Heads up Steam! A new game distribution platform is coming to town. Brightlocker is a ground-breaking new platform that aims to bridge the gap between players, developers, and the gaming community in general by combining game distribution, development, funding, and streaming all into one. Kickstarter should probably keep an eye out on this one as well. “BrightLocker is the future [...]
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Earlier today Portalarium, the studio behind Shroud of the Avatar, announced their partnership with Neverdie Studios and their Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Neverdie Studios is led by Jon 'NEVERDIE' Jacobs, a virtual real estate magnate in the sandbox MMORPG Entropia Universe. He is best known for his Club NEVERDIE which he built on virtual land purchased for $100,000 in 2005. [...]
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Valve brought the ban hammer down on a record-breaking number of Steam users as their annual Summer Sale came to a close last week. Dot eSports reports The Valve Anti-Cheat system usually averages around 3,000-4,000 bans per day but on July 6th, the Steam database recorded a whopping 40,411 bans, around 30,000 of which were banned before 12pm ET. The [...]
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Back in 2003 a group of modders decided to create a custom game mode for Warcraft III called DotA. The mod was a huge hit and pretty soon a number of DotA clones, such as League of Legends by Riot Games and Heroes of Newerth by S2 Games, emerged from the woodworks and MOBAs became the next big thing in [...]
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Update 2022: The federal court in California dismissed Riot's claims about this lawsuit ultimately ruling that the case should be heard in China, not the United States. Riot has little chance of winning in China as they chose to sue in the U.S. knowing they had a better shot here. Tencent, Riot's owner, filed a lawsuit in China against Moonton's [...]
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Tencent's hit mobile game Honor of Kings (called Strike of Kings in the West) is apparently getting a bit TOO popular for its own good. So much so that it's widespread popularity (over 50M daily active users) led to some harsh criticism from The People's Daily, a Chinese language publication known to be affiliated with the Communist Party government. This [...]
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Overwatch may not be all sunshine and flowers. While Overwatch has surpassed 30 Million registered players, the game's competitive scene hasn't seen much growth. An article from Eurogamer talks about how there were many small-scale LAN tournaments, and online competitions that offered a decent sum of cash for Overwatch teams to test their mettle in a professional setting. However, since Blizzard [...]
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Chinese MMORPG developer Netdragon, the company best known for Conquer Online and Eudemons Online, acquired Neopets owner JumpStart this week. While not exactly huge news, it does follow the recent trend of Chinese studios continuing their acquisition spree of video game companies in the West. Chinese companies have already bought out popular games like Warframe, ARK: Survival Evolved, RuneScape, League [...]
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It’s been a year since Niantic unleashed Pokemon Go on the world, capturing the hearts of millions of players young and old alike, and even breaking a few world records in the process. So how is one of the highest grossing apps in history faring a year after its release? According to VentureBeat, Apptopia reports that Pokemon Go has earned [...]
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Final Fantasy XIV's turnaround story is one of the greatest in the industry. In 2010, FFXIV 1.0 was a disaster of a game, and was a stain upon the Final Fantasy legacy, but in 2013, it turned itself around completely with the launch of A Realm Reborn. Previously, we covered Noclip's documentary about exactly how Final Fantasy XIV 1.0 failed. Parts [...]
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