GSN’s Sparcade lets you play Centipede (and Two Dots soon) for real money
Last month, GSN Games debuted its Sparcade app that let consumers play classic arcade games like Pac-Man and Tetris on mobile devices with a...
Hothead’s Kill Shot series hits 65 million downloads
Hothead Games is announcing that its Kill Shot franchise has been downloaded more than 65 million times since 2014. The series started with Kill Shot,...
Warner Bros. debuts Fantastic Beasts hidden-object game targeted at females
Warner Bros. is about to cash in on J.K. Rowling’s creations again. The film Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (based on Rowling’s...
You’re probably going to have a bad time with Hearthstone’s Heroic Tavern Brawl
A special mode for Hearthstone has launched today. You shouldn’t play it. I mean … I did. But you shouldn’t. The Heroic Tavern Brawl...
Lumosity shares cognitive insights to show how well your brain works
Brain game maker Lumosity is launching a new analytics service dubbed Insights, which goes beyond brain training and analyzes your gameplay performance and tells...
The Sandbox Evolution delivers pixelated user-generated worlds on Steam
Indie game studio Pixowl had a big hit with its mobile game The Sandbox, a user-generated content game where you can create just about...
Super Mario Run sprints to iPhone and iPad on December 15 for $10
Gaming’s favorite plumbler is getting ready to take a big bite out of Apple. Nintendo announced today that its mobile platformer Super Mario Run...
CrowdStar launches Design Home in pursuit of female mobile gamers
CrowdStar scored a rare and major hit with Covet Fashion, a mobile game geared toward women and fashion fans, four years ago. That game is...
Final Fantasy: Brave Exvius and Brave Frontier start mobile crossover event
The Japanese mobile role-playing game Brave Frontier is celebrating its third anniversary with a special crossover event with Final Fantasy: Brave Exvius, another mobile JRPG. Brave Exvius was itself a Square Enix project that came about with the help of A-Lim and Gummi, the companies behind Brave Frontier.
Tetris, VR, and escapism: Why we play
You have no control. You are a cluster of systems cohabitating a space with the systems of other people and the physical world. The...