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Since most people spend one-third of their lives working, the workplace plays a huge role in mental health. Here's how business leaders can help people feel their best and perform at their peak.

Supercell announced strong 2016 revenue and earnings today, but it didn’t break out the performance of specific games. Thankfully, mobile measurement firm Sensor Tower has done that for us, and it shows that Clash Roya...

Social mobile game publisher Storm8 laid off a large number of its employees this week. By one account, the San Mateo, California-based company cut about 130 jobs, going down from 240 people to 110.The move shows just ho...

It's about finding and maximizing moments of down-time in the day.

E-commerce and payment platform Xsolla is launching Xsolla Capital, a $30 million fund that will invest in projects by independent game developers in exchange for royalty rights. The Los Angeles-based company plans to gi...

Casino magnate Elaine Wynn's donation was partly inspired by that of fellow billionaire and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg earlier this month.

ANALYSIS: Hearthstone’s next Standard year is the Year of the Mammoth. It’s an appropriate name, because Blizzard is making some mammoth-size changes to its digital card game behemoth. The change in the Standard cycl...

Immuta, an information governance platform that integrates data sources for data scientists, announced today a round of $8 million in funding. With cybersecurity hacks looming and data regulations becoming increasingly s...

Today you can buy flowers, get reservations, and order toilet paper via bots. Tomorrow, you might be able to buy just about anything via Messenger, SMS, or any other messaging protocol. Seattle-based ReplyYes announced a...

Some fake news leaks are potentially giving the world its first good look at the Nintendo Switch’s system interface. A poster on the message board NeoGAF claims that they have received their Nintendo Switch system earl...

So, if you're a business owner formulating an exit strategy, and you project significant growth, you should expect potential buyers to propose a sizable and potentially lengthy earn-out. You can also expect potentially d...

You can now get an instant library of Electronic Arts games at half the price. A membership to EA’s Origin Access program now goes for $30 per year, the publisher revealed today. Prior to the introduction of the new an...

DUBLIN (By Conor Humphries, Reuters) — Facebook said on Thursday a legal challenge against the way it transfers EU user data to the United States was “deeply flawed” and should not be referred to the EU’s top cou...

Lately, more and more brands are making a political stand. Is this a strategy that can pay off? Or is it too dangerous for your brand to get political?

Visa and IBM Watson today announced a partnership to use the Watson IoT platform to extend digital payments to connected cars, wearables, and other devices. The announcement was made at the Genius of Things Summit in Mun...

Nexon CEO Owen Mahoney will speak about creating a culture of inspiration and creativity at our next conference, titled GamesBeat Summit 2017: How games, sci-fi, and tech create real-world magic. Mahoney gave a passionat...

Alphabet, Google’s parent company, today announced that its X lab for “moonshots” has devised a new method of providing internet connectivity to certain places that will require fewer balloons and so will cost less...

Crash is back. Activision Publishing revealed today that Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, its updated take on the three original PlayStation Crash Bandicoot games, launches June 30. The company revealed the project on So...

Google Home owners can now use their smart speaker to shop for goods from about 50 retailers across the United States, such as Costco and Toys “R” Us. Participating Google Express retailers range from big names like ...

Sylvanas has no time for Standard games. Blizzard detailed the next year in its Standard format, the Year of the Mammoth, in a blog post today. It will make cards from older expansions unplayable in the game’s Standard...

Microsoft today announced that support for the Touch Bar display above the keyboard on Apple’s latest MacBook Pro laptops is now available to everyone. This is happening a couple of weeks after people taking early buil...

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