Unity has just announced in a recent blog post that the game engine will now be offering support for development on the upcoming Xbox One X. With the Xbox One X's demanding 4K HDR output, scaling projects with Unity's support is "as easy as changing some quality settings". The process of developing for Xbox One X is the same as [...]
Read more
This was quite surprising to read - Secret World Legends is coming to television in a TV Series called The Secret World. It's still a bit hard to digest, truth be told, and there is no definitive date on when this will air. Based on the source article over at Deadline, the TV adaptation will be written by James V. Hart, known [...]
Read more
Today marks the highly anticipated worldwide release of Starcraft Remastered, the retrofitted remake of the original Starcraft. Starcraft Remastered has taken the world by storm, with many fans eager to relive the glory days of the iconic game, however South Korea's "PC Bangs" (the local term for internet cafes) are less than happy with Blizzard Korea's new pricing scheme for [...]
Read more
Earlier this year, Blizzard announced that they would be retiring the Battle.net brand. The company claimed that "there’s been occasional confusion and inefficiencies related to having two separate identities under which everything falls—Blizzard and Battle.net." The renamed launcher was titled Blizzard App. The move was met with indifference by new players and derision by old fans. In the end, the [...]
Read more
Update: Bluehole has denied these rumors. No investment has been made. Bluehole commented “These reports are not accurate. Tencent didn't make an investment into Bluehole.” Last week, Chinese news sources reported that Tencent had taken a stake in Korean MMO studio Bluehole. According to the report, the Chinese tech giant tried to buyout the privately held Korean firm but was [...]
Read more
Indie MMO developer Novaquark announced yesterday that they raised $3.7M from private investors to continue the development of their upcoming game Dual Universe. This recent fundraising brings their total funding to $7.4 million, which includes the $670K they raised from Kickstarter. According to their original Kickstarter page, they expect to deliver the game in December, 2018. Dual Universe is an [...]
Read more
Nexon reported their Q2 2017 earnings report today and it showed a 23% increase in revenue year over year. Nexon attributed the strong quarter to Dungeon Fighter Online in China and the game's 9th anniversary update. Mobile game revenue as a percent of total sales were 24% and PC was 76%. As with previous quarters, China and Korea made up [...]
Read more
Gamers will be happy to hear that Discord will finally be adding the much-needed videochat feature to its popular voicechat platform. According to a recent blog post, Discord has announced that 5% of its users will have access to the testing phase of its newly-added videochat and screenshare functions. Videochat will be limited to DMs and group DMs. Up to [...]
Read more
Webzen reported Q2 2017 earnings today and while revenues increased 1% quarter over quarter, they were down 19% year over year. Total game revenue for the quarter was $38.19 million. The Mu Franchise continued to bring in the vast majority of the company's revenues (Mu Origin, Mu: Online, Mu Legend, etc) at 77% of total revenues. Unfortunately, we still have [...]
Read more
Soon after Google's DeepMind AI project beat the world's best Go players, the company announced a partnership with Activision Blizzard. Deepmind's target this time was the RTS Starcraft 2. That was back in November 2016. Fast forward to today and we're finally seeing the fruit of that partnership. Blizzard has just released a public API (application program interface) with an [...]
Read more