Super Lucky’s Tale dev Playful lays off a large portion of staff
Playful Corp. announced today that it is laying off a significant portion of its full-time staff today. The studio created Super Lucky’s Tale, a...
Playful Studios raises $23 million for spectator-enabled games
Playful Studios, the maker of the Lucky’s Tale series of games, has raised $23 million in funding from a wide variety of individual investors...
New Super Lucky’s Tale comes to Switch on November 8
Playful Studios announced today that New Super Lucky’s Tale will be coming to Nintendo Switch on November 8. New Super Lucky’s Tale is a...
MTG invested $11 million in 7 startups in the first half of 2019
Modern Times Group (MTG) has invested $11 million in seven game and esports startups in the first half of 2019, making it one of...
Blake Harris talk — How ‘The History of the Future’ almost didn’t happen
Blake Harris is a historian of the video game wars. His first book — Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo and the Battle that defined a...
Modern Times Group invests in 11 U.S. and European game startups
Modern Times Group (MTG) said it has invested in 11 gaming startups during the past year or so. The Stockholm, Sweden-based MTG made the investments in...
The hero of Super Lucky’s Tale may be Microsoft’s long-awaited mascot
Super Lucky’s Tale is a platform game that debuts on November 7, the same day that Microsoft is launching its Xbox One X game...
Albert Penello: Microsoft’s best pitch for the Xbox One X
If the Xbox One X turns out to be a popular holiday purchase this fall, you might credit a lady bug. The console costs...
Super Lucky’s Tale — hands-on with Microsoft’s new mascot
Microsoft hopes that it has a new mascot character with Lucky, the star of Super Lucky’s Tale. The game from Playful is a sequel...
Player creativity is the future of gaming
Humans possess an insatiable desire to create, to build, and to shape the world around us. Examples span from rudimentary cave paintings, to the...