Play Ventures raises $135M for second fund to invest in game startups
Play Ventures has raised $135 million for a second fund to invest in game startups. The Play Ventures Fund II will have $135 million...
8BitDo Pro 2 review — It’s still the best third-party controller
Video games are in a good place when it comes to controllers. The Xbox Series X/S, DualSense, and Switch Pro controllers are all mostly...
Roblox is so lucrative that it has attracted professional studios like Gamefam
Roblox is one of gaming’s many quiet giants. Or, if you have teenagers or children, perhaps it is not so quiet. The long-running user-generated...
Sensor Tower: Mobile game spending hit $22.2B in 2021 Q1, up 25% from 2020
Consumers spent $22.2 billion on mobile games in 2021’s first quarter, according to market analyst Sensor Tower. This is up a massive 25% from...
Aglet unveils NFT collections for sneakerheads
Aglet has taken a step further toward its “sneakerverse” — a metaverse for sneaker superfans. Aglet said today it is using blockchain-based nonfungible tokens...
The DeanBeat: Chasing away the cheaters in Call of Duty: Warzone
Nobody likes cheaters. I was playing Call of Duty: Warzone recently with my friend Anthony Palma, and he took down another player. That player...
Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest debuts in June with Day of the Devs
Geoff Keighley’s Summer Game Fest, an industry-wide online celebration of video games, will return in June, and it will include Day of the Devs,...
Sensor Tower — Crash Bandicoot: On the Run dashes to 27 million downloads
Crash Bandicoot: On the Run has garnered more than 27 million downloads, according to market analyst Sensor Tower. The free-to-play mobile game had its official...
Analogue Pocket delay gives me more time to buy random handhelds from China
I love that Analogue is delaying its Analogue Pocket handheld again. This is a good thing to me. It means that I can spend...
Our very serious obituary for Mario
Once it’s midnight, Nintendo is going to execute Mario. After today, Super Mario 3D All-Stars will disappear from retail and digital store shelves, and...