Category archives: Gaming

BTS World Launches Valentine’s Day Update for Captivated Fans

The popular BTS World app is getting a new Valentine’s Day update. BTS World is a highly popular sim game about managing South Korea’s most popular boy band. Players take on the role of an executive at Big Hit and must guide BTS on their jo…

Death Stranding Album Will Feature Exclusive Music From CHVRCHES, Khalid, and Major Lazer

The upcoming release of Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding game is much anticipated — to say the least. A soundtrack will drop the same day, featuring exclusive music from CHVRCHES, Khalid, and Major Lazer. The game’s director made the reveal via his Twitt…

LiveXLive Wants to Bring eSports Into Music Festivals — Starting This Month

It’s a marriage whose time has come. LiveXLive, which bills itself as a music festival video platform, announced that it had formed a long-term partnership with Allied Esports, .a Chinese company that owns both esports locations and content production …

LiveXLive, Allied Esports Partner For Competitive Gaming, Live Music Events

Live event streamer LiveXLive has formed a multi-year partnership with Allied Esports to create live esports experiences at music events and festivals in the U.S. and abroad. Under the terms of the agreement, LiveXLive and Allied Esports will collaborate to create LiveZone, a traveling studio for music festivals and other…

Nintendo Drops The Hammer on YouTube Music Channels — Virtually Guaranteeing an Increase In Piracy

Nintendo is hitting YouTube channels featuring popular game soundtrack with copyright strikes. Many channels are voluntarily shutting down in the wake of the strikes. Several YouTube channels shut down yesterday after Nintendo issued repeated copyright…

Ubisoft Loses Its Guitar-Teaching Video Game Patent Case — Judge Tosses the Claim

A North Carolina judge has invalidated Ubisoft’s patent claim on a video game, Rocksmith. The game teaches people how to play the guitar. This whole situation started when Ubisoft accused a competing Finnish developer of infringing on their Rocksmith p…

How An Old Game Boosted A 2019 Streaming Hit

This piece explores the marketing genius of the Flappy Bird-esque old-school online game Billy Meets World, launched in conjunction with Lauv’s latest release and engineered to help casually grow the artist’s Spotify followers. ______________________________ Guest post from AWAL We recommend playing Billy Meets World for at least 30 seconds before…

Just 24 Hours After Its Release, ‘BTS World’ Quickly Dominates Apple’s App Store Rankings

BTS World, a mobile game based on the internationally successful Korean boy band BTS (or Bangtan Boys), is making some serious waves in the Apple Store. Though it was only released on June 26th, BTS World has already jumped to the Apple Store’s top spo…