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Electronic Arts announced today that it has partnered with Industrial Toys to make a new Battlefield game for mobile devices. The title will launch in 2022.
The big game publisher has seen the results of getting a mobile version right — by watching the success of rival Activision with its 300 million downloads…
Rob Kostich interview: After 400 million Call of Duty games sold, Activision still has big plans ahead
April 22, 2021
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The Call of Duty franchise is one of the strongest in video games, with more than 400 million copies sold to date.
Call of Duty: Warzone and Call of Duty: Black Ops — Cold War are moving…
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Call of Duty: Black Ops — Cold War gets its big Season 3 update tonight with four more multiplayer maps, six new weapons, and a new chapter of Zombies in Outbreak.
At noon Thursday, the…
PlayStation may battle Xbox Game Pass with movies and TV
April 22, 2021
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Sony’s secret weapon in its efforts to compete with Xbox Game Pass may include movies and television. The company posted key art for something called PlayStation Plus Video Pass earlier today. And Sony’s Polish website included the following translated copy regarding this new service (by way of Video Games…
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Mario Kart Tour has reached two important milestones, according to mobile market analyst Sensor Tower, racing past 200 million downloads and $200 million in lifetime revenue on both iOS and…
Bandai Namco launches new Tamagotchi Pix toy
April 21, 2021
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For months last year, during the pain and the angst of the pandemic, I was obsessed with my Tamagotchi. I figured out how to keep my virtual pet alive for a while, play little minigames with the…
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Microsoft is removing the Xbox Live Gold gate for free-to-play games today. For years, the company required an active membership to Gold to play games like Apex Legends and Fortnite. This was different from both Nintendo and Sony, which enabled online access for free games on Switch and PlayStation. Now, Xbox has…
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During its Game Stack Live event this week for developers, Microsoft revealed that it is incorporating AMD’s FidelityFX tools directly into the Xbox Series X/S game development kit. This enables…
Hackers exploit SonicWall email security vulnerability
April 21, 2021
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(Reuters) — Hackers have targeted customers of California-based network services firm SonicWall via a previously undisclosed vulnerability in its email security product, the company and…
Call of Duty: Warzone hits 100 million downloads
April 21, 2021
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Call of Duty: Warzone has crossed into new territory with 100 million downloads since its launch in March 2020.
The free-to-play game debuted as a battle royale mode for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare on March 10, 2020, just as lockdown began in the United States. Like many other games, it became immensely popular…