Improbable hires game veteran Bill Roper as chief creative officer
Improbable, a British tech company that raised $502 million from SoftBank for its virtual-world simulation software, announced that former Disney game creator Bill Roper...
Valve: Steam gets $100 pub fee and more ‘human eyes’ in its algorithms
Valve is changing how its Steam store works, opening up its platform to any developer who wants to sell a game and is willing to pay...
Pathfinder: Kingmaker launches $500,000 Kickstarter for extra content, not the base game (update)
Owlcat Games made a lot of tabletop role-playing game fans happy with its announcement of Pathfinder: Kingmaker last week. The upcoming RPG for PCs...
Law professor Lawrence Lessig: Vast online games need a political structure
If you create an online world, would it turn into some kind of utopia or a hate-filled reality like The Lord of the Flies? And...
NCSoft takes on League of Legends with action MOBA Master X Master
Riot Games’ League of Legends seems pretty invulnerable at this point in the $19.8 billion multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) market. But that’s not...
Sega Europe’s partnership with Two Point Studios is another sign of its PC growth
Sonic Mania isn’t the only thing dashing full speed ahead at Sega. Despite the departure of chief operating officer and president Jurgen Post last week, Sega Europe...
How Nvidia’s Max-Q delivers 3 times the performance in a much thinner laptop
Last night, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang announced Max-Q, a new approach to designing gaming laptops to deliver three times the performance in a third of...
Game engine maker Unity raises $400 million in private equity from Silver Lake
Game engine maker Unity Technologies isn’t hurting for money. The company has raised $400 million in private equity from Silver Lake, according Unity CEO...
Grand Theft Auto Online cushions the blow of Red Dead’s delay
Take-Two Interactive Software delayed Red Dead Redemption 2 this week until 2018. But that didn’t derail the company’s outlook for the current fiscal year....
Civ VI was a large contributor to Take-Two’s net revenue growth
Take-Two Interactive Software reported today a net revenue growth of more than 50 percent to $571.6 million in the fiscal year 2017, in large...