PlayStation dominated gaming industry TV spend in December
PlayStation continued its trend of spending big through the month of December, accounting for almost half of all gaming industry advertising on TV. Xbox...
Minecraft’s cats, pandas, and thriving Marketplace partners
The Minecraft Team at Microsoft has built a burgeoning Marketplace. And for the last several months in a row, it has worked to make...
At CES 2019, VR and AR took small but meaningful steps forward
Ahead of 2019’s Consumer Electronics Show, I hoped to see several key developments with next-generation VR and AR headsets — dramatically higher-resolution PC VR...
Bungie-Activision divorce analysis: Royalties, underperformance, and Destiny 3
Bungie and Activision shocked the gaming world Thursday when the companies announced that they were no longer working together on the Destiny franchise. Activision...
Epic, Improbable create $25 million fund to transition devs away from Unity
Unity found itself at the center of a controversy today, and now competitor Epic Games is turning up the heat. Unity is cutting off...
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...
Destiny and Bungie are breaking up with Activision
Bungie is ending its partnership with publisher Activision, according to a report from Kotaku and confirmed by the publisher and the studio. The former Halo...
Unity game engine blocks SpatialOS’ online gaming tools (updated)
SpatialOS developer Improbable revealed today that a change in Unity‘s terms of service has now made the company’s tool in breach of the game engine’s...
Sensor Tower: Knives Out is a mobile battle royale monster despite U.S. ignoring it
You probably know about Fortnite and PUBG, and how each battle royale game has successfully launched mobile versions. But according to market analyst Sensor Tower, they...
Red Dead Online gets its Battle Royale mode with Gun Rush
Rockstar Games released a new update for Red Dead Online today. It adds Gun Rush, a new mode that has 32 players (alone or...