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Connyct social media app for college students opens early access

Friday, October 4, 2024 by Austin Harris

What if social media could step beyond mere media consumption and instead create communities and bring people together? Linking online content with communities and real-world experiences, the new social app Connyct ‘connects’ real people with real passions, all powered by a proprietary platform integrating an extensive library of licensed music clips through...

NIKKE and EVANGELION collab announced by Level Infinite

Friday, August 23, 2024 by Russ Scritchfield

Level Infinite, a gaming brand dedicated to delivering high-quality experiences to a global audience, announced that GODDESS OF VICTORY: NIKKE, the mobile sci-fi RPG shooter developed by SHIFT UP, will feature a limited-time crossover event with Evangelion, the beloved anime series. This collaboration will take place for a limited time and features characters, outfits a...

Royal Revolt Warriors coming to PC

Monday, July 29, 2024 by Austin Harris

The developer Upright Games is starting a new chapter in the popular Royal Revolt series: With Royal Revolt Warriors, the German developer will bring familiar characters from the successful mobile games series into a new PC adventure. Royal Revolt Warriors: A top-down roguelite with co-op mode coming to PC In Royal Revolt Warriors, players will reunite with t...

Apple Immersive Video series premiere on Apple Vision Pro

Friday, July 26, 2024 by Richard Harris

Apple is releasing all-new series and films captured in Apple Immersive Video that will debut exclusively on Apple Vision Pro. Apple Immersive Video is a remarkable storytelling format that leverages 3D video recorded in 8K with a 180-degree field of view and Spatial Audio to transport viewers to the center of the action. Apple Immersive Video series premiere on Appl...

GDCA 2024 nominees and honorable mentions revealed

Friday, January 26, 2024 by Freeman Lightner

The finalists for the 24th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards, the peer-based video game event celebrating the industry’s top games and developers, have been revealed. The winners in all categories will be honored at the Game Developers Choice Awards (GDCA) ceremony, which takes place at the 2024 Game Developers Conference (GDC) on Wednesday, March 20, and is he...

Slime Rancher 2 gets major updates

Monday, October 16, 2023 by Brittany Hainzinger

Slime Rancher is a life simulation adventure video game developed and published by Monomi Park. First released in 2017, the game is available for multiple platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4. In Slime Rancher, players take on the role of Beatrix LeBeau, a rancher who travels to a distant planet known as the "Far, Far Range...

GPS tracker app celebrates 10 years in the app store with a new update

Wednesday, September 20, 2023 by Freeman Lightner

When it comes to the world of GPS tracking, the Chirp GPS app stands out for its user-friendliness. It has ranked highly in the app store since 2011, and has consistently consistently set the bar higher for GPS tracking apps. They've just rolled out a new update that simplifies the process of tracking friends, belongings, and shared adventures even further. GPS T...

IGF Awards winners for 2023

Wednesday, March 29, 2023 by Brittany Hainzinger

Cosmo D Studios' Betrayal At Club Low won the Seumas McNally Grand Prize for Best Independent Game at the 25th annual Independent Games Festival (IGF) Awards tonight. The IGF Awards honors the most innovative and excellent independent games of the past year and took place as part of the 2023 Game Developers Conference (GDC) at the Moscone Convention Center...

$50M in funding raised by Theorycraft Games

Wednesday, October 19, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger

Theorycraft Games has announced an additional $50 million raised in Series B funding, led by Makers Fund with participation from NEA and a16z. Theorycraft Games will use this raise to continue building out the most talent-dense team in games and to ensure they can keep making deep, 10,000-hour games that are just better when played with friends, like the company’s...

Crossword game Test Express Word Adventure launches

Tuesday, August 23, 2022 by Freeman Lightner

GameHouse has announced Text Express: Word Adventure, a vast and challenging emergent crossword puzzle game with an exciting and visual adventure narrative and huge variety in gameplay; spanning 3,500 levels, 37 destinations, over 95 speaking characters, and thousands of unique crossword puzzles. This beautiful and unique puzzle game is packed with rich environments to ...

3GoPlay subscription platform launches

Thursday, June 2, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger

Gameloft Business Solutions has announced the launch of 3GoPlay. This new game subscription platform will bring hundreds of the world's best mobile games into the hands of Hutchison users in countries that offer the "All You Can Play" subscription model. This includes critically acclaimed premium titles such as Asphalt Nitro 2, Lego Legacy: Heroe...

