Gaming
Twitch launches tool to catch channel ban evaders
Amazon.com Inc’s live-streaming site, Twitch, is launching a tool to detect users who try to access channels where they have been banned, it has said.
Zynga’s bookings get a lift from mobile gaming demand
Zynga Inc beat Wall Street estimates for quarterly net bookings, fuelled by demand for its popular franchise “FarmVille” and contribution from the acquisition of mobile...
China’s tech crackdown continues with curbs on online gaming for kids
China has forbidden under-18s from playing video games for more than three hours a week, a stringent social intervention that it said was needed to pull the plug on a growing addic...
Nvidia’s $40 billion deal for ARM dealt blow by UK regulator
Nvidia’s $40 billion acquisition of UK-based chip designer ARM hit a major hurdle yesterday after a UK regulator found it could damage competition and weaken rivals, and requ...
Tencent tumbles after Chinese media calls online gaming “spiritual opium”
Shares of online gaming companies, including Tencent Holdings and NetEase Inc, tumbled earlier today after a Chinese state media outlet branded online gaming “spiritual opium...
Deloitte: Smart devices get pandemic boost in US household
The pandemic has bolstered the use of gadgets in an average US household to 25 connected devices, up from 11 in 2019, including laptops, smartphones, streaming devices, smart TVs, ...
Ubisoft invests in free-to-play games, signals profits might fall
French video games company Ubisoft warned operating profit might fall this financial year as the maker of “Assassin’s Creed” invests in new titles and laps a surg...
Roblox reveals bookings surge in first post-debut report
Roblox Corp trounced quarterly bookings estimates in its first earnings report since a blockbuster debut as the US gaming company benefited from a surge in spending by kids stuck a...
Nintendo partners with Pokemon Go maker Niantic on Pikmin app
Nintendo has stated that it is partnering with Pokemon Go app developer Niantic to create augmented reality (AR) titles, with a Pikmin themed app launching this year.
YouTube streamer to testify on GameStop alongside hedge fund managers
The YouTube streamer known online as ‘Roaring Kitty’, who helped drive a surge of interest in GameStop, will testify before a US House panel on Thursday alongside top h...
Nintendo hikes its sales forecast for Switch after a bumper year-end
Nintendo has hiked its full-year sales forecast for its Switch games console to 26.5 million from 24 million previously after a bumper holiday season, buoyed by the boom for at hom...
Nintendo ships one million Switches in China since late-2019 launch
The Japanese firm launched its Switch console in China at December 2019 in partnership with distributor Tencent, China’s biggest video games and social networking company, in...
Kids gaming platform Roblox faces hurdles ahead of public listing
Profanities and other offensive content that basic word-filtering tools are made to catch can be discovered in certain game titles and user profiles on children’s gaming syst...
Nintendo raises Switch forecast to 24 million units on pandemic gaming boom
Nintendo said it hopes to market 24 million of its Switch games consoles at the year ending March 2021, up from a forecast of 19 million but still regarded as cautious, since the C...
Tencent’s Honor of Kings reports 100 million daily users
Honor of Kings, Tencent’s flagship video game, declared a record 100 million daily active users globally and said it was expanding into other genres and forming a tie-up with...