Twitch viewers watched 1.902 billion hours of content in January, according to StreamElements’ latest State of the Stream Report. Per Rainmaker.gg’s data, January’s viewership is up 6% which gives Twitch the highest monthly total since Q2 2023.
January’s daily viewership averaged 61.4 million hours watched. This means viewers watched 3.7 million more hours per day in January compared to…
Minecraft is reviving lost Universal Studios rides
February 14, 2024
Universal and Minecraft are teaming up for an in-game theme park experience.
The Minecraft DLC, dubbed Universal Studios Experience, is out now. It lets you visit classic Universal rides, including some that have long left the real world. This is especially exciting for a…
Midnight plans to aggregate games inside Web3 Evergreen MMORPG
February 13, 2024
In a white paper, Midnight announced that it plans to aggregate a bunch of games inside its Evergreen massively multiplayer online role-playing game.
Evergreen is a game as well as a first publishing platform that operates as a deconstructed, composable MMORPG, delivering an…
Why Gaming for Good is a cause to get behind | interview
February 13, 2024
I’ve caught up with Mathias Gredal Nørvig, CEO of Sybo, and Jude Ower, CEO of Playmob, to hear them talk about their book Gaming for Good in the past year. Their book is finally out today.
We talked about it during the Game Developers Conference in 2023, the Games for Change 2023 event at the UN in New York, at the Web Summit in Portugal in November 2023. That’s because I can’t think of a…
Knuckles Super Bowl trailer spins off Sonic movies into streaming
February 12, 2024
The trailer for the upcoming Knuckles series aired during the Super Bowl. The upcoming Paramount+ show — debuting April 26, 2024 — marks the first spin off of the Sonic the Hedgehog movies starring James Marsden, Jim Carrey and Ben Schwartz. The titular echidna debuted…
Lightforge Games, a studio formed by industry veterans from Epic Games and Blizzard, announced the development of Project O.R.C.S., an online role-playing game with collaborative storytelling.
With aspirations to redefine the RPG landscape, Project O.R.C.S. introduces a…
Take-Two FY3Q results down as NBA 2K24 and mobile ads fall short
February 9, 2024
Take-Two Interactive reported results for the third fiscal quarter ended December 31 that fell short of its expectations as mobile ads and NBA 2K24 revenues were lower than expected.As a result of the shortfall, Take-Two said that it is planning a cost-reduction program that is more extensive than the one it undertook last year in the wake of its $12.7 billion acquisition of Zynga. That language…
Disney invests $1.5B in Fortnite maker Epic Games to build a persistent game universe
February 8, 2024
Disney is investing $1.5 billion for an equity stake in Fortnite and Unreal Engine maker Epic Games as part of a broader partnership to create a new Disney gaming universe.
The companies plan to create an expansive and open games and entertainment universe. I would say…
Roblox Corporation today gave its latest earnings report, for the last quarter of 2023 and the full year together. The company reported strong growth across the quarter, with substantial increases in bookings and daily active users. Some of the losses have also grown at the…
Nintendo beats December quarter expectations and ups forecast to 15.5M Switch units in fiscal year
February 7, 2024
Nintendo reported quarterly results on Tuesday that beat its previous forecasts and it said it now expects to sell 15.5 million Switch consoles during the fiscal year ending March 31, 2024.
The Kyoto, Japan-based game company said net sales were $4 billion, down 6% from a year ago but up from $3.82 billion that analysts had expected. Net profit was $920 million, up 18% from a year ago and above…
