White Elk’s Covert lets Oculus Go VR and phone gamers heist together
Oculus and White Elk announced Covert, a "couch co-op heist game" that lets VR and smartphone gamers collaborate asymmetrically to steal a mysterious artifact from a museum.
Lumines Remastered review — a classic puzzler, rough around the edges
In this era of remasters and reboots, everything old is becoming “new” again. So it’s hardly a surprise that Enhance Games is releasing Lumines Remastered...
Anime ‘virtual YouTube hosts’ are a thing, and Gree’s using VR to make them
Japanese gaming and media company Gree is leveraging VR hardware and IKinema software to recruit people who might become YouTube's next big personalities.
Rend preps for Early Access with a survival twist: Norse mythology
Frostkeep Studios‘s Rend seeks to improve on the survival game formula seen in titles like Facepunch Studios’s Rust and Studio Wildcard’s Ark: Survival Evolved. Its players...
Skyrim PSVR patch improves PS4 Pro graphics and Move controls
Bethesda is releasing a free patch that promises to improve Skyrim PSVR's performance in a variety of ways, with PlayStation 4 Pro and PlayStation Move users seeing the biggest benefits.
OpenAI’s bot can now defeat skilled Dota 2 teams
Artificial intelligence researchers at OpenAI have developed a system -- OpenAI Five -- that can defeat teams of skilled Dota 2 players.
When anyone can make games, ‘soul’ will make some rise to the top
As exciting as the democratization of game development may sound, it's problematic in practice. Pretty soon, it's going to be easier than ever to make a game, but harder than ever to convince people to give it a chance.
The story behind Nintendo’s betrayal of Sony — and how it created its fiercest rival
The following is an excerpt from Replay: The History of Video Games by Tristan Donovan. It should have been a coup. On May 28,...
Sable’s alien desert is a central figure in its story
The open-world exploration game Sable has an extraordinary art style, appearing as a kind of living science-fiction graphic novel. But the eponymous character’s journey...
Want to make your name as a streamer? Work on your GIF game (updated)
After Nintendo revealed that it would be bringing Fortnite to its Switch console during its presentation at E3 2018, it picked up over 2...