Top-downloaded games beat top-grossing ones on retention
It’s a big accomplishment for a mobile game to get a lot of players. And it’s still more difficult to keep them around. Hanging...
The crossover between car simulations and autonomous vehicles
Artificial intelligence is advancing fast and it is leading to strange bedfellows. One case is the interplay between AImotive, a maker of self-driving car...
Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy hands-on: This is one wacky remaster
Crash Bandicoot helped Sony cement the popularity of the original Sony PlayStation. And now the marsupial is coming back in a remastered version for the...
China’s $24 billion game market has a new competitor: Rastar Games
A Chinese entertainment company best known for car-based toys is making a big bid for gaming. Rastar Group announced today that it is starting a...
SuperData: Digital gaming hit $7.7 billion in April
Market researcher SuperData reports that April 2017’s gaming sales are down from March 2017, bringing in only $7.7 billion compared to March’s $8 billion....
Magikarp Jump gives Pokémon’s fishy weakling his own mobile game
Pokémon’s most pathetic creature is now a star. The Pokémon Company International released Magikarp Jump for iOS and Android devices today. The free-to-play game has...
How Unity convinced investors it’s worth $2.6 billion
From what we hear, a lot of investors in Silicon Valley wanted to get in on Unity Technologies’ $400 million funding round. Unity received...
Seriously takes the Angry Birds path with Best Fiends animated cartoon
Mobile game maker Seriously is taking a page from the strategy of its neighbor Rovio, the maker of the Angry Birds mobile games and film,...
Level up game dev with one platform for all stakeholders
Presented by Assembla Collaboration is taking over game development. As studios become increasingly global and start adopting agile project frameworks, silos are breaking down,...
Netflix uses its real NES app to reveal ‘Castlevania’ trailer
Konami hasn’t done a much with its Castlevania video game series in recent years, but you know you can’t keep Dracula down forever. Netflix just...