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Beyond Finland: Working at Rovio’s RPG-Focused Studio in Sweden

Daniela Fontes is a Data Analyst at Rovio’s Stockholm studio. She joined Rovio in 2019 after founding a VR game studio based in Portugal. She works closely with the game teams at Rovio to set KPIs, monitor game performance, and improve the player experience. In my role as a data analyst at Rovio, I work closely with our game teams to design, implement, and analyze tests that ultimately help the game team make decisions. I also work with support functions like user acquisition and user research to deliver insights to

Out Now: ‘HopBound’, ‘Peak’s Edge’, ‘Small Town Murders’, ‘Rider.io’, ‘Crew 674 – Extraction’, ‘100% Golf’, ‘Serial Dumper’, ‘RPG Ruinverse’, ‘Viticulture’ and More

Each and every day new mobile games are hitting the App Store, and so each week we put together a big old list of all the best new releases of the past seven days. Back in the day the App Store would showcase the same games for a week, and then refresh those features each Thursday. Because of that developers got into the habit of releasing their games throughout Wednesday or very early Thursday in order to hopefully get one of those coveted features spots. Nowadays the App Store refreshes

From Fleet Carriers to Odyssey: A New Era Begins for Elite Dangerous on Xbox One

It is an exciting time to be an Elite Dangerous fan. Today we celebrate the launch of the Fleet Carriers – a free update for all players! This latest addition to the Elite Dangerous universe provides great opportunities for all players and ushers in a new age of exploration and discovery. As Fleet Carriers set sail through the Milky Way, the furthest corners of the galaxy now feel a little less distant. Thanks to their imposing 500 light years jump range and their capacity to hold 16 landing pads of

Dauntless – Call Of The Void Expansion Breakdown

Phoenix Labs' Dauntless pits players against a wide variety of monsters, beasts, and other behemoths with an arsenal of over-the-top and elaborate weapons. Taking cues from Capcom's Monster Hunter series, this online hack and slash game brings you and other players into hunts against the world's most dangerous behemoths. As a live-service game, Dauntless features a regular round of new content and events to dive into, but the online hack-and-slash monster-slayer is preparing for its most significant content drop yet. With the upcoming expansion, Call of the Void, hunters will

Wisdom Announces the Acquisition of Gold Rush

Gold Rush Wisdom is thrilled to bring Gold Rush into its larger media network, and Gold Rush will provide a platform to further Wisdom’s existing content initiatives in the gaming community. MINNEAPOLIS (PRWEB) June 08, 2020 Wisdom is excited to announce the acquisition of Gold Rush, a community content and tournament brand that has produced a number of brilliant events and broadcasts for the Rocket League esports community. The official announcement of acquisition occurred during an event on June 7 featuring prominent Rocket League personalities and jointly produced between Wisdom

Simutech multimedia hires Francois Painchaud as VP of Engineering

Francois’s experience will allow Simutech to deliver highly interactive simulations that our customers depend on to train the next generation of skilled labour OTTAWA, Ontario (PRWEB) June 05, 2020 Simutech Multimedia, the leader in simulation-based training for the manufacturing industry, today announced the hiring of Montreal-based multimedia development executive François Painchaud as Vice President of Engineering. Painchaud is a veteran in the 3D development industry and will guide Simutech’s development of its new web-based 3D simulations. Painchaud - who has over 20 years in design, development and deployment of diverse

13 Smart Sci-Fi Movies To Stream That Are Guaranteed To Melt Your Brain

13 Smart Sci-Fi Movies To Stream That Are Guaranteed To Melt Your Brain - GameSpot<meta id="js-loading-html" content=""> By Michael Rougeau on June 3, 2020 at 3:02PM PDT ]]> These streaming sci-fi movies will make you question everything, and you'll love them for it. We all need an escape from reality from time to time, and what better way than to expand our brains with some seriously cerebral science fiction? There are plenty of mind-bending sci-fi movies out there, and a lot are available to watch right now on streaming services.

SwitchArcade Round-Up: ‘Shantae & the Seven Sirens’ Review, Today’s New Releases, and the Latest Sales Featuring ‘Resident Evil’ and More

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for June 2nd, 2020. Not much gaming news right now, perhaps understandably so. We do have one new release to check out, and there is a full review of WayForward’s Shantae and the Seven Sirens for you to peruse at your leisure. We’ve also got a surprisingly decent list of new sales to dig into, with the lowest prices we’ve seen yet on Capcom’s Resident Evil ports. Let’s get to it! Reviews Shantae & the Seven Sirens ($29.99) I have a

Espo announces official pre-launch of its eSports digital staking platform to provide a new way for esports fans, teams and sponsors to collaborate

Espo, the platform where esports fans can stake* world-class teams and players, today announced its official pre-launch and pre-registration of its eSports digital staking platform. Espo has created an answer to limitations and problems faced by fans, teams and players in the esports community. By developing a digital staking platform, Espo is addressing the burning desire of fans to get closer to the action and the aspiration for teams to expand and generate revenue from their fanbase. The London-based Espo is the first-of-its-kind digital staking platform that will create real disruption in the esports

How to Survive and Thrive as a Space Empire in Stellaris: Console Edition

Hello everybody, Daniel Moregård here from Paradox Interactive to offer some tips for navigating the latest update for Stellaris: Console Edition – 2.2 “Le Guin”. Stellaris: Console Edition is the first grand strategy game on consoles and it’s free to play this weekend! As such, you might be thinking, what’s a grand strategy game? What is Stellaris? What is the meaning of life?? Who am I?!? It’s okay – you’re reading a blog post and it’s here to help with at least some of those questions. “Grand strategy” is a