With new human augmentation event, Square Enix gets serious about Deus Ex in real life
Square Enix and CNN’s branded content studio, Courageous, have teamed up to create a documentary that explores the world of human augmentation. They are...
Former EA creative director Rich Hilleman joins Amazon Game Studios
Richard Hilleman, the former chief creative director at Electronic Arts, announced today that he is joining Amazon Game Studios. Hilleman had a long career...
Developer made Ascension VR to confront her fear of flying
Theresa Duringer is a afraid of flying. To cope with it, she designed a game that she can view and play with a Samsung...
Kabam teams up with Hasbro to make a Transformers mobile game (update)
Kabam and Hasbro have created a partnership to make a mobile game based on the Transformers franchise. San Francisco-based Kabam said it will make a...
GamesBeat University talks will be livestreamed at GamesBeat 2016
Gordon Bellamy, visiting scholar at the University of Southern California, has kindly agreed to emcee our GamesBeat University talks at GamesBeat 2016. Bellamy, who did...
GungHo looks beyond Puzzles & Dragons — to Japan’s gaming iconoclast
GungHo Online Entertainment is in an interesting phase of its business. The game studio is no longer part of Softbank, the giant Japanese telecom company....
How Illidan got his groove (and life) back for World of Warcraft: Legion
The World of Warcraft needs a hero, even if its maybe-crazy Night Elf with glowing green eyes. On August 30, Blizzard releases Legion, the sixth expansion...
Free DLC for indie games: financial suicide — or smart marketing?
In the dawn of the success of CD Projekt Red’s The Witcher 3 and its welcomed, arguably innovative, or perhaps retro attitude toward free...
China’s Giant leads consortium to buy Playtika for $4.4 billion
A consortium of Chinese companies led by Giant has agreed to pay $4.4 billion for Playtika, the social casino game company in Herzliya, Israel,...
3 ways Pokémon Go can make players happy with push notifications
Pokémon Go launched in the U.S. on July 17, and it has already become a cultural phenomenon. Developed by Niantic, it’s now the most-downloaded...