Pokémon Go and Mariners sale are the only bright spots in a weak Nintendo quarter
Nintendo reported earnings that missed expectations for the second fiscal quarter ended September 30. And it also significantly lowered its outlook for revenues for...
Blizzard experiments with 5-player raids for World of Warcraft
Today marks the beginning of a new experiment for Blizzard Entertainment in their massively multiplayer role-playing game World of Warcraft: five-player raiding. Warcraft dungeons have...
Why Nintendo’s stock fell after the massive hype for the Switch debut
Last Thursday, Nintendo finally introduced its next dedicated gaming system. On Friday, the company’s stock price took a plunge. But the market’s response to the...
How one leading publisher stays ahead of the LTV curve (VB Live)
How are the top-grossing app developers growing and acquiring high-quality users at scale? What channels and formats are the best fit? And how do...
Cuba’s self-proclaimed first indie game seeks crowdfunding
Forget about cigars — Cuba’s gaming business is about to open up. Josuhe Pagliery is a multimedia artist and the founder of Empty Head Games, an...
The Witcher 3’s Gwent card game launches closed beta test
You no longer have to traverse wyvern-invested lands to find a game of Gwent. The PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC can now bring...
Blizzard uses a Facebook Messenger chatbot to tease Hearthstone’s future
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft is doing an awful lot of teasing lately, and now the digital card game leader is using a Facebook Messenger chatbot...
Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview with Mail improvements and Narrator context awareness
Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview for PCs and phones. This build adds new features to the Mail app and gives the...
Shooter veterans form VR game studio Drifter Entertainment
Three veterans of first-person shooter games have formed Drifter Entertainment, a Seattle-based virtual reality game studio. The founders include Ray Davis, Kenneth Scott, and Brian Murphy....
Why Watch Dogs 2 creators chose to focus on San Francisco’s hacktivism
When Dominic Guay started working on Watch Dogs more than eight years ago, his mandate was to create a new brand for Ubisoft. The...