Built to last: How ‘Yahtzee With Buddies’ achieved its best-year-yet five years post-launch
Presented by Scopely The mobile games industry is growing at breakneck speed with the competition for players’ attention at an all-time high. With more...
How Iron Galaxy is preserving company culture during the pandemic
Iron Galaxy has been making rough-sounding video games like Divekick, Wreckateer, and Killer Instinct since 2012, and before that, it had been making games...
March Gaming Fund debuts with $60 million for game startups
March Capital has launched its March Gaming Fund with $60 million to invest in game startups. The fund is headed by managing director Gregory...
Facebook gamifies data collection to boost conversational AI
Facebook once piloted a text-based fantasy role-playing game to improve the conversational models powering things like its chatbots and smart speakers. In a preprint...
Blackout Blitz creator Big Run Studios raises $5.25 million for casual mobile games
Big Run Studios has raised $5.25 million in seed round funding led by game investment firm Transcend Fund. Game and tech investor Galaxy Interactive,...
Ori dev Moon Studios signs deal with Take-Two’s Private Division
Private Division, a publishing label under Take-Two Interactive, announced deals today with three independent developers. This includes the studio behind the Ori series, Moon...
Facebook develops AI algorithm that learns to play poker on the fly
Facebook researchers have developed a general AI framework called Recursive Belief-based Learning (ReBeL) that they say achieves better-than-human performance in heads-up, no-limit Texas hold’em...
Suikoden successor Eiyuden Chronicle hits Kickstarter goal in first day
Eiyuden Chronicle launched its Kickstarter campaign today, and the successor to the Japanese role-playing game series Suikoden has already met its $509,713 goal. It...
VENN unveils 20 hours of weekly video game programming for broadcast TV
VENN, or the Video Game Entertainment and News Network, is announcing it will create 20 hours of weekly video game programming for broadcast television...
Niantic taps ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ director Rian Johnson for Pokémon Go Fest video
Niantic has tapped Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Knives Out director Rian Johnson to create a commercial for the Pokémon Go Fest. Niantic...