Newzoo’s Peter Warman: Why big brands are diving into esports sponsorships
Peter Warman, a game industry analyst and CEO of Dutch market researcher Newzoo, started following esports closely in 2013. He started looking into the...
How game companies can boost cybersecurity and avoid Fortnite’s fiasco
The mobile gaming market is one of the fastest growing industries, and for the first time, market watchers forecast it to generate more than...
Fortnite players can merge their accounts in November
Sony is finally letting Epic fix its split-accounts problem. The PlayStation company announced today that it will enable crossplay, and that means you can...
PlayStation 4 changes crossplay policy, begins Fortnite testing
Sony announced today a major policy shift regarding crossplay with other consoles. PlayStation 4 previously wouldn’t allow online games to connect to Xbox One...
SuperData: Fortnite and World of Warcraft boost digital sales 7% from 2017
Digital games sales across all platforms combined — PC, console, and mobile — went up 7 percent worldwide in August compared to the same...
Ring of Elysium is more interesting than Call of Duty’s battle royale
Like PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds or Fortnite, Ring of Elysium is about finding good loot to improve your chances of survival against other players in a massive open-world map. But Tencent changes this in a few key ways.
Nintendo Switch builds a Fortnite bundle
Nintendo announced the Fortnite -- Double Helix Switch Bundle today. It includes a Switch, 1,000 V-bucks (Fortnite's in-game currency), and the Double Helix cosmetic set (which includes an outfit, backpack, glider, and pickax). The bundles comes out on October 5 and will cost $300.
John Riccitiello Q&A: How Unity CEO views Epic’s Fortnite success
Years ago, Epic Games pitched a little game called Fortnite to then-Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello. Not so prophetically, he turned it down. Fortnite...
Ring of Elysium is the most exciting battle royale launching this fall
Fortnite and PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds better look out. Tencent Games has made its own battle royale game called Ring of Elysium. It is coming to Steam...
Nintendo holds off Spider-Man, Pokémon Go in gaming industry TV ad spend
Nintendo upped it spend in August to an estimated $6.2 million from July’s $5.8 million, while PlayStation is back on the chart after dropping...