Epic Games’ Tim Sweeney to receive lifetime achievement award at GDC
As CEO of Epic Games, Tim Sweeney has been a graphics wizard and a leader of the game industry since the 1990s. And he...
The DeanBeat: 10 predictions for games in 2017
Every year I make wildly inaccurate predictions about the future of games, and that time has come again. I go through this exercise not...
Talking Tom maker Outfit7 confirms it has been sold to United Luck Consortium for $1 billion
United Luck Consortium has purchased Outfit7, the maker of the wildly popular Talking Tom mobile app, for $1 billion. The buyer is not actually...
Mail.ru Group acquires Warface publishing rights for North America and Europe
Starting next month My.com, the international branch of Mail.Ru Group, will take over publishing and operations in North America and Europe for Warface, an online multiplayer video game...
Tehran will host its first regional Middle East game conference
The Middle East is awakening to the opportunities in the $91 billion game industry. Iran will host its first business-to-business video game industry event,...
U.S. gaming industry earned $30.4 billion in 2016, up from 2015
2016 was a year of growth for the U.S. gaming industry. According to industry-tracking firm The NPD Group and the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), the...
2016 NPD: Call of Duty No. 1, Battlefield No. 2 on 2016’s list of best-selling games
2016 is over. Here are the games that made the most of the year. The NPD Group has released its list of the 10...
December 2016 NPD: Final Fantasy XV shows it has a new recipe for franchise’s sales
It was a good month for Final Fantasy and Pokémon, but video game sales continue to see overall declines. The video game industry generated $2.8...
ModDrop hopes to reignite interest in the Torchlight games through mods
The mod-sharing platform ModDrop said it has acquired the premier Torchlight modding community site, runicgamesfansite.com (RGF). The site boasts over 20 million mods downloaded...
Super Mario Run drops from U.S. top 50 grossing iOS apps (update)
Mario is slowing down to more of a trot. Super Mario Run has dropped out of the top 50 grossing iOS apps in the U.S., according to mobile app store market intelligence group Sensor Tower. The auto-running platformer is ranked at No. 52.