Categories Posted inin Business Free-to-play juggernaut League of Legends still growing rapidly — 27M players daily Posted byby GamesBeat January 27, 2014 1 min The PC game has more then doubled its number of daily players since October 2012.
Categories Posted inin Business Sims 4 producer’s view on designing a diverse game studio (interview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 27, 2014 6 min You can encourage diversity, but you can't force women to go into game design either.
Categories Posted inin Business King chief executive addresses ‘Candy’ trademark, The Banner Saga, and cloning games Posted byby Jeff Grubb January 27, 2014 3 min King admits that it never should have released Pac-Avoid, a game that "strongly resembles" a competitors product.
Categories Posted inin Business VRcade wants to revive high-end, location-based virtual reality Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 27, 2014 3 min VRcade wants to build a virtual reality location that could cost $1 million.
Categories Posted inin Business Chinese online game publisher Shanda gets $1.9B offer to go private Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 27, 2014 1 min A group of controlling shareholders wants to take the company private.
Categories Posted inin Business Epic says selling Gears of War to Microsoft doesn’t mean it’s done making games Posted byby Jeff Grubb January 27, 2014 2 min The developer noted that it still plans to release its co-op shooter Fortnite.
Categories Posted inin Business Despite strong PlayStation 4 launch, Sony’s credit rating drops to ‘junk’ status Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 27, 2014 1 min Sony will now find it harder and more expensive to borrow money.
Categories Posted inin Entertainment Microsoft’s ambition is to make TV more interactive and entertaining (interview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 27, 2014 7 min Elan Lee, creative director at Xbox studio in Hollywood, wants to make TV on the Xbox One more interactive.
Categories Posted inin Business Gears of War is now a Microsoft-owned property Posted byby Jeff Grubb January 27, 2014 3 min Microsoft will have its wholly owned studio Black Tusk work on a new entry in the shooter franchise.
Categories Posted inin Business Video Game High School crowdfunding gets off to a good start Posted byby Dean Takahashi January 25, 2014 2 min Freddie Wong's Indiegogo campaign has raised $170K out of its $750K goal.