Decentraland shows the potential of blockchain and VR combined
Blockchain-based virtual reality universe Decentraland is holding its first property auction today. The virtual world is a social space linked to crypto coin-based transactions....
Google launches ARCore Developer Preview 2, will kill Tango on March 1
Google today launched ARCore Developer Preview 2, which you can download now from developers.google.com/ar and use to create AR experiences on Android. At the...
Riot takes its League of Legends knowledge to after-school coding program
Riot Games is bringing its game design experience to something beyond its smash hit multiplayer online battle arena League of Legends. It has partnered...
November NPD 2017: Call of Duty: WWII leads $2.7 billion month as sales are up 30% year-over-year
The video game industry was booming last month as holiday spending kicked in. Spending was up across the board, totaling $2.68 billion and up...
Ataribox hits the pause button on its crowdfunding campaign
Atari was supposed to start taking preorders along with launching its crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo today for its new Ataribox console. However, it seems...
Photographs is You Must Build a Boat studio’s pensive narrative puzzler
Indie studio EightyEight Games is best known for frenetic mobile games like 10,000,000 and You Must Build a Boat — but Photographs shows a...
The IndieBeat: TSA Frisky comes out of a student incubator and into our VR headsets
Air travel can be particularly nightmarish during the holidays. But indie studio Out There Entertainment has found humor in one of the many indignities you’ve...
Protecting your game from cyber attacks (VB Live)
The video game industry is being targeted more than ever by cyber attacks, taking massive financial and reputational hits every day. But there are...
Gorogoa review — a brief but beautiful foray into an otherworldly mystery
It’s been five years since the world got its first peek into the ethereal, mind-bending world of Gorogoa. Developer Jason Roberts and publisher Annapurna...
The ‘hollow husk’ of mobile Animal Crossing is gaming’s sad future
You know how people have been saying, for years and years now, that the triple-A video game industry’s weird hyperfocus on mostly white, mostly...