Magic: The Gathering — Arena is Wizards of the Coast’s answer to Hearthstone
And since Arena is going to be in a digital space, I wondered if this gave the designers come creative space in which to...
Songbringer is one designer’s procedurally generated ode to classic RPGs
Songbringer is an action role-playing game that’s hoping to clear the name of procedural generation. Nathanael Weiss, who developed the game under his studio...
Why triple-A devs are going indie (and why indies aren’t going triple-A)
The tools and money behind gaming are changing, and its giving developers a choice they haven't previously had.
Tenor lets developers put GIFs into augmented reality apps and games
Tenor is announcing a software development kit (SDK) for Unity and Apple’s ARKit developers, enabling them to integrate animated GIFs into augmented reality apps...
Maple Media has done 8 deals in 8 months to make mobile games more money
Maple Media raised $30 million to acquire a bunch of mobile apps and games in order to optimize them to make more money. And...
Taunt raises $1.75 million for esports fan competition platform
Taunt announced today that it has raised $1.75 million in a seed financing round to build an esports fan competition platform. It’s a kind...
Blizzard is turning the old ‘Tonight Show’ studio into an esports arena
Blizzard announced today that it is creating a state-of-the-art esports facility for live events in Los Angeles. The Blizzard Arena Los Angeles will open on...
No, Hearthstone doesn’t think its players are idiots
Blizzard Entertainment revealed major changes (aka nerfs) to five of Hearthstone’s most popular cards yesterday. Fans were calling for and expecting it to weaken...
Watch this 100-year-old man try out VR for the first time
Lyle Becker got his first peek at virtual reality inside a secret lab at Intel’s campus in Hillsboro, Oregon. The 100-year-old Becker embarked on...
L.A. Noire is coming to Switch, PS4, Xbox One, and HTC Vive
Think of a classic Rockstar game that you want to see brought to modern consoles. OK, L.A. Noire probably isn’t your first choice. But...