Overwolf will pay out $29M to mod and app creators in 2021
Overwolf rebranded itself this week as a guild of in-game creators. And it is announcing today that it expects to pay out $29 million...
NIS America is making fan translations official with Trails from Zero and Trails to Azure
NIS America today announced localizations for four games in Nihon Falcom’s The Legend of Heroes series, and it is turning to a dedicated group...
Crossplay will be the key to the $42B double-A market
Binary is back in the video game industry — not for coding, but for development strategy, with the focus being on super-hits or indie...
Icarus breaks up the survival genre into smart session-based gameplay
Icarus is the new game from developer RocketWerkz, which DayZ creator Dean Hall founded in New Zealand following his time at Bohemia Interactive. The...
EA Originals shows the value of ‘smaller’ games for big publishers
EA is one of the biggest game publishers in the world, but it has taken an interest in “smaller” games. Sure, titles like Madden...
Cloud gaming monetization keeps evolving
Cloud gaming tech has significant potential to upset established video game monetization models. We’re seeing stark parallels with established streaming models, like with the...
GXC raises $4.73M for game community feedback tools
Global game platform GXC has raised $4.73 million in funding to fund multiple game services, including community feedback tools for mobile game makers. GXC...
Parsec launches remote access for cloud computing in the enterprise
Parsec is taking its pandemic-born remote game development service and turning it into a cloud computing service for remote enterprise workers. New York-based Parsec...
Belong Gaming Arenas opens 1st U.S. esports gaming center in Houston
Vindex‘s Belong Gaming Arenas is opening its first U.S. location in Houston, Texas, as part of a plan to expand its chain of local...
How playable ads can help acquire users
Playable ads have exploded in popularity over the past few years as a powerful format for game developers to attract and acquire new users....