Games Developer Conference 2016 breaks attendance record
Tens of thousands of game industry workers descended upon San Francisco last week. The 2016 Games Developer Conference broke attendance records for the event...
Halo 5 veterans create First Strike Games studio
Three veterans from Halo 5 and video game agent Jeff Hilbert have teamed up to create First Strike Games, a new Seattle studio focused...
Halo 5: Guardians will get massive co-op battles with Warzone Firefight multiplayer
Halo 5: Guardians is getting a big new multiplayer feature dubbed Warzone Firefight, which will enable teams of up to eight players to work...
World of Tanks publisher Wargaming talks about accelerating change in the game business
Victor Kislyi, the chief executive of World of Tanks online game publisher Wargaming, says we live in interesting times. There’s so much change happening in...
How Unity is pushing VR and better 3D graphics with its game engine
Unity Technologies showed off some high-end graphics demos created with its Unity 5 game engine last week at the Game Developers Conference. That shows...
Miitomo’s fun image-creation tool should fuel discovery of Nintendo’s first mobile app
Nintendo has the most downloaded app in one of the world’s biggest markets for mobile gaming, and it’s easy to see why it’s spreading — thanks...
Day of the Tentacle Remastered makes this silly classic shine for a new age
Released in 1993 back in the glory days of PC adventure games (titles that focused on point-and-click-based puzzle-solving), Day of the Tentacle was one of the funniest pieces of digital entertainment.
Terminator and Gronk roll over Paper Mario, Tom Clancy, & the UFC in February’s game ads
It was a slow month in terms of spending for the mobile and video game industry, but that didn’t slow fan engagement with the...
Why ‘crunch time’ is still a problem in the video game industry
Kate Edwards likes to do cosplay (costume play) as characters like Thor, a valkyrie, Indiana Jones, and Brienne of Tarth from Game of Thrones. That may give...
How Disney is rebooting its mobile game business
Disney’s game business has been somewhat static. In 2011, Disney was ranked at No. 15 on the list of the top public video game...