Gaming

The flavor and mechanics of role-playing games are all over the industry these days. The way you build skills, statistics, gear, and even worlds borrow from the ideas we first saw in tabletop war games, Strat-O-Matic Baseball, and Dungeons & Dragons. But I know where RPGs have been. I’m more interested in where they’re going. So I’m going to spend the rest of 2021 talking to people…

Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. PUBG Mobile has earned $5.1 billion in lifetime sales, according to market analyst Sensor Tower. This comes as Tencent itself touts that the battle royale game has passed the 1 billion downloads mark. That means that PUBG Mobile is earning about $5 for every download. Last year was a big one for the…

Valve published a list of Steam’s February 2021 top 20 new releases, and it shouldn’t surprise anyone that the early access megahit Valheim is on the list. But the company also highlighted a trend toward games with puzzle-heavy mechanics. Those include The Room 4: Old Sins, Cyber Manhunt, and Little Nightmaers II. You can see more about the games that cracked Steam’s February top 2020 on the…

Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. Roblox is making a big splash out of its eight annual Bloxy Awards with a halftime musical performance by the British rock duo Royal Blood. It’s the latest example of how its metaverse for user-generated content extends beyond games. Roblox wants to build the metaverse, the universe of virtual worlds…