Twitch Prime is shaping the future of esports
When Amazon acquired Twitch in 2014, it sent a message to the general North American live-streaming industry that esports wasn’t just a legitimate source...
GTA Online’s ‘Battle Royale’ mode reveals why PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds works
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has sold 10 million copies since March, and its astronomical success was always going to lead to imitators of both the cheap...
Magic: The Gathering — Arena is Wizards of the Coast’s answer to Hearthstone
Magic: The Gathering fans have watched as first Hearthstone, then Hex, then Shadowverse, then Eternal, then The Elder Scrolls: Legends, and then Gwent all...
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...