Categories Posted inin Gameplay How Fnatic’s esports victories led it into hardware Posted byby Dean Takahashi December 1, 2018 12 min Sam Mathews and Anne Mathews founded Fnatic as one of the pioneering esports organizations in 2004. Over 14 years, its teams have competed in...
Categories Posted inin Business Two months running, PlayStation dominates first place in gaming industry’s most-seen TV ads ranking Posted byby Jason Wilson December 1, 2018 2 min In the last 30 days, Sony-owned PlayStation edged its lead with a third of all industry TV ad impressions, while Nintendo extended its market...
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Mojang dev spurs Minecraft players to ask for Oculus Go version Posted byby Jason Wilson December 1, 2018 1 min For the most part, Gear VR and Oculus Go share almost the exact same content library, but there’s one glaring omission on Go’s side:...
Categories Posted inin Business Jam City lays off a number of game developers Posted byby Dean Takahashi December 1, 2018 2 min Fresh off the acquisition of two games, casual game publisher Jam City laid off a number of employees on Friday. It isn’t clear yet...
Categories Posted inin Gameplay GamesBeat Decides 104: Cheap nylon bags and the FTC Posted byby Jeff Grubb December 1, 2018 1 min The GamesBeat Decides podcast is back to talk about all of the games and news happening over the last week. That includes a check-in...
Categories Posted inin Gameplay The rise of esports as a spectator phenomenon Posted byby GamesBeat December 1, 2018 4 min In October 1972 at Stanford University, the first known video game competition took place. A handpicked list of the best Spacewar! players at the...
Categories Posted inin Gameplay Epic delays Fortnite’s account-merging tool to 2019 Posted byby Jeff Grubb November 30, 2018 2 min If you are waiting for the chance to bring together your Fortnite items from the PlayStation 4 version and the other versions together under...
Categories Posted inin Business Sensor Tower: Black Friday was biggest day ever for U.S. mobile game revenues Posted byby Dean Takahashi November 30, 2018 2 min People spent an estimated $55.8 million on mobile games in the U.S. App Store and Google Play on November 23, making Black Friday 2018...
Categories Posted inin Business NPD: U.S. video game spending up 24% to $9.1 billion in Q3 2018 Posted byby Mike Minotti November 30, 2018 1 min Consumer spending on video games in the U.S. during Q3 2018 (July to September) reached $9.1 billion in the U.S., according to The NPD...
Categories Posted inin Business Shards of Infinity deck-building cyberpunk game goes digital in 2019 Posted byby Dean Takahashi November 30, 2018 3 min Stone Blade Entertainment and Temple Gates Games are bringing the deck-building cyberpunk game Shards of Infinity to digital platforms including iOS, Android, and Steam....