The Sims 4’s audience grows 35% from 2017
Electronic Arts’ The Sims 4 continues to go strong, thanks to content updates that add fluffy friends and changing leaves. As part of its...
EA’s stock drops 6% as it signals slower quarters and fewer games ahead
Electronic Arts‘ stock price fell 6 percent in after-hours trading as the big video game publisher signaled that it wasn’t as bullish about the...
Jeff Minter interview: Tempest 4000 VR plans, tricky levels, and curry text explained
Jeff Minter has made great games for decades, but his reboot of Atari’s 1980 arcade game Tempest made him an international icon — and...
HTC answers ‘death of VR’ stories with record Vive sales
A blog post from HTC's Vive team says that "news of the so-called death of VR comes once a year and is greatly exaggerated," then rebuts the claims with a surprising new detail: Vive headsets recently sold out while experiencing record-breaking sales.
Star Trek Online warps into Discovery
Perfect World Entertainment and Cryptic Studios announced today that Star Trek Online is starting a new saga this fall based on the latest show...
Ni no Kuni II gets free content ahead of paid DLC
Bandai Namco today revealed downloadable content plans for its Japanese role-playing game, Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom. This includes a free Adventure Pack...
The IndieBeat: Tehran Game Convention shows global politics won’t stop gaming’s growth
The nonprofit Iran Computer and Video Games Foundation (IRCG) has wanted to bring international game developers to Tehran for over a decade, and it...
Sleep Tight aims to rule bedtime shooters
The developers at We Are Fuzzy was once a bunch of kids who feared the monsters under their beds. But now they’ve created a...
Banner Saga 3: How a small team created an epic RPG trilogy
Most game companies would kill to have the kind of output Stoic has. The indie developer is on the verge of releasing its third huge game in six years, and it’s already starting to prepare for its next project.
ProjectMQ wants to help you find indie games
Twin brothers Marcus and Malcolm Howard have spent the last five years working on ProjectMQ, a multimedia hub to help people find upcoming indie...