Chinese regulators start approving mobile games for Tencent, NetEase, and Perfect World
After a long delay, big Chinese game publishers Tencent, NetEase, and Perfect World are getting their mobile games approved for the Chinese market again....
Gameye raises $1.6 million to minimize delays in multiplayer games
Gameye has raised $1.6 million for its business of creating matchmaking services for multiplayer online games. The Rotterdam, Netherlands-based startup created an applications programming...
NCSoft trims jobs on unannounced project at Iron Tiger Studios
NCSoft, the South Korean online game publisher that makes games like Lineage 2 and Guild Wars 2, has laid off an undisclosed number of...
The DeanBeat: Sorting out the Epic-Unity-Improbable mess
If I’ve concluded one thing from the spat in the past week between Unity Technologies, Improbable, and Epic Games, it’s that it won’t be...
The Elder Scrolls Online: Elsweyr adds a new country, Necromancers, and dragons
Zenimax Online Studios announced Elsweyr today, the next chapter for its massively multiplayer online role-playing game The Elder Scrolls Online. It releases in June. Elsweyr...
Unity and Improbable’s beef gets spicy and strange in dueling blog posts
Earlier today, Unity Technologies blocked Improbable’s SpatialOS online-gaming tools from accessing the Unity game-dev engine. This has left developers reeling because many of them...
Black Desert will be the prettiest MMO you can play on Xbox One
Black Desert is coming to Xbox One on March 4. This will be the first time that the massively multiplayer online role-playing game will...
Path of Exile: Betrayal sets new expansion record for concurrent players
Path of Exile may be in for a Betrayal, but it’s not coming from its players. A studio spokesperson from Grinding Gear Games said today...
Heroes of the Storm eulogy: For once, Blizzard couldn’t balance the casual and competitive
Heroes of the Storm isn’t dead. But it isn’t alive, either. Blizzard Entertainment’s announcement this week that it was ending Heroes esports entirely, shifting...
FanAI and Hi-Rez to gather audience analytics for Smite, Paladins, and Realm Royale
FanAI, Hi-Rez Studios and Skillshot Media are partnering to gather audience data for potential sponsors of Hi-Rez’s esports games such as Smite, Paladins, and...