MainStreaming raises $6 million to improve online game broadcasts
MainStreaming raised $6 million in funding to broadcast online games and other programming in the U.S. and Europe. The company will use the money...
Nintendo Switch Online’s vouchers turns $100 into two $60 games
Nintendo revealed a new voucher program available to Nintendo Switch Online members. The announcement came as part of a Nintendo Direct focused on the...
Super Mario Maker 2 adds story mode, multiplayer, and tons of new tools
Super Mario Maker 2 is going to be a beefy sequel. Today, Nintendo announced a bunch of new features for the game as part...
Pokémon Rumble Rush is an island-hopping, monster-capturing romp for iOS and Android
With the release of the (surprisingly fun) movie Detective Pikachu, Pokémon is once again in the popular consciousness. And license holder The Pokémon Company...
The RetroBeat: Blizzard gets serious about preserving its history
Warcraft turns 25 this year. World of Warcraft will also celebrate its 15th anniversary. Many of Blizzard Entertainment’s franchises are getting old, which is...
Unity unveils round 2 of Obstacle Tower Challenge for game devs
Unity Technologies has teamed up with Google Cloud Platform in January to create the Obstacle Tower Challenge, which is testing the limits of artificial...
Ubisoft pushes pirate game Skull & Bones to after March 2020
You’ll have to wait a little longer to sail and pillage on Ubisoft’s dangerous waters. While reporting its earnings for fiscal year 2019 today,...
Rainbow Six: Siege eclipses $1.1 billion in bookings and 45 million players
Ubisoft said today that Rainbow Six: Siege has grown to more than €1 billion ($1.12 billion) in cumulative net bookings since the game’s release...
Ubisoft CEO foresees the day when 5 billion people play games
Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot foresees the day when 5 billion people will play games. In the company’s earnings report today, he said that will...
Twitch Prime subscribers get 30 free days of Crunchyroll anime service
Twitch is announcing that its Twitch Prime members will get 30 days of free anime with a temporary subscription to Crunchyroll’s anime platform. Crunchyroll...