My favorite Purple Moon games revolved around eighth grader Rockett Movado. Each title centered on a significant day (or days) in her life. At crucial points in the story, the narrative would cut to Rockett…
The Switch is one of Nintendo's most successful and influential systems ever. There’s something unique about carrying a home-console-quality gaming device everywhere you go. Figuring out what to play, though—that's getting harder every year, as…
Eventually, Stadia Games and Entertainment teams got the software and people it needed to gain momentum prototyping Stadia games. The allure of a Google-sized paycheck and an exit ramp from the crunch-fueled hamster wheel was…
So, just to be clear, there’s no date on it? You’re doing your best and it will happen when it happens?We’re doing our best. I was just looking at the supply figures for the UK…
Video games have become an increasingly vital form of entertainment for many people over the course of the last year. They’re immersive in a way that television and books aren’t, and often engage that part…
What’s the most romantic date you can think of? Strolling hand in hand through a park in Paris, a candlelit dinner on a New York rooftop … or tag-teaming Para-Biddybuds with Princess Peach? This year…
For Empress, cracking titles like Red Dead Redemption 2 and Immortals Fenyx Rising is more than a pastime. It's a mission.
The future of virtual reality is far more than just video games. Silicon Valley sees the creation of virtual worlds as the ultimate free-market solution to a political problem. In a world of increasing wealth…
In 2014, Riot Games' then-executive assistant Melanie McCracken began to notice that her supervisor, Jin Oh, didn’t seem to hire women into senior leadership vacancies. Women were generally brought on as assistants, she said in…
Retention was allegedly a crucial aspect of Apple’s strategy shift in 2020, which involved canceling contracts of games in development while seeking others that “better retain subscribers.” As Bloomberg reported, an Apple Arcade representative cited…