Xbox Live change enables you to choose any gamertag you want
Xbox Live is changing the way that gamertags work. The service now enables you to change your name to whatever you want — although...
Anuman Interactive adopts Microids name, opens Japan office
Anuman Interactive announced today that it is changing its name to Microids, a move signalling a big year for the French game publisher. Microids...
Super League Gaming and ggCircuit create global amateur Fortnite Chapter 2 tournament with $130,000 in prizes
Super League Gaming has teamed up with ggCircuit to stage a Fortnite 2 global amateur tournament with $130,000 in prizes. As part of its...
Reiko’s Fragments will arrive just in time for Halloween VR social scares
A new VR game entering early access for Halloween this year lets you send jump scares from a simple webpage to a friend wearing...
Adjust panel: The state of user acquisition for mobile games
Acquiring users for mobile games isn’t the sexiest part of the game industry. But it’s a critical one. And so I was happy to...
Why have hyper-casual games replaced gacha in Japan?
In 1999 — some 20 years before the birth of Apple’s App Store when mobile phone owners in the West could only play Snake...
Daydream is dying, but its 4 best exclusives live on
Some 30 months ago, I bought a Google Pixel. It was probably the first high-end phone I’d ever bought. But I didn’t pick it...
Former Eidos president and frequent game startup adviser Keith Boesky passes away
Keith Boesky, former president of Tomb Raider publisher Eidos and a frequent adviser to game companies at Boesky & Co., has died from cancer,...
Battletech gets Heavy Metal expansion on November 21
Paradox Interactive and Harebrained Schemes announced the Heavy Metal expansion for mech combat game Battletech will go live on November 21. At PDXCON, the...
Fortnite is finally getting better spatial audio
One of the reasons I couldn’t get into Fortnite was the sound. PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has an excellent and accurate sound model, and that made...