Forget Liam Neeson and Kate Upton — even the ‘worst’ Super Bowl game ad worked
The 15 second ad for Heroes Charge helped move the game up the download and grossing charts on iPhone.
War Thunder is latest game to suffer a cyberattack
Developer Gaijin Entertainment revealed that its game was struck by a DDoS.
Comedian Pete Holmes takes a gentler approach to hosting the DICE Awards
Holmes picks the comedian host torch back up for the DICE Awards following last year’s departure — gaming personalities Felicia Day and Freddie Wong hosted, breaking a streak that had comedians such as Jay Mohr and Chris Hardwick onstage for a number of years.
New Telltale CEO Kevin Bruner will craft more storytelling games with Minecraft and other secret projects (interview)
Telltale has honed its episodic story-based games with the "Game of Thrones," "The Walking Dead," and Borderlands properties.
Playsimo online game portal hits Mexico, inviting international companies to enter the $1.2B market
The new free-to-play gaming portal makes localization and monetization a lot easier.
Nvidia teases big gaming announcement at Game Developers Conference
Graphics chip maker chief says the announcement has been five years in the making.
Minecraft is by far YouTube’s most popular game
Newzoo released a list of the top 20 most popular games according to views received on YouTube videos. Newzoo got the info by continuously tracking over 4 million gaming-related YouTube channels. As you can see in the chart below, Minecraft was way ahead with 2.395 billion views in January.
Fifty Shades of Sony: PlayStation 4 owners dig BDSM more than Xbox One folk
And Android owners are a bit kinkier than iOS fans, too.
‘Star Wars: Rebels’ gets its own Minecraft skin pack
Microsoft bought Mojang, the company behind Minecraft, for $2.5 billion last September. Although the game is available for other platforms, including rival Sony’s PlayStation 4, exclusive content like this for Microsoft’s consoles is a benefit of the acquisition.
How sci-fi game maker Chris Roberts crowdfunded $72.3M from 750,913 supporters
Unbridled ambition for his new sci-fi universe helped. The more fans gave, the more he revealed.