NFT game Superior unveiled

Thursday, March 24, 2022 by Freeman Lightner

Gala Games, the blockchain gaming platform, unveiled its latest game franchise Superior, a roguelite 3rd person shooter where players start out unpowered and outgunned, as they hunt the evil "superheroes" down, steal their powers and take on even tougher challenges. Developed by Drifter who created hit VR games: Robo Recall and Lies Beneath, Superior is l...

Mobile game developers are capturing female audiences

Tuesday, December 7, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger

Browsing social networks can be addictive and can cause feelings of inadequacy and isolation, even depression, say mental health professionals. However, when it comes to mobile gaming, the situation is not so dire. On the contrary, used in moderation, it could help people boost positive well-being, according to various sources. Traditionally considered a domain for m...

SnykCon 2021 event lineup

Friday, September 24, 2021 by Randall Degges

We're only a few weeks away from SnykCon 2021, Snyk's free annual developer conference that helps you learn how to build applications securely running October 5-7. We have a packed agenda full of expert talks, hands-on workshops, helpful demos, product roadmaps, opportunities to interact with some of the smartest speakers and leaders of developer security i...

Game Developers Choice Awards at GDC 2021

Monday, August 2, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger

Organizers of the 21st annual Game Developers Choice Awards (GDCA) have revealed the recipients of this year’s Pioneer Award and Lifetime Achievement Award. Tom Fulp, creator of Newgrounds and trailblazer of the Macromedia Flash games that helped define a generation of indie developers, will receive the Pioneer Award, while influential game designer with 28 years ...

NextNav releases a Unity plug-in for Pinnacle

Thursday, December 10, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger

NextNav announced the release of a Unity plug-in for its vertical positioning service, Pinnacle, which delivers precise altitude data to unlock 3D experiences for geolocation applications. NextNav’s Unity plug-in makes it easy for developers to integrate vertical location into any application built with the Unity engine, including games, training applications, ind...

Keep kids busy with SugarCoded by SmartGurlz

Friday, April 3, 2020 by Freeman Lightner

Are you looking for constructive ways to keep your children stimulated and engaged during the COVID-19 school shutdown? SmartGurlz founder Sharmi Albrechtsen beat out 40,000 other entrepreneurs on ABC's Shark Tank and negotiated with guest "shark" Richard Branson, before closing a deal with Daymond John on her line of groundbreaking toys that use an a...

John Choi has joined as Vice President of User Acquisition (UA)

Friday, January 24, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger

ConsumerAcquisition.com announced that John Choi has joined as Vice President of User Acquisition (UA). Choi joins the company with a wealth of experience in user acquisition from his most recent role as Head of UA at Zynga overseeing games like Words With Friends, CSR Racing, Zynga Poker, and his previous UA roles at Kabam, Glu Mobile and CAPCOM. Choi will b...

SignEasy chats about iOS 13, developers, and connecting with customers

Thursday, October 17, 2019 by Richard Harris

SignEasy just made an announcement that they are the latest Apple mobility partner, joining a select group of business solution providers within the Apple enterprise ecosystem with a common goal of helping businesses reimagine their workflows on iPhone and iPad. This relationship allows SignEasy to tap into Apple's expertise in design and customer expe...

Northwest Arkansas tech summit returns in 2019

Friday, September 6, 2019 by Brittany Hainzinger

The Northwest Arkansas Tech Summit is returning to Northwest Arkansas for its 7th year, introducing a conversation among leaders in business and technology to enhance, diversify and prepare Northwest Arkansas for its future. The theme for the year is ‘What’s Next … After Next,’ which will allow attendees and participants to look beyond where ...

Harry Potter Wizards Unite event coming to the city of Indianapolis

Tuesday, July 2, 2019 by Brittany Hainzinger

Niantic, Inc. and WB Games, in collaboration with the City of Indianapolis, announced the first ever real-world event for Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, the hit augmented reality (AR) mobile game played by millions of wizards and witches around the world, will be coming to Indianapolis from August 31 - September 1. The Harry Potter: Wizards Unite Fan Festival will take pl...

The Game of the Year winner is God of War announced at GDC 19

Friday, March 22, 2019 by Brittany Hainzinger

Sony Santa Monica & Sony Interactive Entertainment’s epic reimagining of the intense action/adventure series, God of War, was honored with the prize for Game of the Year at the 19th annual Game Developers Choice Awards (GDCA) ceremony during the 2019 Game Developers Conference (GDC) at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco. Sony’s God of War tel...

National Geographic just updated their app

Monday, January 14, 2019 by Richard Harris

National Geographic just launched a new mobile app that is available in the Apple App Store and Google Play Store to customers in the U.S. and Canada. Compatible with both Android and iOS smartphones and tablets, the app provides users with a personalized digital experience that includes access to the National Geographic magazine archives, an immense photo library, digi...

