Mario Tennis Aces review impressions — a fighting game for everyone
Mario Tennis Aces is one of my biggest surprises of the year. I’ve enjoyed some of Nintendo’s sports games in the past, but those...
Sensor Tower: Fortnite earned $100 million in its first 90 days on iOS
Epic Games‘ hit game Fortnite has reached yet another milestone on mobile. Since its iOS launch in mid-March, it has generated $100 million in...
Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick: ‘I’m charged with making hard decisions’
Strauss Zelnick is very efficient with his answers. When I interviewed the CEO of Take-Two Interactive last week at the 2018 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3),...
Ghost of Tsushima: How U.S. dev Sucker Punch is making the ultimate samurai game
Can an American game studio make one of the best samurai video games ever? That’s the question for Sucker Punch as it develops Ghost...
Westworld iOS game launches June 21
HBO’s popular Westworld television show is getting a mobile game, and Apple just announced that it will be available for download on iOS on...
Pokémon Go finally gets trading and a friends list, rolls out this week
Niantic announced today that Pokémon Go will soon be getting two big features: Pokémon trading and a friends list. These have been requests from...
Marketing-driven revenue from mobile apps has grown 80% since 2016
Marketing-driven revenue from mobile apps has grown 80 percent since 2016, according to a new report from mobile attribution and marketing analytics firm AppsFlyer...
How Nintendo approached E3 2018: quality, esports, and immediate gratification
It was time that Nintendo held a big show at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) and revealed a lot of new games. But this...
How Darrell Gallagher plans to build Microsoft’s The Initiative studio in Santa Monica
Microsoft made news this week as it announced it was buying four game development studios and opening a fifth. That’s part of the company’s...
Let’s Go Pikachu hands-on — the Pokémon version of a bunny slope
Before I played Pokémon Let’s Go Pikachu at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) this week in Los Angeles, I was worried this reimagining of the...