GamesBeat Summit Watch every session from the annual event On Demand Watch Now Game studios all too often find themselves stuck in the same situation: Production should be underway, but the dev team is still somewhere in discovery mode. Rather than execution and content-build being in full flow, time is …
Read More »EA Mobile reels in Jeff Karp from Big Fish Games
VB Transform The AI event for business leaders Hosted Online July 15 – 17 Learn More Jeff Karp, the president of mobile game maker Big Fish Games, has resigned from that post to become the head of Electronic Arts’ mobile game division, GamesBeat has learned. Yes, I have to make …
Read More »Xbox Games Showcase: Microsoft comes out in force
VB Transform The AI event for business leaders Hosted Online July 15 – 17 Learn More Microsoft showed off an amazing array of games at its Xbox Games Showcase today to prepare fans for the holiday launch of the Xbox Series X game console. The company didn’t disclose the launch …
Read More »China removes Supercell’s Hay Day and 2,500 other games from iOS app store
VB Transform The AI event for business leaders Hosted Online July 15 – 17 Learn More Last Chance: Register for Transform, VB’s AI event of the year, hosted online July 15-17. The Chinese government has cracked down on unlicensed mobile games in China’s Apple App Store, removing more than 2,500 …
Read More »Devolver Digital celebrates wacky indie video games coming in 2020
VB Transform The AI event for business leaders Hosted Online July 15 – 17 Learn More Take the latest VB Survey to share how your company is implementing AI today. Devolver Digital unveiled its wacky and wondrous indie video games coming in 2020 and 2021 — all showcased in a …
Read More »Games for Change honors Gordon Bellamy of USC Games and Gay Gaming Professionals
Games For Change is honoring educator Gordon Bellamy with its prestigious Vanguard Award for his role as a game industry leader and LGBTQ+ champion. Games For Change is a nonprofit taht runs the game conference and festival, promoting the power of games for social impact. It takes place on July 14 …
Read More »Tom Hall interview — Why Doom co-creator is making virtual reality games
Tom Hall is a versatile game designer with more than three decades of experience. He has worked on hardcore games such as Doom, Duke Nukem, Rise of the Triad, Wolfenstein 3-D, and Anachronox. But he has also shown interest in the broader craft of making games for other platforms, and …
Read More »Epic Games Store is seeing near-Steam-like engagement levels
The Epic Games Store is hitting its stride. Epic revealed today that its PC gaming portal hit 61 million monthly active players on PC. It also had an average peak-concurrent player count of 13 million on PC. This came as Epic gave away free games as part of “The Vault” …
Read More »Polyient Games will invest in early-stage startups making blockchain games infrastructure
Blockchain gaming has to walk before it runs. That’s why Polyient Games, a spinoff of incubator Polyient Labs, is starting to invest in early-stage infrastructure companies that will enable blockchain games. Blockchain is the technology that uses peer-to-peer decentralized networking to build a transparent and secure ledger. It is the …
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