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...
783 dance pads and 27.2 million Xbox 360 controllers are connected to Steam
Valve Software doesn’t just distribute games and make digital hats. It also tracks how its Steam members interact with their software. Over the last...
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...
The Walking Dead game creator Telltale Games lays off most of staff (updated)
The Walking Dead game series creator Telltale Games has laid off a large part of its staff and may be in danger of shutting...
The D20 Beat — Dragon’s Dogma, Etrian Odyssey, and Path of Exile are today’s D&D megadungeons (updated)
I adore Capcom’s Dragon’s Dogma, an open-world role-playing game that first appeared in 2012. I missed out on the Dark Arisen expansion, but thanks...
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.
Crytek’s CryEngine update focuses on novice game devs
CryEngine is the other major game-dev toolkit. To continue competing with Unreal and Unity, Crytek has updated it to version 5.5 with 1,000-plus improvements.
Magic: The Gathering — Arena launches open beta test September 27
Card games are an important and growing market in video games worth $1.3 billion in 2017, research firm Superdata reports, and should hit $1.7 billion in 2019. Blizzard’s Hearthstone rules, making 3.3 times more than its closet competitor. But it's going to get a serious competitor when Wizards brings Arena from its open beta to launch state and when Valve releases Artifact, its take on digital card games, on November 28.
Former BioWare general manager Aaryn Flynn joins Improbable
Improbable announced today Aaryn Flynn is joining the cloud-based game tools maker as its general manager and will run its office in Edmonton, Alberta. Flynn served...
Riot Games signs Mastercard as League of Legends sponsor as it fixes sexist culture
Riot Games announced today that Mastercard has signed on to become a global sponsor for the League of Legends’ esports for multiple years. The...