Nintendo’s Miyamoto explains how Illumination won Mario movie rights
As part of the Question and Answer section of Nintendo’s investor call following its fiscal results briefing on February 1, someone asked Shigeru Miyamoto...
The DeanBeat: Vainglory and mobile esports grow up with 5v5 MOBA action
Riley “DNZio” Haghian hopes to make a living playing Vainglory. He brought home more than $20,000 in a recent world championship tournament, and he is...
Monster Hunter: World ships 6 million games faster than any other Capcom game
Monster Hunter: World is Capcom’s fastest hit in the publisher’s history, the studio announced on its Japanese site as IGN reported. The multiplayer action role-playing game has...
PlayStation Network is down yet again (updated)
You may have trouble getting online with your PlayStation device this evening as Sony’s online gaming service is down once again. Players around the...
Civilization VI: Rise and Fall review — loyalty has a price
My new favorite aspect of Civilization is watching my empire’s symbol flash under a city as it prepares to transfer its Loyalty from its...
Donkey Kong scorekeeper: Billy Mitchell’s defense ‘doesn’t make sense’
Embattled competitive gamer Billy Mitchell has broken his silence after a Donkey Kong fansite accused him of misrepresenting his high-score performances in the arcade...
Destiny 2 is Activision’s biggest PC launch ever
Though Destiny 2 was dethroned as the best-selling game of 2017 by fellow Activision release Call of Duty: WWII, it still set records when it...
Nvidia: Cryptocurrency mining boosted Q4 revenues
Nvidia chief financial officer Colette Kress acknowledged that cryptocurrency mining contributed to the solid sales of graphics processing units (GPUs) during the company’s fourth...
Blizzard’s monthly active users for Q4 2017 drop just a bit from 2016’s number
Blizzard Entertainment games combined had monthly active users of 40 million, according to Activision Blizzard’s financial results for its fourth quarter of 2017 While...
Call of Duty remains Activision’s top money faucet
Activision Blizzard is cashing in on the renewed popularity of its major first-person shooter game, Call of Duty. The military shooter surpassed $1 billion...