PlayStation acquires Savage Game Studios for mobile efforts
PlayStation announced its latest acquisition today: Savage Game Studios. The studio will become part of the company’s expansion into mobile games and is already...
Forget the top 1%, it’s all about the ‘middle class’ of influencers
Would you rather fight a horse-sized duck or a hundred duck-sized horses? It’s a silly and subjective question that comes up at parties with...
Trolli and Halo team up to deliver XP boosts via candy
Candy brand Trolli and Halo Infinite are teaming up for a series of collectible bags of candy. Hungry gamers can scoop up one of...
How Rollic hit 2B downloads for its hypercasual games
Rollic has crossed two billion lifetime downloads across its portfolio of hypercasual games, or accessible titles that you can play in a minute or...
Gabe Leydon’s Limit Break has $200M to make a new kind of blockchain game
Gabe Leydon was a pioneer of free-to-play mobile games at Machine Zone, which was sold for $300 million in 2020 to AppLovin. Now he’s...
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection review — It’s still time for turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II for NES is one of the earliest games I can ever remember playing. That first level set in a...
Yumon launches a fantasy world where the heroes are streamers and YouTubers
Yumon has launched what it calls the first player-owned creator fantasy world. The game turns YouTubers and streamers into fantasy heroes through authenticated digital...
Kaser Focus: Gamescom; bogus bids; back to school
Most weeks, I only have one or two things about which to vomit my opinion in this column. But hell, a lot went down...
Microsoft and Nintendo are probably not raising console prices like Sony
It’s kind of a weird time to find yourself in the market for a console. Sony is raising prices on the PlayStation 5 in...
Roberta & Ken Williams on remaking one of the oldest games
As video game developers go, Roberta Williams is a legend. She founded Sierra On-Line alongside her husband Ken and spearheaded development on now-classic titles...