More than 60 million players have parachuted into Call of Duty: Warzone in the past 52 days since its launch, according to Activision Blizzard.
When Warzone launched on March 11, the U.S. was just going into a pandemic lockdown. Video game players needed something to do, and in its first month, the free-to-play game got more than 50 million downloads, or the same number that Electronic Arts and…
Activision Blizzard reported earnings today that beat expectations as the company saw a surge for its games because people are staying inside due to the pandemic.
The big video game publisher said that both Call of Duty: Warzone, a new battle royale mode for Call of Duty…
Electronic Arts delivered financial results today above Wall Street expectations. The publisher generated $1.39 billion in revenues for Q4, which beat the $1.19 billion that analysts were predicting. For EA’s fiscal 2020, it delivered revenues of $5.54 billion, which is up…
Electronic Arts revealed during its latest financial report today that Apex Legends was the most downloaded free-to-play game on PlayStation 4 in 2019, beating out other hits like Fortnite.
Apex Legends had a surprise launch in February 2019. The shock of its sudden release, along with the pedigree of developer Respawn Entertainment and an extensive marketing campaign that had popular streamers…
One of standout developers from the early days of PC gaming is back. MicroProse announced its return today along with three new games that are in development. As fans of the name MicroProse might expect, the studio is getting right back into the simulation and strategy…
Google today announced Web Vitals, an initiative to provide web developers and website owners with a unified set of metrics for building websites with user experience and performance in mind. Web Vitals is the set of quality signals that Google believes are “essential to…
Dazzle Rocks has raised $6.8 million in funding to bankroll its massively multiplayer online mobile game that is a sandbox world (think similar to Microsoft’s popular Minecraft).
Galaxy Interactive, via its Galaxy EOS VC Fund, led the round with additional participation by Spintop Ventures, Ken Lamb (Dazzle Rocks chairman and cofounder of Initial Capital), ByFounders, David Helgason, MTG, Sisu…
EA Play Live goes digital on June 11
May 4, 2020
Electronic Arts announced today that its EA Play Live digital event will broadcast on June 11 at 4 p.m. Pacific.
EA Play was an event that the publisher has held concurrent to the Electronic Entertainment Expo that takes place in Los Angeles each June. EA dropped out of that…
If you have gamers in your household, chances are one is playing Call of Duty: Warzone. The new battle royale mode for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare multiplayer arrived on March 10 just in time for the lockdown in the United States and elsewhere. And it’s become my game of…
Roblox vice president of developer relations Matt Curtis believes that the future of gaming is user-generated content (UGC), and he delved into the gaming world to show why in a talk at our GamesBeat Summit 2020 event this week.
In fact, Curtis said in his talk that this could explosion of UGC lead us to the Metaverse, the universe of virtual worlds that are all interconnected, like in novels such…
