Unreal Engine gets native Nintendo Switch support
One of the industry’s most popular game-making tools is getting a wave of improvements as well as support for a major upcoming console. Epic...
HTC is working on a new kind of mobile VR headset
Smartphone maker HTC is working on a new kind of mobile virtual reality headset, according to a story from CNET. Chialin Chang, chief financial officer at Taiwan-based HTC,...
Clash Royale, Clash of Clans push Supercell to $2.3 billion in 2016 revenue
Supercell, the maker of hit mobile games Clash of Clans and Clash Royale, said that sales growth was flat $2.3 billion in 2016. That’s flat...
Overwatch with a GoldenEye 64 skin looks crazy fun
Torbjorn isn’t the strongest character in Overwatch, and I think that’s unfair. But for a buff, what if Blizzard looked back to an another...
Twitch viewers watched 292 billion minutes of livestreams in 2016
Amazon’s Twitch livestreaming service had a big year in 2016, and the company celebrated it by creating an interactive retrospective of the year that...
Ex-Sony Online chief John Smedley starts Amazon game studio after Kickstarter failure
John Smedley, the former chief of Sony’s online business, has joined Amazon to create a new game studio in San Diego, Calif. The move...
Let It Die slashes its way past 2 million downloads on PlayStation 4
A free-to-play game is finding success on PlayStation 4. Publisher GungHo Online Entertainment America and developer Grasshopper Manufacture announced today that the free-to-play hack-and-slash...
Plarium makes match-3 mobile game with Fox’s Rio animated characters
Mobile game publisher Plarium has partnered with Twentieth Century Fox to create Rio: Match 3 Party, a mobile game debuting this spring on iOS...
Pokémon Go gets 80 Gen 2 monsters from Gold and Silver in massive update
Nothing gold can stay, Ponyboy … well, nothing Gold (or Silver) can stay away from Pokémon Go, that is. The Google Maps-powered monster-catching location game is...
How to get a player to commit to your mobile game
For marketers of mobile games and apps, user acquisition is a lot like swimming in the dating pool. Smartphone users represent a vast population,...