Gillette and Twitch round up esports influencers in gaming alliance
Procter & Gamble’s Gillette brand and Amazon’s Twitch livestreaming service have formed the Gillette Gaming Alliance, a team of five Twitch streamers from around...
2K Silicon Valley’s official studio name will be 31st Union
Call of Duty veteran Michael Condrey started a new game studio temporarily called 2K Silicon Valley in early 2019, and now the studio has...
Atari acquires Wonder, a hybrid mobile gaming and entertainment platform
Atari is acquiring the assets of Wonder, a gaming company that created a hybrid gaming platform for Android mobile devices. It’s a bittersweet moment...
Supercell’s off year: revenues of $1.56 billion and profits of $577 million
Finland’s superstar mobile gaming company Supercell reported before-tax profits of $577 million on revenue of $1.56 billion, down from 2018 profits of $635 million...
Amber opens support studio in Mexico’s Guadalajara tech hub
Guadalajara has a new studio working on video games. Amber, which refers to itself as a full-service game-development agency, is expanding to the Mexican...
Microsoft: VR is big on Windows, but Xbox would need ‘a bunch of work’
Microsoft’s Windows Mixed Reality initiative may have brought multiple VR headsets and a substantial quantity of VR software to the PC platform, but the...
IronSource launches ad-based game studio Supersonic Games
IronSource has long helped games and apps become more popular through its ad monetization tricks. But now it’s going into publishing and development with...
Enterprise VR startup ForwardXP forms game division and hires art director
ForwardXP announced that it has created a new division, Forward Game Studios, and hired a new studio art director Justin Thomas. The Dallas-based enterprise...
THQ Nordic opens Nine Rocks Games in Bratislava to create survival sim
THQ Nordic has a new studio in Bratislava, Slovakia called Nine Rocks Games. This team plans to begin work on an unnamed “survival/shooter” game...
Tencent invests in Spec Ops: The Line studio Yager
Tencent is making another big move in the gaming space. The Chinese megaconglomerate is investing an undisclosed amount of capital in Berlin-based game studio...