almost time to blast the crap outta some Stormtroopers in a galaxy far, far away. The upcoming Star Wars: Battlefront shooter from publisher Electronic...
An insider’s take on monetizing free-to-play games
From a monetization perspective, the greatest strength of the free-to-play mobile games model is its flexibility. The challenge of convincing people to pay for...
Super Mario Maker is down for maintenance tonight
Someone hand Nintendo that hammer from Donkey Kong, because it needs to do some work on its Super Mario Maker servers. The engineers at...
Minecraft developer teases ‘secret feature’ that’s ‘like Mario 64’
Minecraft is never finished, and one of its developers is looking at a Nintendo classic for inspiration. Minecraft: Pocket Edition developer Tommaso Checchi at Mojang...