PewDiePie, the hugely popular YouTube comedy vlogger who specializes in video games, has launched his next mobile game — “PewDiePie’s Tuber Simulator” — through his Revelmode joint venture with Maker Studios. In addition, the Revelmode partners announced they have signed a multi-title development deal with the studio formed by “Goat Simulator” creator Armin Ibrisagic. In the free “PewDiePie’s Tuber Simulator” …
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The video game industry gathered in downtown Los Angeles this past week for the annual deluge of announcements, trailers and reveals known as E3 Here are five of our biggest takeaways from this year’s convention. The connection between Hollywood and video games is getting stronger. As the video game industry (and the technology behind it) has continued to grow, Hollywood’s …
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Jam City, the fast-growing mobile games publisher, loves Seth MacFarlane’s “Family Guy” so much, it’s teed up another title based on Fox’s sarcasm-fueled animated TV series. The new match-three puzzle game, aptly called “Family Guy: Another Freakin’ Mobile Game,” is set to launch early this summer. The game — which is not for kids, Jam City noted, or people who …
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Netflix is going after the kid demo again with “Skylanders Academy,” its first original series based on a video game, from Activision Blizzard. The 13-episode series bowed Friday on Netflix worldwide. Based on Activision Blizzard’s $3 billion Skylanders toys-to-life line, season 1 of “Skylanders Academy” will be followed by a second season slated to debut on Netflix in late 2017. …
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Video-game giant Activision Blizzard is teaming up with Facebook to deliver live eSports tournament coverage on the social-media service worldwide. Activision Blizzard Media Networks, headed by former ESPN CEO Steve Bornstein, will launch its new eSports network and programming during the MLG Anaheim Open, a two-day “Call of Duty: Black Ops III” tournament that kicks off June 10, 2016. The …
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Twitch and Super Evil Megacorp, the makers behind mobile esport game “Vainglory,” have inked a three-year partnership. This new partnership, the first of its kind for a mobile esport on the streaming website, includes a multi-million dollar investment from each company and a multi-pronged program across sales, promotions, broadcasts and live events as well as working to set up the …
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Facebook will soon let users broadcast live video-game play directly into their News Feeds — forging into an area dominated by Amazon’s Twitch. The social giant inked a pact with Blizzard Entertainment, under which users of Blizzard’s PC games such as “World of Warcraft,” “Heroes of the Storm,” “Hearthstone,” “Diablo III,” “StarCraft II” and “Overwatch” will be able to log in using …
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The National Basketball Association is taking to the virtual hardwood with NBA 2K eLeague, the first time a U.S. pro sports league will have a stake in an eSports league. The NBA is forming the video-game league in partnership with Take-Two Interactive, the longtime publisher of the “NBA 2K” series, with the first competitions to take place in 2018. In …
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Francis Ford Coppola’s “Apocalypse Now” will be turned into a horror role-playing video game, under a new project led by the director’s American Zoetrope banner. American Zoetrope has launched a Kickstarter campaign to solicit support and input from gamers and fans of the 1979 Vietnam War classic. But you won’t be able to smell virtual napalm in the morning for a …
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Marvel Entertainment characters will be featured in an all-new multiplayer mobile game being developed by FoxNext Games’ recently acquired Aftershock studio. The companies are staying mum on many details of the forthcoming game — including its title, release date and storyline. For now, here’s what Marvel and Fox are saying: It’s going to be an action/role-playing game chock-full of fan-favorite Marvel …
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