Chief design officer Patrick Söderlund is leaving EA
Electronic Arts announced today that Patrick Söderlund is leaving the company. Söderlund was EA’s chief design officer. Söderlund was once the chief executive officer of DICE,...
Zendesk integrates Discord chat for better customer support
Zendesk is partnering with Discord, the fast-growing free voice and text chat application used by more than 14 million gamers a day, to improve...
Former 2K president Christoph Hartmann joins Amazon Game Studios as vice president
Last May, Christoph Hartmann stepped down from his role as president of Take-Two Interactive’s 2K Games — and he’s landed as vice president of Amazon...
Virtual reality lands at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport
Virtual reality arrived at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City earlier this summer when PeriscapeVR set up 12 stations in Terminal 4. It’s...
How VR archery game QuiVr sold 100,000 copies in early access
Archery game QuiVr recently emerged from Early Access after more than two years of development. During that time, the game sold roughly 35,000 copies...
Apple kills app affiliate commissions, imperiling small publishers
Effective October 1, Apple will stop paying publishers affiliate commissions for both apps and in-app purchases from its App Stores, a move that independent app reviewers believe will kill their sites.
Google and Unity partner to boost mobile game advertising
In mobile games, 96 percent of players don’t pay any money for game content. But 71 percent of them say they won’t mind watching...
Cloudcade forms game studio and invests in Pakistan as a tech hub
San Francisco’s Cloudcade has done well with games such as Shop Heroes in the past five years. And now the company is expanding in...
The IndieBeat: Tehran Game Convention shows global politics won’t stop gaming’s growth
The nonprofit Iran Computer and Video Games Foundation (IRCG) has wanted to bring international game developers to Tehran for over a decade, and it...
Digi-Capital launches AR-VR analytics platform
Augmented reality and virtual reality consulting firm Digi-Capital reported earlier this year that AR/VR startups raised over $3.6 billion in funding during a 12-month...