Vainglory creator Super Evil Megacorp raises $26M for hardcore mobile gaming
Super Evil Megacorp, creator of hit touchscreen multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) game Vainglory, has raised $26 million in funding. The funding is a...
Kabam’s Kevin Chou on setting a strategy to win in global mobile gaming
Kevin Chou is a young chief executive, but in six swift years, he has grown Kabam into a $400 million free-to-play mobile gaming company with 800 employees.
A racing wheel makes driving sims — and learning to drive — much more realistic
My 15-year-old kid is about to get her driving permit. I had the bright idea of teaching her how drive in a racing simulation...
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Warcraft’s new expansion, ChinaJoy, and Gamescom
Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! We covered a ton of news coming out of the Gamescom conference in Cologne, including the reveal of...
Hearthstone, Call of Duty lead Activision to $611M in digital revenues last quarter
Activision made more than 80 percent of its Q2 revenue from digital.
The ridiculous design behind a key scene in Life Is Strange
This post contains spoilers for Episodes 1-4 of Life Is Strange. We hear a lot about choice in games lately, but we don’t always...
Glu to make a Nicki Minaj mobile game
If you’re a celebrity and have more than 100 million social media followers, Glu Mobile wants you. In its latest deal, Glu announced today...
World of Warcraft monthly subscribers fall to 5.6M, its lowest level since 2005
Blizzard is getting ready to announce some major new content for World of Warcraft later this week, and it seems clear now that the...
Activision Blizzard beats Wall Street’s expectations for Q2 2015
Activision Blizzard reported earnings that blew past the expectations of Wall Street analysts during its slow summer quarter. The earnings for the fiscal second...
The dos & don’ts for in-game video advertising
Online video ads are getting three times more clicks on average than other digital ad formats, including mobile, display, and rich media ads, said...