Niantic CEO John Hanke: Games are the primordial soup for tech evolution
Niantic CEO John Hanke summoned up the ghost of Arthur C. Clarke when discussing augmented reality with the famous quote, “Any sufficiently advanced technology...
Annapurna and Giant Enemy Crab’s shooter Due Process rewards teamwork, not just headshots
Giant Enemy Crab’s first-person shooter Due Process is the latest game to join publisher Annapurna Interactive’s roster of indie games. Ten players will face...
Jam City president thinks every developer should think about branded content
Not every developer is willing to commit to creating an entire game based on licensed IP, but Jam City president and chief operating officer...
Gaming’s ‘Black Panther moment’ is coming, but it won’t be like the film
Gamergate may have cast a long shadow across the game industry, but thanks to the #metoo and #timesup movements — and a little film...
The rise of ‘massively personal online role-playing’ games is nigh
Computer science doesn’t just solve technical issues when it comes to making games. This is one of the many takeaways from the discussion between Improbable chief...
The Stillness of the Wind returns to a lonely apocalyptic goat farm
Indie designer Coyan Cardenas is going back to the farm with The Stillness of the Wind, a sequel to his 2017 game, Where the Goats...
JPEG XS is a new VR video streaming format optimized for 5G and Wi-Fi
Best known for its eponymous and ubiquitous photo standard, the Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) has announced JPEG XS, a new video compression standard...
Google opens VR video and photo format VR180, promises new publishing tools
Introduced at VidCon 2017 last June, Google’s VR180 video and photo format for VR isn’t yet being used in shipping products. But with its first hardware...
Bossa Studios’ Worlds Adrift launches May 17 on Steam Early Access
Bossa Studios’s massively multiplayer online game Worlds Adrift is based on the concept where if you build it, they will come — and pitch...
Star Wars: Battlefront II’s Janina Gavankar throws down the gauntlet at triple-A gaming
Star Wars: Battlefront II actress Janina Gavankar has a warning for both triple-A game studios and Hollywood: “Lean in or die off.” She took the stage...