The console gaming world could be about to get a lot more open. For a long time, Sony was resistant to let people play PS4 games with their friends on other platforms. It cracked open the door with a cross-play beta for Fortnite a little over a year ago, and now it’s allowing all developers to make use of cross-platform capabilities.
Over the last 12 months, games such as Rocket League…
Call of Duty: Mobile has reached 20 million installs and has earned $2 million so far, according to market analyst Sensor Tower.
The mobile version of Activision Blizzard’s hit shooter franchise launched on October 1 for Android and iOS. Some of those numbers from Sensor…
What’s a sports game developer supposed to do when the sport they simulate stops making sense? This is the question facing 2K Sports after a bizarre offseason in the NBA left the league in chaos. But 2K has to put out their yearly product, and NBA 2K20 came out like…
Rune has raised $2 million in funding in its effort to use artificial intelligence to help find friends for mobile gamers.
Rune is a Y Combinator accelerator grad, and it was built by two doctoral students who dropped out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Sanjay Guruprasad and Bjarke Felbo. They started their company by asking a simple question: Can AI find you friends?
Users have…
Super Mario Maker 2 now lets you play online with friends
October 2, 2019
Nintendo has released an update for Super Mario Maker 2 that gives players the ability to play online with their friends.
Super Mario Maker 2 came out for the Switch on June 28. Unlike its predecessor, it lets multiple players go through levels at the same time. But if you…
Nintendo has finally rolled out the ability to play with friends online in Super Mario Maker 2. The game launched with online co-op and competitive modes, but you could only play with random people via matchmaking. If you wanted to play with friends, it would have to be via…
How to pair a PS4 or Xbox controller with your iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, or Android device
October 2, 2019
The DualShock 4 and Xbox One controllers were originally made to work on their respective consoles, but thanks to Apple’s recent software updates, you can more easily pair them via Bluetooth with your iOS 13 device, iPadOS tablet, or your Apple TV via tvOS 13. Android 10 makes it super easy to pair either controller, too, and you can pair with previous versions of Android and iOS as well.
This…
Call of Duty: Mobile now available for Android
October 1, 2019
In the past few years, first person shooting games have come a long way and the battle royale genre has risen in popularity with games like Fortnite and PUBG. Even smartphone makes have created an entire new genre of smartphones focused on the mobile gamer like Asus ROG II…
Call of Duty: Mobile came out today, but it has already earned 3 million installs according to market analyst Sensor Tower.
The first mobile version of the giant shooter franchise is the No. 1 free iOS app in the U.S. and 32 other markets. It is in the top five in 30…
TwitchCon was a reminder that streamers are big business
October 1, 2019
The internet is real life, but the place where the internet meets real life is still messy as hell. TwitchCon, which was held at San Diego’s convention center this year — the same place where the biggest comic con in America happens every year — is the site of one of those collisions, where IRL meets URL. I just got back from the convention floor, which was a riot of people of different…
