Dojo Madness bags $4.5M for its League of Legends coaching app
Dojo Madness has raised $4.5 million to launch LOLSumo, a real-time coach that helps League of Legends gamers improve their esports skills. Berlin-based Dojo Madness wants...
Zynga makes Wizard of Oz join the match-3 parade
Just tap your heels together three times and say, “Match-3 is a sure thing, match-3 is a sure thing, match-3 is a sure thing.” Zynga...
Underworld Overlord will make you a VR dungeon master on Google’s Daydream
OtherSide Entertainment’s working on bringing back the feel of one of the 1990’s classic games — Ultima Underworld. And now it’s planning on an...
Rockstar Games has shipped more than 65 million copies of Grand Theft Auto V
Rockstar Games has shipped more than 65 million units of Grand Theft Auto V worldwide, according to an announcement by Take-Two Interactive today. Take-Two...
Google’s Daydream VR getting two games from U.K.-based nDreams
The British are coming … to Google’s new Daydream virtual reality platform for mobile. U.K.-based developer/publisher nDreams said today that it’s working on two original, unannounced...
Rockstar Games’ new projects will be ‘revealed soon’
It might finally be time for use to dig out our virtual saddles and gun holsters. In its financial report for fiscal 2016, publisher...
Take-Two’s fiscal year 2016 was stronger than expected thanks to XCOM 2 and Grand Theft Auto
Grand Theft Auto V hasn’t run out of gas yet. Take-Two released its financial results for the fiscal year 2016 today, posting a GAAP (generally accepted accounting practices) net revenue of $1.414 billion, up 31 percent from the previous year.
Electronic Arts chief creativer director Rich Hilleman leaves the company
One of Electronic Art’s oldest employees is no longer with the publisher. EA confirmed to GamesBeat that Rich Hilleman, who was serving as chief creative...
China’s NetEase is making a game for Google’s new Daydream mobile VR platform (update)
NetEase is one of the first major game companies to commit support for Google’s new virtual reality initiative. The Chinese publisher and developer announced that it...
DreamWorks Animation veterans create Spaces VR startup with $3M in funding
Entertainment veterans from DreamWorks Animation have started their own virtual reality startup with $3 million in funding. The Santa Monica, California-based Spaces is headed...