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Esports expected to bring in over $463M in 2016 with America leading the charge
Research firm Newzoo BV has released a report predicting that the rapidly growing esports market could reach over $463 million in revenue this year, an increase of over 42 percent from last year. According to Newzoo, a large portion of that growth is coming from within the US and Canada, and it predicts that well ...
Smedley axes “Hero’s Song” Kickstarter campaign and opts for investment funding instead
Barely a week after announcing a new Kickstarter for a roguelike RPG called Hero’s Song, former Sony Online Entertainment boss John Smedley has decided to pull the plug on the crowdfunding campaign in favor of taking on investors instead. The game had already raised $136,849 of its $800,000 goal from over 3,000 backers. “After looking at ...
Korean MMO ‘Blade & Soul’ hits over 1M users within its first week in the West
NCSOFT Corp’s Blade & Soul has proven that there is still a market for MMO games in the West, provided of course that they do not cost anything. In just one week, the game’s player base has surged to over 1 million users. Originally released in South Korea in 2012, Blade & Soul arrived in the West ...
PlayStation’s headquarters is moving to California with the newly created Sony Interactive Entertainment
Sony Computer Entertainment Inc (SCE) has been the primary division responsible for development of the PlayStation at Sony Corp for over 20 years, but now that division is no more as the company has reorganized its media products under the umbrella of the newly created Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC. The new division is made up ...
You can now watch Pokemon’s 20th anniversary Super Bowl commercial
The Pokemon franchise will be turning 20 years old this year, and to celebrate that milestone, The Pokemon Company will be airing a commercial during the Super Bowl in two weeks, and it will also be releasing a number of nostalgia-inducing products at the end of February. Super Bowl commercials are notoriously expensive, and Pokemon’s ...
Mega Man spiritual successor ‘Mighty No 9’ delayed yet again
Delays for Kickstarter projects or even video games in general are not uncommon, but even the most jaded project backers may be surprised to hear that Mighty No 9, the spiritual successor to the original Mega Man series, has been delayed for a third time. “In preparation for the February release of Mighty No. 9 we have been ...
Blade & Soul: A fun action MMO with several minor annoyances
Developed by Korean studio NCSOFT Corp. (Lineage, Wildstar), Blade & Soul is an action MMO from 2012 that is just now making it to the West, and despite a few launch week hiccups, the game has rapidly developed a large following, consistently staying in the top 20 most watched games on Twitch since it released on January 19. The game has ...
‘Yandere Simulator’ becomes the latest game banned from Twitch
While Twitch generally has no problem allowing users to livestream mature games, there are still a handful of titles that have been banned outright, and the latest game to join that list is the currently in development Yandere Simulator. The solo developer behind Yandere Simulator, who simply goes by the name “YandereDev,” seems to have been taken by ...
The Overwatch beta will return in February with a new game mode
The closed beta for Blizzard Entertainment’s highly anticipated team-based shooter, Overwatch, will finally be returning in “mid-February,” and Blizzard says that it has plenty of new content to show for its months-long hiatus. Blizzard admitted that the Overwatch beta is returning a bit later than it had originally intended. “When we brought the Closed Beta offline last ...
Banner Saga dev: Don’t rely on a game engine unless you have the source code
Porting software from one platform to another can be incredibly difficult, and video games are no different. In a recent interview with Gamasutra, Stoic Studios co-founder John Watson talked about the difficulty his team faced when porting The Banner Saga from PC to consoles, and how much easier it would have been if the game had been ...
