The madness approaches: ChinaJoy trade show will draw 250K gamers to Shanghai
The big trade show kicks off next week, and GamesBeat will be there.
Creators of Talking Tom app unveil multiplayer bubble shooter Mars Pop
The New Age multiplayer game is targeted at casual players.
Episodic adventure game Life is Strange passes 1 million sales
Square Enix’s episodic adventure game, Life is Strange, has passed 1 million sales, according to IGN. Three of five planned episodes are available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, and PC. Episode 4, Dark Room, comes out on July 28.
Nolan Bushnell talks educational games, the future of jobs, and Five Nights at Freddy’s
The Brain Rush CEO recently spoke with me on the difficulty of selling educational games to educators, the impending job loss from technology, and how the games industry is like a theme park.
Fallout Shelter was the No. 4 most downloaded iOS game in June
One of the biggest console and PC gaming franchises has delivered success on mobile.
Party Hard, the award-winning game about mass killing, gets an August release date
Stab your noisy, partying neighbors and try not to get arrested.
South Korea’s Netmarble sinks $130M into SGN, ‘fastest-growing major mobile studio in U.S.’
A South Korean mobile games firm that wants to expand in the U.S. starts a beautiful friendship with a U.S. company that wants more Asian air time.
Street Fighter V beta doesn’t support PlayStation 3 fighting sticks, Capcom confirms
Confusion in the fighting-game community leading up to tomorrow's Street Fighter V beta test ends in disappointment for those hoping to use their PlayStation 3 fighting sticks.
Daybreak Game Company’s John Smedley steps down as chief executive officer
Just a few weeks after Lizard Squad took down Daybreak servers, one of the pioneers of massively multiplayer online games and the free-to-play strategy on home consoles is leaving his company.
Super Smash Bros. pros at Evo ‘loved’ Hyperkin’s new GameCube-style Wii U controller
Hyperkin's latest attempt to update the past has won over a tough crowd.