Discord raises $20M for voice comm app for multiplayer mobile games
Discord, the maker of a popular voice communications app for games, has raised $20 million in a round of funding headed by Greylock Partners....
PlayStation Network’s down for some gamers (update)
PlayStation Network isn’t working for everyone right now. It is down intermittently, which is preventing people from logging into Sony’s online gaming service. This is causing players to encounter errors when they go to boot up online multiplayer games like Call of Duty: Black Ops III or Destiny.
Platinum Games confirms Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan — here’s a trailer and more details
The Xbox online store leaked details of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan a little ahead of time, and now publisher Activision has released the official trailer, which you can watch below.
Games still dominated the iOS app store in Q4
Games dominate the revenue charts on the iOS App Store. That’s no surprise. Even as other non-game brands and product companies adapt to mobile,...
Helpshift’s automated customer support tools reach more than 1.3B devices
Helpshift, a customer relationship management (CRM) company focused on providing help in mobile apps, announced today that its customers are using Helpshift on more...
Sony combines network entertainment and PlayStation into a single business unit
Sony has reshuffled two of its major corporate divisions with the goal of improving service to consumers. Sony Computer Entertainment and Sony Network Entertainment...
Final Fantasy Explorers is a bland ‘My First Monster Hunter’
One of Final Fantasy’s strengths is how each game is different from the last. You may not care for Final Fantasy XIII, but it does...
Minecraft: Pocket Edition gets a beta update — here’s what new and different
Minecraft on iOS and Android is still well behind its PC and console counterparts, but it is slowly catching up. Developer Mojang updated the...
Street Fighter V’s Yoshinori Ono has more energy than a Ryu fireball
GamesBeat: Hmmm … you know, I guess I’m different from a lot of people, because when I play Street Fighter all I care about...
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.