EA: Apex Legends has 8-to-10 million players a week
Apex Legends may not have the 50 million monthly players that it launched with back in March, but it still has a huge audience....
Tobii Spotlight’s foveated rendering can cut VR graphics load by 57%
Tobii’s gaze-tracking hardware for VR headsets is getting some serious software enhancements, the company announced today, in the form of full support for foveated...
PlayStation is benefiting from subscriptions and live services
PlayStation 4 is nearing the end of its life. The next PlayStation is coming soon as Sony Interactive Entertainment has already confirmed. That has...
Electronic Arts’ core franchises delivered while Apex Legends reloaded
Electronic Arts had a strong first quarter of its fiscal 2020. The publisher generated $743 million in revenue, which beat Wall Street’s expectations. That’s...
Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes reaches 80 million players since 2015 debut
Electronic Arts revealed today during its Q1 financial year 2020 earnings report that Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes Q1 has now reached 80 million...
D&D’s Christopher Perkins delves into dark, horrible secrets of the mind flayer
GamesBeat: While mind flayers do have gods, they don’t really “pray” or “worship” these beings, right? Perkins: Mind flayer “gods” exist. What they are...
PlayStation 4 is the fastest to ship 100 million home game consoles
PlayStation 4 continues to lead the thriving console gaming market. Sony Interactive Entertainment’s gaming box surpassed 100 million consoles shipped to retailers. It reached...
Siggraph 2019 offers a sneak peek into what’s next for AR, VR, and CG
It’s hard to believe that the computer graphics conference Siggraph is celebrating its 46th birthday this year, but the annual event certainly doesn’t show...
Nintendo Switch sales hit 36.87 million consoles, matching PS4’s lifetime pace
Nintendo revealed during its fiscal quarter earnings report today that it has now sold 36.87 million Switch systems. The Switch debuted on March 3,...
Why monetization and marketing need to work closer together
Traditionally, ad monetization and user acquisition have been run by discrete teams at most major game companies. Theoretically, this makes sense. The two teams...