Star Trek: Fleet Command mobile game maker Scopely raises $200 million
Scopely, the maker of the popular mobile game Star Trek: Fleet Command and the acquirer of FoxNext Games, has raised $200 million in additional...
GDC organizers announce August dates for summer event
Informa Tech, the company responsible for the Game Developers Conference, is looking ahead after cancelling its March event due to the spread of the...
Sensor Tower: U.S. iPhone users spent about $54 each on games in 2019
U.S. iPhone users spent an average of about $53.80 on mobile games in 2019, according to a new report from Sensor Tower. That is...
Microsoft unveils DirectX 12 Ultimate with improved ray tracing
Microsoft is moving on to the next generation of its DirectX gaming APIs for Windows and Xbox. DirectX 12 Ultimate enables developers to unlock...
Sea of Stars is a gorgeous retro-RPG from The Messenger studio Sabotage
Sabotage Studios announced Sea of Stars today, a new role-playing game inspired by the 16-bit era. This is the same studio behind the excellent...
Mainframe Industries raises $8.3 million for cloud-native games
Mainframe Industries has raised $8.3 million to develop cloud-native games in a financing led by Andreessen Horowitz, with additional investment from Riot Games. The...
Robin Games raises $7 million for lifestyle gaming
Robin Games has raised $7 million in a seed funding round for what founder Jill Wilson calls “lifestyle gaming.” Such games are geared toward...
GamesBeat Decides: PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X specs spectacular
Sony and Microsoft have both revealed the tech specs for their upcoming next-gen consoles. On this week’s episode of the GamesBeat Decides podcast, editors...
Xbox Series X will launch holiday 2020 (updated)
Microsoft has created a new website for its upcoming console, the Xbox Series X, which reveals that the machine will be out this Thanksgiving....
iPadOS 13.4 lets iPads use trackpads — will apps and games catch up?
Apple spent most of the iPad’s first decade fighting to keep its tablets trackpad-free, a decision that left the otherwise superb platform with one...