Vampires? Meh. Focus Home Interactive’s next role-playing game turns you into a werewolf
Focus Home Interactive is cornering the market on dark role-playing games from Europe. Today, the publisher announced a deal with White Wolf Publishing for...
Xbox One beats PlayStation 4 and mobile gaming in December’s ad spend
Consoles blew their mobile counterparts out of the water GamesBeat has partnered with iSpot.tv, which measures TV advertising in real time, to bring you...
China cites national security as it bans Pokémon Go and other AR games
China as a nation has a checkered past with the video game industry. For example, for almost a decade and a half, home video...
Otoy adds lightfield baking and other tools to its Unity integration
The road to photorealistic VR is long, but Otoy is helping to shorten it with the integration of its technology into the free version...
Dragon’s Watch remixes the mobile role-playing game style of Asia for the West
The $36 billion mobile market is brutal. Hundreds of games appear every month, and it takes the brand power of Pokémon to knock the...
How Oasis Games is creating a console beachhead for Chinese game makers
Fans of indie games and unusual new gaming experiences may remember a game — quietly released earlier this year in April 2016—called Koi, a...
Bellying up to the first Oculus-powered bar in Las Vegas
Tuesday night, I heard my UploadVR editor, Ian Hamilton, say something he’s never said before: “Hey, man I think we should go to a bar.”...
Cover Me dev: Room-scale mobile VR is ‘fully doable’ with the HTC Vive’s tracker
Amid the hustle and bustle of Vive’s CES booth, there’s a war zone. It’s a hellish battlefield in which three brave brothers are making...
What 2017 holds for esports
Mainstream sports are finally recognizing the untapped potential in video games as spectator sports. Three NBA team owners recently bought stakes in esports teams,...
Clash of Clans gets big backer as gamers try to reverse Iran ban
Last week, a flurry of reports came in about the decision made by the Attorney General in Iran, Dr. Abdolsamad Khoramabadi, to ban Supercell’s...