PTW’s Side will acquire sound and music studio Vibe Avenue for $1.46M
PTW‘s Side division has acquired Vibe Avenue, an award-winning interactive music and sound studio, for $1.46 million. The Montreal-based studio will be rebranded as...
Exploring Warcraft Rumble’s road to release
Blizzard has already had a busy year with the launch of Diablo IV (and, you know, that whole getting acquired by Microsoft thing), but...
Find shelter and community in games | The DeanBeat
It’s a sad time for the world. Just when there was a chance of a thawing in the Middle East, the awful attacks in...
Microsoft completes its acquisition of Activision Blizzard King
After several months of grappling with federal investigations, Microsoft has closed its deal to acquire Activision Blizzard King. The console manufacturer officially acquired the...
How AI and other tech are accelerating game development | Steven Collins interview
The acceleration of technological change is evident everywhere, and it’s benefiting games in unseen ways. In 2016, King had only 2,000 levels for Candy...
UK authorities give final approval for Microsoft’s $68.7B acquisition of Activision Blizzard
The United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority gave final approval today for Microsoft’s $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard. The CMA issued a statement...
Gamers seek relaxation, favor mobile devices and watch game streams | Tinuiti
Gamers are playing for relaxation. They’re favoring mobile devices, and many of them are watching game livestreams. The results come from a survey Tinuiti...
Hexacore aims to scale Web3 mobile game Pocket Space for big audiences
Back in July, Hexacore raised $3.5 million to propel the high-quality Web3 mobile games that have potential to scale to big audiences such as...
Movella launches indie creation program to help creators impacted by actor’s strike
Movella launched its character digitization software Obskur as an all-in-one broadcasting application built in Unreal Engine 5 to make it easy for streamers to...
Gamers over 43 outnumber Gen Z on mobile per survey of 200K+
A new survey of 207,500 North American mobile gamers conducted by in-game advertising experience platform Monetizr is challenging demographic stereotypes. Players over 43 —...