Ubisoft winds down development on Space Junkies
It would seem like last-ditch efforts to bolster Ubisoft’s Space Junkies have fallen flat. An update last week marked the end of development of the zero-gravity...
Gaming hot topics debate: loot boxes, addiction, parental advice, esports hype, and store wars
We had a raucous but intelligent debate about video game hot topics at the recent GameDaily Connect event in Anaheim, California. Under the lights of...
How Zynga looks for the right game companies to acquire
When Zynga sold its San Francisco headquarters for $600 million in May, the social mobile game company received a lot of fresh gunpower for...
How a seasoned investment team looks at esports hype
There’s a lot of hype in esports. But there’s also a lot of growth. Lots of investors have jumped on the bandwagon in the...
Why NASCAR raced into esports in 2019
In many ways, NASCAR feels like a good fit for esports. The views from the cockpit of a race car can be thrilling. It’s...
Facebook ‘evaluating options’ for out-of-warranty Rift CV1 cables
UploadVR has heard from a number of concerned owners of the Oculus Rift CV1 — Facebook’s first consumer-oriented PC-based VR headset released in 2016...
IFA 2019 highlights: Amazon Fire TV Cube, LG Dual Screen, and Huawei Kirin 990 5G
IFA, or Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin, began humbly in 1924 as an international radio exhibition. Since then, it has grown into one of the largest...
Akamai: Fortnite ransomware scams should force developers and gamers to think about security
The game industry has long been a target for cybercriminals, and so it was no surprise in the past couple weeks to see the...
Munich’s Zeuz offloads multiplayer infrastructure to ‘backend badasses’
Munich’s Zeuz wants to be the “backend badass” of games. That means it tackles the issues related to keeping an online multiplayer game operating...
Xbox rolls over Nintendo to lead a sleepy August for gaming industry TV spend
The summer slump for gaming brands continued in August, with the industry’s estimated total spend coming in around $3.6 million, down from July’s $6.2...