TabTale changes its name to Crazy Labs with focus on hyper-casual mobile games
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Richard Bartle interview: How game developers should think about sapient AI characters
Litesprite’s game for managing depression gets an endorsement from Bayer’s startup accelerator
How Trick 3D and Holiday Inn owner used virtual reality to design a new hotel brand
Flavourworks raises $3.8 million to make interactive games with live-action video
Red Dead Redemption 2 on the PC — Nvidia GeForce RTX graphics makes a beautiful game even prettier
Call of Duty Endowment’s ‘Hire. Honor.’ campaign aims to get veterans back to work
The DeanBeat: Gaming is still at the mercy of larger forces
Techland’s Arise: A Simple Story lets players look back on and relive someone’s life
IBM’s DRAM inventor Bob Dennard gets chip industry’s highest honor
Activision Blizzard hits Q3 earnings targets with strong World of Warcraft Classic results
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare outselling Black Ops 4 by healthy margin
Emmy-winning Fable debuts final chapter of Wolves in the Walls VR story
Juked.gg creates an easy way to watch your favorite esports broadcasts
Indeed: Share of cryptocurrency jobs grew 1,457% in 4 years
Tune.fm taps Hedera Hashgraph for novel use of cryptocurrency in fast music micropayments
Roblox: 60% of teens rarely discuss inappropriate online behavior with parents
Niantic sets up $10 million third-party developer fund and names first dev contest winner
Niantic enables small businesses to sponsor events in location games
Pokémon Go will get new augmented reality features like shared AR and user-curated waypoints
Resolution Games creates level builder for Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs
GSN Games names former Angry Birds developer William Taht as Bingo Bash chief
TabTale will publish movie-based Charlie’s Angels and Jumanji mobile games
Super Evil Megacorp raises $10.5 million, moves on to new game, and hands Vainglory off to Rogue Games
Clash Royale League World Finals take place December 7 with $400,000 purse
Microsoft’s Azure PlayFab and Xbox offer better matchmaking for game devs
Uplandme introduces Monopoly-like game based on real-world property and blockchain
100 Thieves CEO ‘Nadeshot’ wins Esports Shaker of the year award
Tumblr partners with Medal.tv to highlight 15-second gameplay videos
Zynga CEO Frank Gibeau interview — Bouncing back to fast growth
AMD CEO Lisa Su interview — 2020 will be a bigger product year for us
Hey Mom and Dad, I got an esports scholarship!
How Survios has navigated the rocky shoals of consumer VR
Marc Merrill interview: Why Riot Games took a decade to come up with new games
BlizzCon fans will be able to battle DeepMind’s AI in StarCraft 2
Blizzard president apologizes and takes responsibility for Hearthstone free speech blunder
The DeanBeat: Death Stranding and the madness or genius of Hideo Kojima
Nintendo President: Switch Lite isn’t cannibalizing the Switch
Zynga teams up with Alec Baldwin for 10th anniversary of Words With Friends
Zynga posts mixed results: Record bookings of $395 million, but short on profits
