Street Fighter V’s Yoshinori Ono has more energy than a Ryu fireball
The game industry is full of interesting real-life characters. Street Fighter V producer Yoshinori Ono is one of them. The charismatic caretaker of the...
Blade & Soul launches with 1M players in first week — MMOs are still a $11B yearly market
That didn’t take long. NCSoft’s Blade & Soul launched six days ago, and already, the publisher says 1 million people have played this massively multiplayer online role-playing game from South Korea.
Five Nights at Freddy’s World flees from Steam — and criticism
The latest entry in the Five Nights at Freddy’s universe is no longer on Steam. Developer Scott Cawthon has removed his Five Nights at...
Watch the Pokémon Super Bowl commercial right here
The Pokémon Company is celebrating the game’s 20th anniversary by spending a few million dollars on a commercial during the biggest sporting event in the...
Starbreeze plans a virtual reality arcade in L.A.
Payday 2 developer Starbreeze Studios said today that it will set up a virtual reality arcade in Los Angeles as part of a bid...
Esports market to grow 43% to $463M in 2016 and reach $1.1B by 2019
The global esports market is expected to grow 43 percent from $325 million in 2015 to $463 million in 2016, according to a new...
The Witness makes me question why I play hard games
I know this is a review and everything, but I really have no idea if I liked The Witness. Hopefully, I’ll figure that part...
Game-software revenues to grow from $90B in 2016 to $115B by 2020
Tech advisor Digi-Capital expects the game-software industry to grow 22 percent from $90 billion a year in 2016 to $115 billion a year by...
Keiji Inafune’s Mighty No. 9 delayed … again
Mighty No. 9 is still a work in progress. Mega Man creator Keiji Inafune raised nearly $4M on Kickstarter for his side-scrolling action game way...
Exploding Kittens doesn’t have enough bang as a mobile game yet
Exploding Kittens kaboomed its way to the top of the paid-apps category in its first few days on the Apple iTunes App Store. That was an...