Steven Ma interview — How Tencent is more than just a big game investor
Steven Ma joined Tencent in 2007, when most people in the world probably had not heard about the Shenzhen, China-based company. Now Tencent is...
Minh ‘Gooseman’ Le shares how to get the guns right in shooters
Minh Le knows his guns. Nicknamed “Gooseman,” Le helped create a mod for Half-Life 2 back in 1999. It became Counter-Strike, one of the...
Epic CEO on 250 million Fortnite players, digital humans, and $100 million dev fund
Epic Games dumped a bunch of news about the state of the Unreal Engine at its keynote talk at the Game Developers Conference today....
Epic Games makes online services available for free to game devs
Epic Games learned a lot about creating online services with the launch of Fortnite, the enormously successful battle royale game with 250 million users....
Family gaming is a great way to bond with your kids
Are video games bad once again? As in the 1980s and 1990s, games have their detractors today. One doesn’t have to go far to...
The ‘e’ in esports also stands for ‘engagement’
Who would have thought we’d live in a world where we’d even fathom video games worthy of consideration as an Olympic sport? Or where...
Is Fortnite killing game company stocks?
Since October, major game company stocks have been down significantly. Of course, much of this was due to an overall market decline. However, as...
Activision Blizzard is reportedly planning hundreds of layoffs
The video game industry isn’t done with its bad news, it seems. Bloomberg reported that Activision Blizzard plans to lay off hundreds of people...
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...