Snapchat and Viacom extend global advertising deal
Twitter forms Trust and Safety Council amid concerns it has become a cesspool of hateful trolls
Amazon takes on Unity, Unreal, Stingray, and more with Lumberyard, a free cross-platform game engine
GameTrailers shuts game video hub after 13 years
Adobe releases Flash Professional successor Animate CC
Oculus VR guru John Carmack leads crucial position-tracking development for mobile VR
Unicorn apocalypse: Has the value of mobile Internet companies peaked?
Zenefits CEO Parker Conrad resigns, COO David Sacks takes over
Guest
Why most A/B tests give you bullshit results
Verizon enlists AOL CEO to explore Yahoo deal
Firewatch is a digital release — but it’s got one of the coolest physical bonuses of any game yet
Apple open-sources benchmarking software for its Swift programming language
Watch Blizzard reflect on its 25th anniversary and thank its fans
VB Event
Marketing in your (smiling) face: Marketing.FWD Summit will stimulate, provoke, and amuse
French data privacy regulator to Facebook: You have 3 months to stop tracking non-users
Pokémon’s $5M Super Bowl ad ranks among Sunday’s big winners
Instagram launches account switching on iOS and Android
Anti-piracy group BREIN demands Torrents Time cease and desist
Exclusive
Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime on the last 25 years of games — and the next 25
Yelp CFO is stepping down, company seeking a replacement
Review
Firewatch knows that you don’t really want the truth to its mystery
Watch Oculus, Valve, Sony, and even NASA talk VR and AR on summit livestream
Event-ticketing startup YPlan is cutting 30% of its workforce as it scales back U.S. operations
Procurify and Slack Join Forces, Reinventing the Way We Work
Feature
How Blizzard stayed laser-focused on quality games for 25 years
Ardica Technologies Appoints Michael Hillman, Pamela Strisofsky to its Board of Directors
Exclusive
Turkey’s Gram Games scores a second hit with 1M downloads of Merged!
StubHub takes on Ticketmaster with new platform for both primary and secondary tickets
StarLeaf Launches Recording as a Service
Unravel is cute and touching — and it’ll drive you mad, too
Recruitment marketplace Hired nabs $40M, acquires 3 companies in U.S., France, and Australia
Digital Life Pioneer Pulse Evolution Gets $10 Million Investment by China’s Original Force Animation and Shanghai U9 Game
VB Insight
Research shows culture is the most critical attribute for mobile app marketers
Trinity Capital Investment Funds $92 Million to 22 Portfolio Companies in 2015
India bans Facebook’s Free Basics: Law targets ‘discriminatory tariffs’ and supports net neutrality
WhoSampled taps Spotify to show you who covered, remixed, or sampled your favorite songs
Supercell announces Clash Royale will launch globally in March
This remote control car can go anywhere with 3G service
