February 2018’s top 10 Minecraft Marketplace creations: city life and teens
February saw a huge jump in downloads in the Minecraft Marketplace. Players on PC, mobile, and Xbox consoles downloaded 372,509 pieces of content from...
Roblox draws more than 50 million players a month to game world
Roblox has built a Lego-like virtual world where kids and teens can create their own games, and now it is drawing more than 50...
Nintendo Switch sets records as PlayStation 4 tops February’s sales chart
Nintendo Switch’s unprecedented sales success continued through the end of its 12th month, but Sony’s PlayStation 4 outsold its competition in February. The NPD...
February NPD 2018: Monster Hunter repeats as top game in the U.S.
Gaming consumers in the United States are dropping money on hardware and games even as February had a dearth of earth-shattering new releases. The...
Sea of Thieves is mesmerizing and hilarious
Microsoft and developer Rare launched Sea of Thieves last night for Windows 10 and Xbox One. After an hour-and-a-half with the final retail build,...
Ubisoft evades hostile takeover by swapping Vivendi for Tencent
Ubisoft is announcing today that French multimedia conglomerate Vivendi is selling all of its shares in the game maker. This ends Vivendi’s bid to...
Sea of Thieves servers crushed under wave of would-be pirates
Sea of Thieves is an online piracy simulator where you can work together with a crew to sail a ship to remote islands and into uncharted waters. You perform missions for computer-controlled characters, and you can get into battles with other players in their boats.
Sensor Tower: Fortnite players spend $1.5 million on iOS version
Fortnite isn’t just winning over celebrity fans; it’s also making money. As I reported earlier today, Fortnite is the No. 2 highest-grossing game on iOS,...
Fortnite rides a rocket to No. 2 highest-grossing iOS game
Epic is now enabling people to take Fortnite with them wherever they go, and players are rewarding the developer with massive quantities of cash....
Yakuza Kiwami 2 is releasing in the U.S. on August 28
Sega announced today that Yakuza Kiwami 2 is coming out for the PlayStation 4 in the U.S. on August 28. Yakuza Kiwami 2 is a...