Kabam’s leaders offer mobile gaming lessons and a bittersweet goodbye
Kabam was one of the most inspiring rags-to-riches stories of modern gaming. Founded in 2008 by former University of California at Berkeley students, it...
How Epic Games brought Fortnite home from the wilderness
Epic Games has evolved over the past few years from a game studio that makes one game at a time to a big self-publisher...
Turtle Rock’s Steve Goldstein believes the console game industry lacks risk takers
I’ve formed a lot of opinions about the game industry over the years. And I recently got the chance to spout them in a...
How Unity convinced investors it’s worth $2.6 billion
From what we hear, a lot of investors in Silicon Valley wanted to get in on Unity Technologies’ $400 million funding round. Unity received...
Clash of Clans’ Builder Base update is its biggest new content dump of 2017
Developer Supercell expands the battlefield in the biggest Clash of Clans update of 2017, featuring an all-new 1-on-1 battle mode. Nearly five years after its initial...
How Tencent’s WeGame is changing to compete with Steam in China
The world’s largest gaming company is taking on the world’s largest gaming platform. The number of Chinese Steam users has reached 17 million, based...
Tencent poured $90 million into Pocket Gems because of two shiny jewels
Mobile game publisher Pocket Gems announced today that it has raised $90 million in new funding from Chinese Internet company Tencent, which is also the...
How Jam City CEO Chris DeWolfe sees the freakin’ mobile game world
Chris DeWolfe did OK as a founder of MySpace. But it didn’t turn out to be Facebook. But he can’t complain. DeWolfe is now...
PC Gaming Weekly: China is Tencent’s turf, but Steam is quite safe in the West
When it comes to PC gaming, most of the world thinks of Steam first. It’s the biggest store and community for PC games, so...
Only Tencent could bring Rocket League to China
Rocket League is racing to a new country. Tencent, the biggest video game company in the world, is bringing the hit soccer-with-cars game to China. While Rocket League is available for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC as a paid game in the U.S., it will be free-to-play for PC only in China.