U.S. gaming industry earned $30.4 billion in 2016, up from 2015
2016 was a year of growth for the U.S. gaming industry. According to industry-tracking firm The NPD Group and the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), the...
2016 NPD: Call of Duty No. 1, Battlefield No. 2 on 2016’s list of best-selling games
2016 is over. Here are the games that made the most of the year. The NPD Group has released its list of the 10...
December 2016 NPD: Final Fantasy XV shows it has a new recipe for franchise’s sales
It was a good month for Final Fantasy and Pokémon, but video game sales continue to see overall declines. The video game industry generated $2.8...
Blitz mode turns Halo Wars 2 into a furious multiplayer fray
Blitz mode is a new single and multiplayer battle mode in Halo Wars 2 that changes the way you play the real-time strategy game....
Nintendo reveals new Fire Emblem games for Switch, 3DS, and mobile
Nintendo has promoted Fire Emblem to core franchise status. The tactical role-playing game series has been around since 1990 (although the U.S. didn’t see...
Resident Evil 7 gets Play Anywhere support for Xbox One and PC
Zombies won’t be contained by meager things like separate platforms. Microsoft announced today that Capcom’s Resident Evil 7 will be a part of its Xbox...
Former Techland COO starts a new game studio in Poland
Strange New Things, a game development studio based in Wroclaw, Poland, announced its opening today. Pawel Zawodny, the former chief operating officer of Techland, formed the...
Harmonix vet Florian Hunziker grabs Adam Boyes’s old third-party relations gig at PlayStation
Among the three major console manufacturers, Sony has had arguably the strongest support from third-party indie developers and major blockbuster publishers this generation. Now,...
How Digital Extremes built Warframe into a free-to-play sci-fi juggernaut
It’s easy to fail in the video game business. If you sit still long enough, this ever-changing market will leave you behind. Someone with fresher...
Did Nintendo’s Switch reveal set the new console up for success? GamesBeat decides
Nintendo has finally given us the Switch details we craved, including a March 3 launch date, a $300 price, and new games like Super...