Roblox acquires PacketZoom to improve mobile game performance
Back in September, kids virtual world firm Roblox raised $150 million in funding. Now it’s going to spend a little of that. Roblox has...
Fortnite’s Android beta is now open
Epic Games announced today that the beta test for the Android version of Fortnite is now open, meaning you don’t need an invitation to...
Cities: Skylines’ next expansion, Industries, launches on October 23
Cities: Skylines announced its next expansion today, Industries. It is coming to the city-building simulator on October 23. It will cost $15. Cities: Skylines...
Fyber: In-app mobile advertising poised for growth
Fyber, a big ad monetization company, said a survey it commissioned shows that 77 percent of brands report that they have asked their media...
Intel: 90% of 5G data will be video, but AR gaming and VR will grow
A new report from Intel and Ovum lays out the companies’ expectations for the growth of 5G cellular networks over the next decade, and...
Skillz: Bigger screens dominate mobile esports competitions
Mobile esports platform Skillz said an analysis of over 800 million mobile esports tournaments showed that people competing on phones with larger screen sizes win...
How Call of Duty: Black Ops 4’s Zombies mode is social, deep, and customizable
GamesBeat: What kind of fiction is going on behind IX, the story there? Blundell: All I can give you is what we’ve shown so...
Dan Bunting interview — How Treyarch built battle royale into Call of Duty: Black Ops 4
Dan Bunting has worked at Treyarch for 15 years, and he picked a heck of a time to become the co-head of the Activsion-owned...
MLG cofounder Mike Sepso joins New York Excelsior Overwatch League team
Mike Sepso is an esports pioneer and a cofounder of Major League Gaming (MLG). And now he’s become an executive at the New York Excelsior...
Games aren’t power fantasies. They’re reality repairers
Let’s start with something simple but weird: Game-related purchases account for 75 percent of App Store revenue. That means we spend three times more...