Diablo: Immortal’s closed alpha takes its PvP systems to the test
Blizzard Entertainment is putting Diablo: Immortal into a closed alpha starting today, and the new testing will let players try out the Crusader class...
Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan is leaving Blizzard
Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan announced today that he is leaving Blizzard Entertainment after 19 years with the company. Aaron Keller will become the new...
Deloitte: Consumers load up on subscriptions but are frustrated with fragmentation
Consumers are loading up on digital media subscriptions, with the average subscriber having four paid video streaming services per household, two paid music services,...
How Playable Worlds is building a cloud-native sandbox MMO
Playable Worlds, an online game company that Raph Koster and Eric Goldberg founded, is making a “cloud-native” massively multiplayer online game. But what that...
Zynga’s Small Giant Games launches mobile match-3 action-RPG Puzzle Combat
Zynga’s Small Giant Games studio has launched Puzzle Combat, a new mobile match-3 action-RPG from the maker of Empires & Puzzles. Small Giant Games’...
Roblox is so lucrative that it has attracted professional studios like Gamefam
Roblox is one of gaming’s many quiet giants. Or, if you have teenagers or children, perhaps it is not so quiet. The long-running user-generated...
The metaverse needs responsible stewardship
Like many, I spent more and more time in the metaverse this past year. I built a drag racer, (hyper) casually explored city management,...
All I want is this Offroad Delivery Service game
My game of the year in 2020 was SnowRunner, but now something new is looking to drive a truck into my heart. Offroad Delivery...
Riot website confirms details about its League of Legends MMO
Riot Games is making a League of Legends MMORPG. We know that because one of its developers said so on Twitter back in December....
Steam February 2021 top 20 new releases: Valheim, Persona 5: Strikers, and more
Valve published a list of Steam’s February 2021 top 20 new releases, and it shouldn’t surprise anyone that the early access megahit Valheim is...
