Geoff Keighley launches Summer Game Fest to capture gaming’s biggest unveils
Geoff Keighley, the organizer of The Game Awards, is announcing the Summer Game Fest today. It’s a four-month-long season of game industry news events...
Niko Partners: How the pandemic affected games in China
Market researcher Niko Partners studied the effects of the pandemic in China in the first quarter, and it found both negative and positive effects...
GDC goes all-digital for its rescheduled August event
The Game Developers Conference has decided that GDC Summer will now be an all-digital event, getting rid of the physical side of the rescheduled...
Microsoft built Xbox Game Pass for this moment, and it’s thriving
Xbox Game Pass doesn’t have Friends, but it does have the friends we’ve made along the way. And that’s not just a silly phrase by a...
Microsoft will show Xbox Series X games on May 7
Microsoft announced today that it’s holding an event at 8 a.m. Pacific on May 7, showing games running on the Xbox Series X next-generation...
Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla will launch on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and more this holiday
After announcing the title yesterday, Ubisoft has given us a better look at Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla today. Ubisoft also confirmed that the game is...
No Nintendo Direct planned for June due to work-from-home hurdles
Nintendo is telling partner developers it’s not going to hold one of its Nintendo Direct video events in June. The publisher has had a...
Newzoo will extract analytics insights from Reddit’s gamers
Game and esports market researcher Newzoo has teamed up with social network Reddit to extract details on consumer engagement with video games. It’s an...
Intel launches S-Series CPUs primed for gamers
The competition in processors between Intel and Advanced Micro Devices heats up today as Intel launches its S-Series family of microprocessors targeted at gaming...
Guilded raises $7 million for gaming chat platform
Guilded has raised $7 million to build what it calls the “ultimate chat platform for gaming communities.” It sounds a bit like rival chat...