Mobile video ad firm Vungle gets new CEO in leadership shuffle
Fast-growing mobile advertising firm Vungle today announced that its founder, Zain Jaffer, has taken a leave of absence for personal reasons. San Francisco-based Vungle said recently...
How I accidentally became a video game writer during the mobile boom
Back in 2006, rumors were swirling about Apple’s new iPhone, but most of us were still carrying around clamshell phones or old-school BlackBerrys. A...
Star Control classics hit Steam as Stardock launches reboot’s preorders
Publisher Stardock is preparing the return of its Star Control series. The studio acquired the license from the rubble of Atari’s 2013 collapse, and...
AdHawk’s tiny sensors could enable much smaller VR headsets and AR glasses
A Canadian company called AdHawk Microsystems is announcing that it has created small motion-tracking sensors that could be a boon for augmented reality glasses...
Facebook starts letting developers monetize Instant Games on Messenger
Facebook has launched advertisements to monetize a new type of popular casual game, dubbed Instant Games, which people play on the Facebook Messenger feed....
Google Play hits 8 billion new app installs per month, gets new developer features and bug bounty program
At Google’s annual Playtime developer event in Berlin and San Francisco, the company made a series of Google Play announcements. In terms of momentum,...
Star Wars: Battlefront II — director Mark Thompson digs into the Imperial single-player campaign
Mark Thompson is taking us to the Dark Side. The director for the single-player campaign of Star Wars: Battlefront II has created a story...
Star Wars: Battlefront II hands-on — the Imperial single-player campaign shows the ‘Gray Side’
Star Wars: Battlefront II is coming in hot, and Electronic Arts is revealing the first details of the single-player campaign where you play as...
Pokémon Go is celebrating Halloween with its first Gen 3 additions
Pokémon Go is holding another Halloween event, and this time it’s bringing in some new creatures to help celebrate the holiday. Niantic announced that Pokémon from...
Nintendo Switch outsells Sony and Microsoft heading into the holiday season
Nintendo’s Switch has claimed another month in the console sales race. The home/portable hybrid was the top-selling system in September in the U.S., according...