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Esports is a $612 million industry with over 164 million viewers, says SuperData
It is getting harder and harder to call Esports a niche market, as a new report by research firm SuperData Research Inc says that esports has become a $612 million industry. “In many ways competitive gaming seems, at least at first glance, to resemble traditional sports,” SuperData wrote in the report. “But to think that a new ...
Oculus Rift consumer version will finally arrive in early 2016
It has been a long road from Oculus VR’s initial Kickstarter campaign in 2012 to its $2 billion acquisition by Facebook, Inc. and eventual partnership with Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Now, after nearly three years, the company has finally announced that the consumer version of its Oculus Rift virtual reality headset will be hitting the market ...
Hearthstone’s mobile version pushes it past 30 million users
It is hard to believe that a card battling game has become one of the most successful video games on the market today, but somehow Blizzard Entertainment’s Heathstone: Heroes of Warcraft has managed to reach over 30 million players and reportedly earns $155,000 a day. “BY THE POWER OF RAGNAROS, 30 million players have joined ...
Boss Fight Entertainment nabs former Amazon Game Studios director
Dallas-based mobile game developer Boss Fight Entertainment has announced that former Amazon Game Studios director Dave Luehmann will be joining the company as VP of Production. Based out of a 105-year-old cotton mill in McKinney, Texas, Boss Fight is a descendent of sorts of Ensemble Studios, the now-defunct developer behind the Age of Empires series. Boss Fight ...
DRM-free Steam alternative GOG Galaxy enters open beta
PC gaming is already a crowded field when it comes to digital distribution platforms, with several developers all pushing their own clients. Electronic Arts, Inc. has Origin, Ubisoft Entertainment S.A. has UPlay and, of course, Valve Corp. has Steam. While all of these platforms have different games and features, they do have one thing in common: DRM. Warsaw-based GOG, ...
Facebook is using Nokia’s Here maps for mobile, Instagram, and Messenger
Finnish telecom Nokia has been looking to sell its Here maps business, which has been valued at over $2 billion, and it looks like it may have found a buyer in social media giant Facebook Inc. Reports surfaced today that Facebook has already signed a deal to use Here maps with its mobile site ...
Players reportedly getting banned from GTA Online for using mods in GTA V
This has been a rough couple of weeks for the modding community. First, there was the huge uproar that Valve Corp caused by the sudden introduction and even more sudden removal of paid mods on Steam. Many players are still feeling burned by Steam (pun 100 percent intended), and now it looks like Rockstar ...
Nintendo apologizes to fans for Amiibo scarcity
It is no secret that gamers are crazy about amiibo, Nintendo Co Ltd’s small NFC-enabled toys that interact with certain games on Wii U or 3DS. GameStop learned that lesson first hand when overeager consumers crashed the game seller’s website in a rush to pre-order the easily sold out toys. Lack of supply has been ...
Mobile game revenues may outpace consoles by 2018
The video game industry has been dominated by the home game console since the early 1990s, and it has only been in the last few years that mobile games for tablets and smartphones have started challenge consoles’ place in the revenue hierarchy. According to a new report by research firm Digi-Capital, revenues on mobile games ...
Pinterest unlocks its data with new developer platform
Social bookmarking site Pinterest has been slowly doling out APIs to get developers onto its platform, such as its Marketing Developer Partners API that was launched last week to give businesses more control over their advertising campaigns on the site. Now, Pinterest is opening up access to the site’s data more than ever with the ...