Versyv’s RiddleVerse awards cash for solving ‘un-Googleable’ riddles
Gaming startup Versyv is unveiling RiddleVerse, a skill-based game that offers cash prizes for people who can solve riddles. The twist is that the...
Turner’s Eleague will use Faceit to manage its tournaments
Turner announced today that it will use it Faceit, a matchmaking and tournament organization tool, for its new Counter-Strike: Global Offensive esports competition, Eleague....
Game academy exhibit opens at The Strong Museum
Sometimes, it’s good to take play seriously. That’s why The Strong Museum has dedicated a new exhibit to the game industry’s professional academy, know...
Skylanders Battlecast launches on iOS, Android in $1.2B digital card market
Skylanders established the $4 billion toys-to-life business, and parent company Activision Blizzard leads the $1.2 billion digital card game market with Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft....
Watch Conan O’Brien’s hilarious Overwatch game session with Game of Thrones stars
Overwatch is launching tomorrow as Blizzard’s latest online team shooter game, and it just scored an awesome marketing boost with TV show host Conan...
Burnout creators find excitement — and fear — with their first indie, Dangerous Golf
Three Fields, three values Roberts and Ward laid out their team’s design philosophy. It’s simple, and it’s one that anyone who makes games would...
Fraud is mobile gaming’s $6.3B problem — and publishers need to solve it
A gaming studio can easily pay 10 times its development budget on acquiring players, and the frightening truth is that companies are flushing a...
Why Turner is bullish on esports
One of the biggest names in cable television is getting into esports, and it think it can do a better job than current leagues....
‘The story is false’: ESPN, Riot Games deny $500M League of Legends esports TV deal
Earlier today, a story broke from esports news site PVP Live claiming that ESPN is in talks to spend $500 million for League of...
Pac-Man 256 comes to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC with multiplayer
This is all part of Bandai Namco’s continuing efforts to let smaller developers like Hipster Whale and its co-studio, 3 Sprockets, use beloved properties like Pac-Man to generate as much income as possible from the $99.6 billion gaming industry.