Cars 3: Driven to Win is bringing Lightning and friends to consoles on June 13
These days, Disney doesn’t make many (non-mobile) video game tie-ins for its animated features. But Cars 3 is passing the trend. Disney announced today...
Club Penguin moves its Island to where kids are: mobile
After 12 years of surviving as a Flash game for web browsers, Club Penguin is moving to the $36 billion mobile business. Disney today...
Capcom will launch The Disney Afternoon Collection of six Nintendo classics on April 18 (update)
Capcom announced The Disney Afternoon Collection today. It’s a bundle of six games from its back catalog from the Nintendo Entertainment System (the console that revived the home gaming business in the mid-1980s), all tied to beloved slate of cartoons that started their run with Ducktales in 1987.
How Angry Birds maker Rovio found its wings in 2016
Angry Birds maker Rovio grew its revenues 34 percent to €190 million ($203 million) in 2016, up 34 percent from $150 million a year...
Bill Rosemann describes how Marvel designs characters we care about
Bill Rosemann believes that comic book characters have an impact in the real world because they make us want to live up to the...
Where in the world are the game jobs?
Figuring out how many game jobs there are in the world is a laudable goal. But it’s easier said that done. I embarked on...
PewDiePie’s anti-Semitic jokes show the peril of backing unpredictable influencers
Disney’s Maker Studios and YouTube have severed ties with gaming influencer Felix Kjellberg, known as PewDiePie, after he posted nine videos with anti-Semitic images...
The DeanBeat: How Warner Bros. rescued Avalanche Studios after Disney buried it
Disney and Warner Bros. have taken very different strategies in video games, and Avalanche Software, the decades-old Salt Lake City development studio, was caught...
Warner Bros. picks up Avalanche team to make Cars 3 game for Disney
Warner Bros. and Disney are keeping it all in the family. Last year, Disney shut down Avalanche Software, the maker of the Disney Infinity...
Disney is coming to Oculus Rift
Oculus has big plans on how to keep the content rolling out on its virtual reality platform. Disney is working with Oculus to make...