Gaming media and brand report: Rockstar Gets (Red Dead) Redemption in October
When you go eight years between release dates, it’s bound to cause some excitement. Coinciding with the long-awaited Red Dead Redemption 2, Rockstar Games...
Starship Commander: Arcade hands-on — Voice commands hit the final frontier
Talking to computers aboard a spaceship has been a sci-fi dream for decades. From Captain’s Logs in Star Trek to Cortana in Halo, as...
Two months running, PlayStation dominates first place in gaming industry’s most-seen TV ads ranking
In the last 30 days, Sony-owned PlayStation edged its lead with a third of all industry TV ad impressions, while Nintendo extended its market...
Mojang dev spurs Minecraft players to ask for Oculus Go version
For the most part, Gear VR and Oculus Go share almost the exact same content library, but there’s one glaring omission on Go’s side:...
The Hero of Deathtrap Dungeon is … a studio led by IBM Watson’s ex-chief design officer
Deathtrap Dungeon is an evocative name. It conjures mental images of crumbling halls deep under the earth, monsters with blood on their claws and...
Amplitude cofounder Mathieu Girard has a new RPG studio, Tactical Adventures
Mathieu Girard has already lived the indie dream. In 2011, he and Romain de Waubert de Genlis founded Amplitude Studios, the well-regarded makers of strategy...
Nomadic’s Arizona Sunshine is an impressive step in location-based VR’s evolution
We’re at the point now where it typically takes a lot to really ‘Wow!’ me with VR. After covering the industry heavily for almost...
Tetris Effect has a hidden Game Boy level
Tetris Effect, the latest take on the puzzling classic, is a bombastic, hypnotic assault on the senses, and absolutely something you should be looking...
InXile Entertainment is still working on VR despite Microsoft acquisition
This week, The Mage’s Tale developer InXile Entertainment was acquired by Microsoft, becoming a member of its Microsoft Studios family. Given that the Xbox-maker doesn’t have...
Pokémon: Let’s Go Pikachu review — learning to appreciate the series
Pokémon has never been my jam, as I wrote when I gave it a shot a few years ago, despite enjoying both collecting monsters...