Twitch introduces communities to discover content and reach audiences
Amazon’s livestreaming platform Twitch is introducing Communities, a new way to discover content and reach the right audiences on the site. The new directory...
Castlevania gets Netflix show from ‘Planetary’ scribe Warren Ellis
Hollywood is determined to figure out how the hell to adapt a video game, and now Netflix is tapping Dracula to have a go...
Born from games, Skylanders Academy TV show gets extended for 3rd season on Netflix
Activision Blizzard said that its Skylanders Academy television show has been renewed for a third season. That’s a victory for transmedia as Skylanders started...
Apocalypse Now is finally going to get a video game
After a 38-year wait, fans of Francis Ford Coppola’s epic Vietnam War film Apocalypse Now will finally get a video game. Coppola’s American Zoetrope...
Warner Bros. picks up Avalanche team to make Cars 3 game for Disney
Warner Bros. and Disney are keeping it all in the family. Last year, Disney shut down Avalanche Software, the maker of the Disney Infinity...
Zelda: Breath of the Wild’s theme music is better than anything coming out of Hollywood
I can’t stop listening to the theme music from new Zelda trailer. Nintendo released one of the best game trailers ever earlier this month...
The new Call of Duty Zombies episode to feature ‘Clerks’ actor Kevin Smith
Call of Duty‘s first downloadable content map pack for Infinite Warfare arrives on the PlayStation 4 on January 31. And the Zombies co-op mode...
Ubisoft hires an Oscar winner for The Division movie: Traffic’s Stephen Gaghan
The Division is a massively multiplayer online shooter that takes place in a post-pandemic New York City, and the publisher announced in May 2016 that the game had 7.5 million player accounts on PS4, Xbox One, and PC.
Nintendo Switch specs: less powerful than PlayStation 4
The Nintendo Switch game console coming in March won’t be more powerful than Sony’s three-year-old PlayStation 4, according to sources familiar with the system. Two sources (who...
What PewDiePie’s hissy fit teaches us about YouTube
There’s been a lot written recently about how YouTube star PewDiePie—whose real name is Felix Kjellberg—is threatening to delete his hugely successful channel, and...