Tekken 8 takes silver in 2024’s opening salvo | Circana January 2024
Tekken 8 is the top-selling new game in January, though it can’t quite dethrone Modern Warfare 3, according to industry-tracking firm Circana. The fighting...
TiMi and Xbox’s World’s Edge reveal Age of Empires Mobile
TiMi Studio Group and Microsoft’s World’s Edge studio announced Age of Empires Mobile is debuting later this year. TiMi has had the magic touch...
Conversations from the Dice Awards green room
Last week, the luminaries of the game industry accepted awards on stage at the Dice Awards event in Las Vegas before hundreds of their...
How Coda envisions growth for alternative web shops | Shane Happach interview
Ever since the advent of the app stores, game companies have been paying the 30% “tax” on digital purchases for the mobile app stores....
How the structure of the game industry is changing | Gilles Langourieux interview
Virtuos has carved out a big business since 2004 as a company that handles outsourced game development for both developers and publishers. With more than 3,700 people...
Renee Gittins’ Potions: A Curious Tale debuts soon after nearly 10-year gestation
Potions: A Curious Tale is debuting on March 7 on Steam after nearly 10 years of development work by indie game developer Renee Gittins...
Palworld hits 25M players as it co-exists with Helldivers 2
Live service games typically compete with each other for the finite resource that is gamers’ attention. Conventional wisdom in the games industry would have...
Riot dubs upcoming LoL fighter 2XKO, playtests with FGC in 2024
Riot Games has announced the final name for its upcoming fighting game set in the world of League of Legends. Formerly known as Project...
VCs team up with creators amid games funding pullback
Games venture capital funds have been dealt a challenging hand amid broader market turmoil over the last 18 months. After placing many (potentially inflated)...
OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Intel’s Pat Gelsinger defend big spending on AI
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger got a lot of press today as he launched Intel Foundry as a systems foundry business designed for the AI era. And he ended the...