Epic Games awards $500,000 in final Unreal Dev Grants
Epic Games has awarded $500,000 in awards to the final recipients of Unreal Dev Grants, a $5 million fund supporting developers working with Unreal...
Vblank Entertainment’s Shakedown: Hawaii heads to the Epic Games Store
Vblank Entertainment has announced its next game, Shakedown: Hawaii, will make its PC debut first on the Epic Games Store this spring. Vblank previously...
Kabam founder Kevin Chou believes blockchain will revolutionize game economics
Kevin Chou, who led Kabam in mobile games and Gen.G in esports, announced last week that he has created a blockchain gaming company called...
Tim Sweeney’s 2 minutes onstage at HoloLens 2 event says a lot about AR openness
One of the bigger surprises at Microsoft’s introduction of HoloLens 2 was the short appearance by Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney, a veteran critic...
The DeanBeat: Wall Street hates game companies again. How dumb!
Electronic Arts saw its stock price fall off a cliff this week as it acknowledged in an earnings call that Battlefield V didn’t sell...
Sensor Tower: Fortnite makes $500 million on iOS in less than a year
Fortnite on iOS reached the $500 million mark in worldwide revenue by the end of 2018, according to estimates from market analyst Sensor Tower. The...
State Farm sponsors Fortnite streamer DrLupo
State Farm announced today that it has entered a sponsorship agreement with Benjamin “DrLupo” Lupo, one of the most popular Fortnite streamers in the world. DrLupo...
Digi-Capital: Game investment doubles previous record at $5.7 billion in 2018
Investments in game companies hit a record $5.7 billion in 2018, or more than twice the previous record set in 2017, according to advisory...
Metro Exodus will skip Steam for Epic Games Store
Epic Games and Deep Silver announced today that Metro Exodus will only be sold digitally for PC on the Epic Games Store. Valve has...
VR studio Fable relaunches as AI-based virtual beings company at Sundance
Virtual reality studio Fable has relaunched, shifting its focus from VR to artificial intelligence, with an emphasis on creating “virtual beings,” or believable human...