Activision Blizzard promises change while dodging employee demands
During today’s investor call, Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick promised that change would come to the troubled publisher. However, he and other leaders failed...
Activision Blizzard creates new mobile studio for Call of Duty
Activision Blizzard has created a new mobile game studio for the Call of Duty franchise. The studio is working on an unannounced title for...
Activision Blizzard’s Q2 2021 bookings drop 7% to $1.92B
Activision Blizzard reported earnings today that beat Wall Street’s and its own expectations with 19% revenue growth to $2.29 billion for the second quarter...
Q&A with Never Forget Games: A new studio model empowering developers
Presented by Wildlife Studios We recently were fortunate to speak with gaming industry veterans Ray Mazza and Michael Duke who currently head up Never...
Unique Network will provide NFT platform for UN climate program
The United Nations is getting into the hot category of blockchain-based nonfungible tokens, or NFTs. Unique Network announced that the UN has selected its...
Amber gets a new CEO as it goes global with game dev outsourcing
Former Keywords Studios executive Jaime Gine will become the new CEO of Amber, a game development services firm based in Bucharest, Romania. Former CEO...
Beep-Beep: Bandai Namco is launching a Star Wars R2-D2 Tamagotchi
Bandai America unveiled its first collaboration with Lucasfilm: a Star Wars R2-D2 Tamagotchi virtual pet toy. That means your favorite droid from Star Wars will...
8BitDo launches new Xbox media remotes
The new generation of gaming consoles are great at playing games, but they are also excellent media devices. And peripheral manufacturer 8BitDo is launching...
US Cyber Games and TikTok turn cybersecurity into an esport
Cybersecurity is a big international priority, and to get more people into it, the U.S. government and industry are turning it into an esport....
Plarium buys Finland’s mobile studio Futureplay to expand into casual games
Plarium’s games have 390 million midcore mobile and PC players, and now it is expanding into the casual sector with an agreement to buy...