Developing video games that work for everyone

Monday, January 14, 2019 by Matias Nicolas Rodriguez

Video games are interactive experiences – as the player, you can live many different lives racing fast cars, fighting great creatures and going on exciting, magical adventures. For as long as video games companies have existed, the focus has been largely on games that are fun to play. Of course, though, we’ve all had to sit out a round and wait for a free...

Independent Games Festival finalists and ceremony at GDC 2019

Friday, January 4, 2019 by Richard Harris

The Independent Games Festival (IGF) has revealed the finalists for its 21st annual awards ceremony. The IGF Awards will take place March 20th, 2019 at 6.30pm PT during the Game Developers Conference 2019, and will be hosted by Meg Jayanth, the award-winning writer of 80 Days, the acclaimed globetrotting interactive storytelling game and former IGF Award winner for Exce...

What game developers can learn from Fortnite's rise

Friday, December 28, 2018 by Richard Harris

Fortnite took over the video game world in 2018 and reached over $1 billion in sales, reaching every gaming fan with experiences on all the major consoles, mobile operating systems and even streaming platforms like Twitch. However, Fortnite seems to have reached a plateau with a recent study by StreamElements revealing viewership of the game has steadily declined since ...

Retro gaming talk with Matthew Thomas of Storytellers Entertainment

Tuesday, November 20, 2018 by Richard Harris

Storytellers Entertainment, an emerging game studio, seeks to revive fantasy retro gaming with its serialized fantasy based, solo-RPG. Matthew Thomas and Bill Munns are the creative heads behind their game “Imperium Omni”. Matthew grew up in Southern California, where he went to college at age 16 later on, and earned a degree in Computer Programming ...

New game studio wants to bring back fantasy based retro gaming

Tuesday, November 6, 2018 by Richard Harris

An emerging game studio, Storytellers Entertainment, is hoping to spark a new generation of fantasy based retro gaming with the development of “Imperium Omni”, a four part serialized solo-RPG set in the vast fictional world of Aeris Pri. The game is to be released on PC with future expansion to Xbox and PS4 console platforms. The company, established by f...

Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures app launches by Mattel

Tuesday, September 18, 2018 by Austin Harris

Barbie is giving an inside look into her famous Dreamhouse with the launch of Barbie Dreamhouse Adventures, a brand new app based on the animated Netflix series by the same title that’s now available on Android devices. The popular iOS version, which debuted on the App Store last month, has already hit the #1 spot for Top iPad Kids App in 100+ countries. Just i...

You can now rent sports gear with Rental Pal

Monday, April 23, 2018 by Austin Harris

Rental Pal has announced the launch of their first mobile app, available for iOS. After a successful beta app, this all mobile-experience offers the ability for all sports enthusiasts to host gear and make extra money, including sports shops, and also allows consumers to rent extreme sports gear in the area they live through geotargeting. The mobile app is available for...

GDC 2018 breaks attendance records

Monday, April 2, 2018 by Richard Harris

The 2018 Game Developers Conference (GDC) ended after a week of networking, learning and inspiration. This year, the event saw a record attendance of 28,000 industry professionals at San Francisco’s Moscone Convention Center from March 19-23. GDC and VRDC will be returning to the Moscone Convention Center on Monday, March 18 to Friday, March 22, 2019. The call for submi...

The IGF 2018 winning lineup

Tuesday, March 27, 2018 by Richard Harris

Infinite Fall’s Night in the Woods took home the $30,000 Seumas McNally Grand Prize for Best Independent Game at the 20th annual Independent Games Festival (IGF) Awards. The ceremony took place as part of the 2018 Game Developers Conference (GDC) at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco. In addition to the grand prize, Night in the Woods also received top honor...

Atari games brings Lunar Battle mobile app

Wednesday, October 25, 2017 by Richard Harris

Atari has announced that the new hybrid city-builder and space shooter game Lunar Battle is now available on the App Store and Google Play. Lunar Battle is a new, original Atari title where players crash land into an epic deep space adventure to explore uncharted terrain and conquer the galaxy. This captivating free-to-play city-builder incorporates arcade-style combat ...

Take the Scifi developer survey and win a $200 Amazon voucher

Friday, June 9, 2017 by Mark Wilcox

We are excited to present you with the Developer Economics Q3 2017 survey, run by VisionMobile! This is their 13th developer survey, focusing on tools, training and career development. The survey has an annual reach of more than 40,000 developers around the world, so it is a chance for you to contribute to the global developer community. The survey includes r...