The DeanBeat: 13 humble predictions for gaming in 2020
Dean Takahashi of GamesBeat makes his annual predictions about what will happen in the game industry. 2020 will be another strong year. Read the full article…
Read MoreDean Takahashi of GamesBeat makes his annual predictions about what will happen in the game industry. 2020 will be another strong year. Read the full article…
Read MoreIt’s easy to call for higher software quality, but doing so on an unproven hardware platform could drive much-needed developers away. Read the full article…
Read More‘The History of the Future’ is a new book by Blake Harris that chronicles the life of Palmer Luckey, the creation of the Oculus Rift, and the revival of VR. Read the full article…
Read MorePokémon Go had a strong start to 2019. The location-based AR game made $68 million during the month. Read the full article…
Read MoreMicrosoft has scheduled its Build 2019 developers conference for May 6 to May 8 in Seattle. Registration opens on February 15. Read the full article…
Read MoreDigital games grew 12 percent to $109.8 billion worldwide in 2018, driven by Epic Games’ huge free-to-play battle royale game Fortnite. Read the full article…
Read MoreHowever worldscale VR evolves, this conversation — around using VR in public spaces, design responsibilities, and social etiquette — is one we need to start having now, before the epic fail videos start rolling in. Read the full article…
Read MoreOculus’s more powerful complete redesign of Rift has reportedly been scuttled in favor of a simplified VR headset that can run on a greater number of PCs. Read the full article…
Read MoreHTC Vive joins Microsoft, Oculus, and other key VR players in developing a USB-C cable standard that will make future VR gear easier to connect and swap. Read the full article…
Read MoreSixense will offer a refund to its 2013 Kickstarter backers for its Stem virtual reality controllers. The company is shifting focus to enterprise VR. Read the full article…
Read MoreElectronic Arts and its Maxis studio are adding augmented reality to the iOS version of The Sims FreePlay via a new update dubbed Brilliant Backyards. The new AR multiplayer feature for iPhone and iPad uses Apple’s new ARKit 2, and the updated game is now available on the app store. Players can bring their Sims… Read the full article…
Read MoreNomadic will open its first virtual reality arcade featuring the first-person shooter game Arizona Sunshine in Orlando, Florida. The San Rafael, California-based Nomadic will partner with Rotterdam, The Netherlands-based Vertigo Arcades to take the popular shooter game into VR arcades, where players won’t have the inconvenience of having to… Read the full article…
Read MoreGUEST: On the night of September 3, 1943, hundreds of Royal Air Force pilots and crew prepared themselves and their planes for the long flight across the North Sea to conduct a night-time raid over Berlin. One of over 350 raids carried out over the German capital during the war, what made this a significant… Read the full article…
Read MorePokémon Go has just reached two big milestones. The mobile AR game has now earned $2 billion, according to Apptopia, a third-party provider of app data. The location-based game has also introduced a new Pokémon for the first time, the mythical Meltan. Pokémon Go became a phenomenon during its launch in the summer of 2016. While it… Read the full article…
Read MoreGoogle is continuing to push its Daydream VR platform forward, the company announced today, as it’s making moves that expand the app support and usability of its devices. Describing three new features as “experimental” for testing by developers, Google is adding Android app support to all Daydream devices, and the Lenovo Mirage So…Read More Powered… Read the full article…
Read MoreEnhance announced today Tetris Effect is coming to PlayStation 4 on November 9. It will include support for PSVR. Sony has had major triple-A exclusives this year like God of War and Marvel’s Spider-Man. Those titles help drive sales of PlayStation 4, but more niche exclusives like Tetris Effect can also bring more gamers to… Read the full article…
Read MoreVirtual reality is still a burgeoning market, but developers like Schell Games are finding success. The studio announced today that it has generated $3 million in revenue for its VR hit I Expect You To Die. The spy-themed puzzle adventure was able to reach that milestone by launching across multiple platforms. I Expect You To… Read the full article…
Read MoreDespite recording a 33.7 percent drop in worldwide shipments of VR headsets during 2018’s second quarter, IDC is forecasting a sunny outlook for future quarters. The explanation: Last year’s numbers were “artificially propped up” when Samsung, Google, and Alcatel bundled cheap VR mounting accessories with smartphones, and th… Read the full article…
Read MoreSecret Location is unveiling Transpose, a dream-like, gravity defying virtual reality game where you manipulate time back and forth to solve puzzles. The game is set in a surreal world with computer graphics inspired art style. I tried out the game in a preview recently, and it was interesting to see VR progress from the… Read the full article…
Read MoreAfter giving his personal Magic Leap One development kit to iFixit for a physical teardown last week, controversial Oculus founder Palmer Luckey has posted a blunt and detailed conceptual teardown of the Creator Edition on his personal blog. Calling the augmented reality headset a “tragedy in the classical sense,” Luckey bemoans not onl…Read More Powered by… Read the full article…
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