Black Eyed Peas and Zynga send holiday social-distancing message for #PlayApartTogether campaign
Zynga has teamed up with the Black Eyed Peas musical group to help keep us safe during the holidays. As the pandemic hit earlier...
How Riot Games is gunning for its second big esport with Valorant
Riot Games spent a decade building League of Legends into a huge esports phenomenon. And with the first-person shooter game Valorant, the company hopes...
Hexagram hires Jamil Moledina as CEO for interactive storytelling platform
Hexagram, a maker of immersive experiences that go beyond ordinary video games, has named industry veteran Jamil Moledina as its CEO. Los Angeles-based Hexagram...
Spellbreak interview: The challenges and benefits of launching in a pandemic
Launching online games is not an easy task, and doing so during a pandemic throws bigger, nasty curveballs into the process. So when Proletariat...
DeepMind’s MuZero picks up the rules of games as it plays
In a paper published in the journal Science late last year, Google parent company Alphabet’s DeepMind detailed AlphaZero, an AI system that could teach itself...
Moon Active acquires Family Island mobile game maker Melsoft
Moon Active announced today the acquisition of the mobile game company Melsoft. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Melsoft has become a...
How Warframe maker Digital Extremes aims to thrive under Tencent
Tencent picked up a lot of game properties this month when it acquired Leyou Technologies, a Hong Kong-based game company, for $1.5 billion. Among...
Playtika’s IPO filing reveals $2.3 billion in revenues and $2.3 billion in debt
Playtika‘s filing for an initial public offering reveals key details about the mobile game company’s financial performance. The company’s social casino games, including Slotomania...
Blackstone will invest close to $400 million in mobile app marketer Liftoff
Financier Blackstone has agreed to invest in mobile app marketing optimization platform Liftoff. The companies aren’t saying the exact amount, but the total is...
Navi esports club launches ‘metaverse’ with DMarket in-game trading platform
Esports club Navi (also known as Natus Vincere, or “born to win”), is launching a new gaming portal, or “metaverse,” with the help of...