Evolve’s digital sales haven’t benefited from all of that downloadable content
Evolve actually made less from digital than January's breakout hit Dying Light.
Firewatch turns a boring wilderness job into a compelling adventure
Fire lookouts spend most of their time alone in the woods. But how does that translate into great gameplay?
A face-to-face demo of Facebook’s Teleportation virtual reality app
It's a glimpse of where virtual reality can take livestreaming in the future.
UCool’s Super Bowl ad game Heroes Charge is ‘cut-and-dried’ case of copyright infringement
One of a handful of games that advertised during the biggest sports event of the year caught the attention of a rival company's lawyers.
Smite’s first year sees it inching closer to MOBA elite League of Legends, Dota 2
The multiplayer online battle arena officially came out for PC on March 25, 2014, entering a market dominated by heavyweights League of Legends and Dota 2. Still, while many MOBAs don’t make it, Smite is now the third-most popular game of its kind, having surpassed Heroes of Newerth.
Facebook has paid out $8B to developers
Those numbers will likely keep going up, with Facebook expected to announce several bits of developer-oriented news later today at the F8 conference.
Xenoblade Chronicles 3D: One of the best Wii role-playing games is better on a portable console
It may seem like moving from a game console to a handheld system would be a step down, but somehow Xenoblade Chronicles 3D is even better on the New 3DS, Nintendo’s latest portable. But how? It’s not like sweeping changes have been made to the original since its release three years ago on the Wii .
The worst ideas you never saw in EverQuest — like the muffin zone
Developers of the 16-year-old massively multiplayer RPG tell us about epic failures: dragons-in-a-box, hidden ninjas, and a zone that was supposed to work like a clock.
New Evolve patch weakens its strongest monster
Evolve’s 1.3 patch, which comes out today for PC and next week for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, weakens many of the abilities of the Wraith monster. Developer Turtle Rock has reduced the speed of her Warp and Warp Blast abilities, and the duration of her Supernova spell is reduced by 50 percent.
Square Enix taps DeNA for its free-to-play expertise for Final Fantasy: Record Keeper
Final Fantasy maker pulls in a partner to bring one of its biggest mobile games to market.