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Microsoft Studios’ “Halo 5: Guardians” sci-fi video game is set to become the basis of a reality-competition eSports series. Microsoft Studios’ 343 Industries, developer of the blockbuster “Halo” first-person shooter series, has struck a deal with TV production company Pilgrim Media Group to develop the show. The partners did not reveal an expected premiere date, nor have they lined up …

Space Ape Games has hit the gas on a novel concept: The U.K. game developer has enlisted more than 20 top YouTube gaming creators to play bad guys in its new mobile game, “Fastlane: Road to Revenge” — banking on the fact that they’ll actively promote the free-to-play title to their millions of viewers. The version of “Fastlane” with the YouTubers as “bosses” is slated …

Netmarble Games, a major mobile-game publisher based in South Korea, has agreed to acquire Kabam’s Vancouver-based studio, the developer of massively multiplayer, free-to-play games including the worldwide hit “Marvel Contest of Champions.” Terms of the the deal, expected to close during the first quarter of 2017, were not disclosed. Kabam had received an unsolicited $800 million offer for its Canadian …

Scopely, the L.A.-based mobile games developer and network whose titles include “The Walking Dead: Road to Survival,” has closed $55 million in Series B financing. The funding, which brings Scopely to about $98.5 million raised to date, was led by Greycroft Growth Fund. “Companies are looking at mobile with the recent success of ‘Pokemon Go,’ and realizing the size of …

“Fear the Walking Dead” fans can now experience first-hand the horror of an L.A. zombie apocalypse with a free mobile game from AMC. The cable network teamed up with video-game publisher Versus Evil for “Fear the Walking Dead: Dead Run,” which launched Sunday on Apple’s App Store for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. AMC premiered season 2 of “Fear the Walking …

The Game Awards 2016, featuring some of the biggest video-game stars and titles, won’t be on TV — unless you hook up your Xbox, PlayStation, Apple TV or Roku to stream the live show. The Dec. 1 kudocast, hosted at the Microsoft Theater in downtown L.A., will be available via free streaming on a variety of platforms including — for the …

Turner and IMG, encouraged by the results of its ELeague competitive-gaming venture so far, have set their next eSports tournament for this spring — featuring 32 players duking it out in Capcom’s “Street Fighter V” hand-to-hand fighting game. The ELeague “Street Fighter V” Invitational will kick off from Turner’s eSports arena in Atlanta with preliminary rounds March 27-30. Those will …

Mobile-game sidekick apps have become a standard element of tentpole movie releases. And while such games can generate a nice chunk of change in their own right, a prime directive for studios is getting butts into theater seats. For “Ice Age: Collision Course,” 20th Century Fox cut a licensing deal with game developer Zynga to produce a match-3 game (a …

Scopely, the mobile game developer whose titles include a hit spinoff of “The Walking Dead,” announced $60 million in a Series C financing. The latest round brings Scopely to $160 million raised to date, and comes less than a year after it pulled in $55 million. The L.A.-based company says it has a valuation over $600 million and is profitable, …

“Terminator Genisys” may not be coming back to the big screen, but the cyborg franchise is set to get an all-new mobile game release next year. Skydance has inked a pact with game developer Plarium for the rights to develop a mobile game for iOS and Android based on the latest film in the “Terminator” franchise. The clan-based massively multiplayer online …