February 24, 2016
Forge Looks To Make It Easy To Save Short Clips In Gaming Sessions
Jared Kim might not be the best gamer — but he still wants to be able to share highlights from his sessions, and save them to remember them…
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February 24, 2016
Farmville Co-Creator Mark Skaggs Joins Indian Mobile Gaming Startup Moonfrog Labs
The distance between Zynga’s offices in the United States and a gaming startup in Bengaluru might seem far, but it was a straightforward road for Mark Skaggs, who…
Read articleFebruary 23, 2016
Activision Blizzard Closes Its $5.9B Acquisition Of King, Makers Of Candy Crush
Activision Blizzard today announced that it has closed its acquisition of King Digital for $5.9 billion, a deal that it says makes it the largest game network in…
Read articleFebruary 23, 2016
Razer Raises At A $1.5B Valuation, With $75M From China’s Digital Grid For Immersive Gaming
Razer, the gaming technology company based out of Southern California, has raised another round of funding, a Series C that values it at $1.5 billion, TechCrunch has learned.…
Read articleFebruary 21, 2016
HTC-Valve’s Vive VR Headset Will Cost $799, Bundled With Two Controllers
HTC has just dropped the most salient detail for anyone wanting to immerse themselves in the virtual reality experience it’s been cooking up with Valve for the past…
Read articleFebruary 18, 2016
Google Decouples Play Games From Google+, Lets Gamers Choose Their Own Names And Avatars
Until today, you needed a Google+ account to use Google Play Games, Google’s online gaming service for bringing online multiplayer gaming, video recordings and social features like profiles…
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You Can Now Play Pong On Your Apple Watch
The Apple Watch is good for many things – quickly answering texts and incoming calls, receiving important notifications, navigating your way through city streets, and more. But it…
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Survios’ First-Person Shooter Shows How Addictive VR Will Be
I want to play again. My arms are sore from shooting a virtual bow-and-arrow and slashing robots with a lightsaber. My heart is racing from dodging drone missiles…
Read articleFebruary 11, 2016
Twitch’s Users Watch More Video In A Month, On Average, Than Typical YouTube Users Do
Twitch, the Amazon-owned video game streaming site, has been growing in popularity as more of today’s younger users look to online video instead of traditional television for entertainment.…
Read articleFebruary 10, 2016
From Nokia’s Snake Game To Supercell, Finland’s Gaming Industry Is Serious Business
In September last year, Finland’s finance minister Alexander Stubb dubbed the country as the new sick man of Europe and while the country’s economy is fledgling and signs…
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