Take-Two beats guidance with $711.4M in bookings, down 29%
Take-Two Interactive reported revenue for its first fiscal quarter (second calendar quarter ended June 30) today that beat its own and Wall Street’s expectations,...
8BitDo launches new Xbox media remotes
The new generation of gaming consoles are great at playing games, but they are also excellent media devices. And peripheral manufacturer 8BitDo is launching...
US Cyber Games and TikTok turn cybersecurity into an esport
Cybersecurity is a big international priority, and to get more people into it, the U.S. government and industry are turning it into an esport....
Niantic recruits Oculus’ Dan Morris to run developer relations as it ramps third-party content
Pokémon Go creator Niantic is gearing up to recruit more developers to its next-generation augmented reality tools using its Niantic Lightship platform. And today it...
Nvidia is tracking more than 8,500 AI startups with $60B in funding
Nvidia is tracking more than 8,500 AI startups through its Inception AI startup program. Those companies have raised more than $60 billion in funding...
99math raises $1M to boost edtech gaming platform
Estonian startup 99math has raised $1 million to boost its edtech math gaming platform aimed at making math fun. The 3-year-old 99math has a...
Plarium buys Finland’s mobile studio Futureplay to expand into casual games
Plarium’s games have 390 million midcore mobile and PC players, and now it is expanding into the casual sector with an agreement to buy...
#1ReasonToBe: Tales of women game developers in emerging regions
The #1ReasonToBe panel has had a strong legacy at the Game Developers Conference. This year, it featured seven women from different parts of the...
Nintendo and Sony are playing different games when it comes to TV advertising
Nintendo flat-out dominated video game national TV advertising for the first half of 2021. But depending on your programming of choice, you may not...
5 ways to build the mobile gaming metaverse
It’s pretty hard to move anywhere in the world of games without bumping into someone talking about the metaverse. Supposing you’re not familiar with...