Playco raises $100 million at $1 billion valuation for instant games across platforms
Meet one of gaming’s newest unicorns. Playco has raised $100 million at a $1 billion valuation for instant games over a wide variety of...
If the U.S. Post Office has an ally, it’s Duel2 and play-by-mail games
In these fast-moving times where nothing takes a break, there is one form of slow-motion entertainment that has endured: play-by-mail games. The genre refers...
PlayStation leads in TV ad impressions, but Square Enix is close behind
Gaming industry TV ad impressions saw an 87.71% increase from mid-August to mid-September, compared to the previous 30-day period. From August 16 through September...
Unity’s stock rises 32% in first-day trading to $18.1 billion value
Unity Technologies saw its stock price rise 32% to $68.88 a share in the first day of trading as it launched an initial public...
The RetroBeat: How Super Mario 3D All-Stars could have been better
I reviewed Super Mario 3D All-Stars, and while its three games are still a joy to play, it’s easy to be disappointed that Nintendo...
Super Mario 3D All-Stars is Nintendo at its worst
I don’t know what I was expecting, but it was more than what Nintendo delivered with Super Mario 3D All-Stars. This bundle is available...
Metacore raises $17.6 million from Supercell and launches Merge Mansion mobile game
Finnish mobile game company Metacore, formerly known as Everywear Games, has raised $17.7 million in funding from mobile gaming giant Supercell. It has also...
Ori and the Will of the Wisps comes to Switch
Microsoft came to the latest Nintendo Partner Showcase to announce that Ori and the Will of the Wisps is coming to Switch later today....
Monster Hunter: Rise comes to Switch on March 26
Capcom has revealed two new Monster Hunter games for the Switch during today’s Nintendo Partner Showcase. The first, Monster Hunter: Rise, comes out March...
PlayStation 5’s Demon’s Souls is not coming to PC (Updated)
Update at 3:40 p.m. Pacific time: Demon’s Souls is a PlayStation 5 exclusive. Sony pulled the trailer and told Kotaku that it added the...