China thaws game-license freeze with 80 new approvals
China is finally permitting new games to begin earning revenue there for the first time since March. The country issued 80 licenses to primarily...
Discord Store plans to best Epic with 90/10 revenue split
The video game industry is witnessing the death of the standard revenue split for distribution platforms. For years, stores like Steam have taken 30...
RobotCache signs 22 publishers with 700 games for blockchain app store
RobotCache has signed up 22 publishers with 700 games for its alternative PC app store powered by blockchain technology. The announcement shows progress in...
Fortnite dev launches Epic Games Store that takes just 12% of revenue
The 30/70 revenue-sharing split that turned into something of an industry standard is on the ropes. Epic Games, the developer responsible for the Fortnite...
The DeanBeat: How game developers can drive our platforms forward
Last night, Pokèmon Go developer Niantic announced that it was investing in a round of funding for DigiLens, a maker of holographic displays for...
Discord gets its own Early Access program for unfinished games
The Early Access concept is coming to Discord. After launching its game store and subscription service in October, the communications platform is expanding with...
Steam is down for Valve’s regular Tuesday maintenance
It’s Tuesday evening in the United States, and that means somewhere within the bowels of Redmond, Washington, engineers are banging away at some Steam...
Steam is helping indies survive China’s new-game freeze
China hasn’t approved any new games for release since March 28. That’s slowing down the growth of country’s biggest publisher, Tencent, and just about every...
MapleStory 2 hits 1 million downloads
Nexon’s MapleStory 2 has already attracted a huge number of players. The publisher confirmed that more than 1 million people downloaded the game through...
The anatomy of a game-key scam
If you’ve heard of Steam-key scams, you know that most of them seem too obvious to fall for. But some scammers are running sophisticated,...