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Teams Praise Ubisoft’s Expanded Rainbow Six Siege Revenue Share Plan

Earlier this week, Ubisoft revealed that its Rainbow Six Siege revenue share program will undergo a significant expansion, implement a three-tier system, and run for at least four more years. The Esports Observer spoke with several teams regarding the announcement and what it means for organizations in the game’s ecosystem. Ubisoft launched its Revenue Share Pilot Program in 2018 with 10 teams. Organizations have praised the publisher in the past for not only the company’s communication regarding its program relative to other esports rights holders, but also the revenue generation

‘The Almost Gone’ from Playdigious Has Been Updated to Add a New Minimap, UI Scaling, More Control Options, Fix Progression Issues, and More

TouchArcade Rating: Earlier this, Playdigious finally brought The Almost Gone ($6.99) from Happy Volcano and Joost Vandecasteele to PC, mobile, and Nintendo Switch. The gorgeous diorama-like adventure game that has you stuck between life and death got a big update today adding various quality of life improvements and fixes. This includes a new minimap, the ability to scale up the interface, button and touch options for controls, iPad rotation fixes, and a lot more. Watch the launch trailer for The Almost Gone below: Today’s update also tweaks the controls letting

VR Gaming Ads: Testing the Waters; An Interview with Faultline

I recently had the pleasure to be interviewed by Rafi Cohen for Faultline Magazine. Please find the full piece below.In its pursuit of the mobile gaming market, PubNative, a German app-focused supply-side platform (SSP), is tentatively exploring the possibilities of VR. Speaking to Faultline this week, the company’s founder and CEO, Ionut Ciobotaru admitted that his “interest is just exploratory.”“For now, VR just doesn’t have the critical mass to be monetizable for ad companies,” he added.The company has set gaming as its next key market for growth in the world

New Dead Cells “Update Of Plenty” Changes Crossbows, Adds Backpacks

Developer Evil Empire has released a new update for Dead Cells. Called the Update of Plenty, it implements notable changes to weapons, items, and the in-game economy. The full list of changes are detailed in the official patch notes.In terms of weapons, Update of Plenty makes all crossbows into two-handed weapons. To increase a player's willingness to try two-handed weapons, Update of Plenty also adds backpacks that allow you to hold onto an extra one-handed weapon that you can switch to in situations where your two-handed weapon might put you

SwitchArcade Round-Up: ‘Mr. Driller DrillLand’, ‘Collar X Malice’ and Today’s Other New Releases and Sales

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for June 25th, 2020. In today’s article, we’ve got summaries of the massive number of new releases that hit the eShop today. There’s something for everyone here today, unless you want a new top-down twin-stick shooter. Weird. Beyond the new games, we’ve also got the usual list of incoming and outgoing sales. Let’s check it out! New Releases Mr. Driller DrillLand ($29.99) SwitchArcade Highlight! Well, well, well… if it isn’t the best game in the Mr. Driller series, and one that

Big Hades Update Out Now–The Final One Before The Game’s 1.0 Launch

Supergiant Games has released a new update for Hades and it's one of the game's largest to date. In both the full patch notes and trailer for the update, Supergiant reveals that this will be Hades' final update in early access--there will be one more follow-up patch "to address any lingering issues" but the next full update will be the official launch of the game.This latest update adds a boss fight, hidden forms for certain weapons, enemies, mini-bosses, boons, and new types of upgrades to Hades. It also implements new

Blockchain Game Kronoverse Moves To Bitcoin SV: Creators Explain

ADVERTISEMENTThe Blockchain game Kronoverse will move to Bitcoin SV as the creators of the game said they couldn’t wait for ETH 2.0. In the following Bitcoin SV news, we find out what exactly happened.The creators of the blockchain game Kronoverse explained that the reason why they are moving from Ethereum to Bitcoin SV is the much-anticipated arrival of ETH 2.0. According to a recent official blog post, the creators said that they can no longer wait for the ETH 2.0 launch to solve the pressing scaling problems. The Kronoverse team

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