How to keep playable ads from wrecking the player experience
In many ways, mobile games have led the way for innovation in advertising. Gamers are quite conscious of advertising, how it can actually benefit...
The DeanBeat: A delicious fall season is coming for gamers
With Geoff Keighley’s Gamescom Opening Night Live wrapped up on Wednesday, we now have a good rundown of all of the big game launches...
Hero Wars maker Nexters goes public in SPAC at $1.9B valuation
Mobile game maker Nexters is going public today through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in a deal that values the company at an...
Zynga plans to launch Merge Dragons mobile game in China
Zynga said that it plans to launch Merge Dragons in China, and it has received some important approvals for doing so. China’s regulators will...
Townscaper — the chill city-design game — is out now on Switch
One of my favorite little games from the last few years is Townscaper. It’s a Steam Early Access sandbox where players can quickly and...
How Riot Games is training 60 girls to be game developers with Girls Who Code
About 45% of video game players in the U.S. are women, but only about 30% of game developers identify as female. This is why...
Park Beyond interview: ‘Impossifying’ the amusement park management sim
Park Beyond is a different sort of project for Bandai Namco, a company known better for its arcade classics, licensed kids games, and anime-style...
Death Stranding: Director’s Cut gets rid of some of the grind
Hideo Kojima is hard at work on Death Stranding: Director’s Cut, and it looks like he’s getting rid of some of the grind. In...
Tales of Luminaria announced for mobile
Tales of Arise is nearing its September 10 release date, and now we know another entry in the RPG franchise is on the way....
DokeV shows off how combat works in this Korean homage to Pokémon
We’ve seen a bunch of Pokémon-likes in recent years: Temtem, Monster Sanctuary, Slime Rancher, and more (along with older standbys like Digimon and Yokai...