Roblox raises $150 million as its user-created game world surpasses 70 million players
Roblox has raised $150 million in a new round of funding aimed at expanding the international growth of its social platform for user-generated games....
Talking Tom: Managing a franchise with 8 billion downloads
When Talking Tom developer Outfit7 was sold to a Chinese company in January 2017 for $1 billion, it might have easily been seen as...
China’s education ministry moves to curtail screen time for games to prevent myopia
China’s Ministry of Education issued a notice on Thursday aimed at preventing myopia, or nearsightedness, among children and adolescents by limiting the screen time...
Osmo Super Studio makes kids’ hand-drawn Mickey Mouse art come to life
Classroom walls and refrigerators are home to so many kids’ hand-drawn works of art, and now those drawings can come to life with Osmo...
AppOnBoard powers Google Play’s ‘try now’ button with playable demos
AppOnboard and Google are collaborating to bring playable demos directly into the Google Play store with a “try now” button. That button is prominently...
The RetroBeat: It’s time for a new Chrono Trigger
Square Enix is a company that is on its 15th Final Fantasy and 11th Dragon Quest. That isn’t counting dozens of spinoffs. Square Enix...
NPD: U.S. game spending up 40% in first half of 2018
U.S. consumers spent $19.5 billion on gaming in the first half of 2018, according to industry-tracking firm The NPD Group. This is up 40 percent...
Donut County review — It’s fun to swallow the world with a donut hole
Donut County is a crazy video game where you position a donut hole under objects and they fall into it. The more items you...
Animoca Brands acquires Sandbox game developer Pixowl for $4.875 million
Animoca Brands acquired Pixowl, the developer of The Sandbox user-created world mobile game, for $4.875 million in cash and stock. The deal represents a nice...
The DeanBeat: Yep, I’m still playing Pokémon Go
I’m one of those people who is still playing Pokémon Go, the location-based mobile game that set the world on fire in July 2016. If you...