DICE Summit will dive into games for cars, VR, film, and storytelling
The organizers of the DICE Summit, the elite video game conference in Las Vegas in mid-February, are announcing 11 new speakers today to discuss the frontiers of...
Glu announces $7.5M investment in QuizUp developer ahead of TV show, may lead to a full acquisition
Mobile-game publisher Glu Mobile (Glu) has announced it’s investing “up to” $7.5 million in Plain Vanilla, the Icelandic game studio behind popular multiplayer trivia...
Steam is down for maintenance
It’s a short week, and that means Steam’s typical Tuesday maintenance is happening today. Valve is in its server room banging on stuff with...
Supposed Star Wars: Battlefront III prototype leaks online — playable on modded Xbox 360s
The lost sequel to developer Pandemic’s Star Wars: Battlefront II may have leaked online. Star Wars: Battlefront III, a shooter from the late 2000s from...
Warner Bros. disappoints PC players again with Mortal Kombat X DLC characters
This adds another mark against publisher Warner Bros.’ track record with the PC platform after it famously had to pull and refund the PC version of last year’s Batman: Arkham Knight after it suffered significant performance issues at launch.
Marmalade Technologies raises $5M to introduce more developers to its game-making platform
It’s easier than ever to start making a game, and one of the companies responsible for this democratization of development is getting an influx of...
Star Trek: Timelines is the best Trek game in years
The best Star Trek game I’ve played in a long time, surprisingly, is a free-to-play mobile app — a style I usually despise for feeling...
D.I.C.E. is going to be Epic thanks to sponsorship
Las Vegas about to get a little more unreal. Epic Games announced today that it will sponsor 2016’s D.I.C.E. Summit in Las Vegas on...
Skillz launches crossplatform tournament system for mobile esports
You Android gamers no longer need an iPhone to win money from Apple-device owners in mobile esports tournaments. One of the bigger mobile-esports startups...
GDC: 16% of game developers are working on VR, up from 7% a year ago
Virtual reality has the attention of game developers. A survey by the Game Developers Conference shows that 16 percent of all developers are working...