GamesBeat Summit 2019: Announcing the next four speakers
January is at its midway mark, GamesBeat Summit 2019 is closer than ever, and it’s time to introduce four new great speakers: Ted Price,...
Xbox Game Pass will add We Happy Few, Shadow of Mordor, Saints Row: The Third, and more
Microsoft announced more new titles coming to Xbox Game Pass in January. These include the creepy dystopian game We Happy Few, the Tolkien-inspired open-world...
The Division 2’s closed beta starts February 7 on PC, PS4, and Xbox One
French video game giant Ubisoft announced that Tom Clancy’s The Division 2‘s closed beta starts on February 7. The title is coming on the...
SuperData: Digital games grew 13% to $119.6 billion in 2018; Fortnite earned $2.4 billion (updated)
Digital games and interactive media grew 13 percent to $119.6 billion in 2018, partly on the strength of Epic Games’ Fortnite, which itself generated...
Unity scraps TOS change in dispute with Improbable, schedules Reddit chat
Unity Technologies backed down on its previous stance in a dispute that erupted last week with SpatialOS platform maker Improbable and rival game engine...
Check Point finds flaw that could have enable hackers to break into Fortnite user accounts
Check Point said that its researchers discovered vulnerabilities in the massively popular online game Fortnite. The security software company notified Fortnite maker Epic Games,...
App Annie: Games made up 74% of consumer app store spending in 2018
Mobile users dedicated 74 percent of their app spending to games in 2018, according to the 2019 State of Mobile Report from mobile data and...
Harry Potter mobile game maker Jam City raises $145 million
Jam City, developer and publisher of the hit mobile game Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, has raised $145 million in funding. The money comes from JPMorgan Chase...
Pokémon Go dev raises $245 million in funding
Developer Niantic, Inc. now has a valuation of almost $4 billion after its latest funding round. The company raised $245 million in its Series...
Your game studio doesn’t have to survive to succeed
By this point, hopefully we’ve all laughed and moved past the idea that “just make a good game” is good business advice. However, it’s...