Apple blocks Google Stadia and Microsoft’s xCloud on iOS for violating App Store rules
Cloud gaming services like Google Stadia and xCloud won't be coming to iOS...ever.
Diablo Immortal is part of a wider Activision Blizzard mobile strategy
Money talks far louder than a fan demanding to know if Diablo Immortal is an out of season April Fool’s joke, and you can look at Activision’s other successful venture into that territory to see that their mobile strategy is a lucrative one.
Xbox Game Pass comes to Android mobile devices on September 15
Cloud gaming on the go, in the palm of your hands! Xbox Game Pass is coming to mobile devices this September, provided that you're in one of the select few countries where the service will roll out to and have an Android device to play on.
Every video game out this August – Serious samurai, dodgy doctors and MMA melees
They may not have the highest of profiles, but between dedicated horror games such as a new Flight Simulator, indie rock adventures in No Straight Roads and flinging a foolish samurai into battle against an ancient evil, I'm digging what I'm seeing so far.
Pokémon Unite revealed – A Poké-MOBA for Nintendo Switch and mobile
We’ve seen Pokémon revolutionise the strategy genre over the years. We’ve seen Pokémon strategy games, dungeon crawlers and even Pokémon fighting games. But today? Arceus help us all, the next genre that Pokémon is dipping into, is…a MOBA. Announced today in the latest Pokémon Presents showcase, Nintendo is teaming up with Tencent to develop Pokémon Unite.
What happens if you spend $1000 in a Gacha game? A surprisingly personal investment of addiction and waifus
How do you actually explain Gacha games, its ability to draw you in and how it can make you spend literally hundreds of hard US cash on what is essentially a glorified JPEG? That’s the question which YouTuber Gigguk wanted to answer.
Epic Store’s free games have resulted in those games selling better in the long run
We’ve seen the likes of Borderlands: The Handsome Collection and Into the Breach offered as freebies with which to entice consumers towards the Epic Games Store lifestyle, and it looks like there’s no current end to this delicious bait being thrown into the gaming waters currently. Those free games have been fantastic marketing for the EGS, and according to Epic CEO Tim Sweeney, they’ve also been fantastic for driving home awareness of other games and increasing sales across long after the free giveaway promotion has ended.
Slack launches new redesigned iOS and Android apps
With people relying on Slack for regular workplace interaction, now is a good tine for the apps to get a UI redesign.
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