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Israel’s Toya creates social games for girls on Roblox

March 11, 2020

Toya is a game studio that makes social games on top of Roblox, but it is different because it is making games with girls and women in mind. Roblox has 115 million monthly active players, and people engage with it more than 1.5 billion hours a month. The top games are getting more than a billion plays, and so it should come as no surprise that startups are forming to make products for this…

Command & Conquer Remastered Collection debuts on Steam and Origin on June 5

March 11, 2020

Twenty years ago, I remember interviewing Joe Kucan, an emerging star of video game acting, for his role as the villainous Kane of Command & Conquer. His bald head and mean face epitomized why the player had to save the world from this evil. And now he’s coming back.

Zynga cofounder builds Gala network for decentralized gaming

March 11, 2020

Blockchain Game Partners is building a blockchain-based infrastructure dubbed Gala to enable games where players own their own content and platforms don’t fleece developers for the games that they create. It’s the brainchild of Eric Schiermeyer, the founder and CEO of…

March Nintendo Direct in the works with focus on 2020 lineup

March 11, 2020

The next Nintendo Direct is in the works. The publisher hasn’t confirmed the event yet, but it’s in the final stages of putting the video presentation together. That’s based on what we’re hearing as well as some other indicators. Expect a Nintendo Direct soon. The company is penciling in one of its indie showcases (like the one it released around GDC 2019) for next week — likely March…

Ubisoft Paris gets new managing director to oversee 700 employees

March 6, 2020

Ubisoft has one of the most intricate and coordinated development cultures in the entire games industry. That’s one of the reasons it’s putting company veteran Marie-Sophie de Waubert in the role of managing director at Ubisoft Paris. Running the Paris studio requires a…

Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous — Adapting a tabletop RPG campaign for a PC game

March 6, 2020

Whenever I think of adapting tabletop role-playing campaigns to a PC game, my mind goes to Temple of Elemental Evil. It’s one of the seminal modules of Dungeons & Dragons, and in 2003, Troika Games released a near 1-to-1 conversion of it as a PC game. And boy, did it…

Call of Duty Endowment placed 11,000 veterans into jobs in 2019

March 6, 2020

In 2019, the Call of Duty Endowment placed more than 11,000 veterans into high-quality jobs and raised funding to place 16,000 more. Now in its tenth year, the charitable group said it has placed more than 66,000 veterans into jobs to date, thanks to help from grantees, corporate partners, the gaming community, and Activision Blizzard employees. The organization said it is well on its way to…

Google Stadia is rolling out 4K streaming on the web

March 5, 2020

Google is finally fulfilling a key promise for Stadia by rolling out 4K gaming on the web, according to 9to5Google and several Reddit users. You’ll need a Stadia Pro subscription and fast internet connection to use the feature, with Google specifying a minimum…

Ghosts of Tsushima unsheathes its PS4 sword on June 26

March 5, 2020

Sony announced today that Ghosts of Tsushima will come out for PlayStation 4 on June 26. Ghosts of Tsushima is a samurai action-adventure game from Sucker Punch Studios, the developer behind other notable PlayStation exclusives like the Sly Cooper and Infamous series. It’s…

Zynga unveils Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells match-3 mobile game

March 5, 2020

Zynga is unveiling the limited launch of Harry Potter: Puzzles & Spells, a new match-3 mobile game in partnership with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. Bernard Kim, president of publishing at Zynga, said in an interview with GamesBeat that the game is in limited testing now in the Philippines, and it will launch after Zynga evaluates the feedback from users. (Kim will be a speaker at…