Counter-Strike: Global Offensive takes out another esports viewership record
Activision’s newly acquired Major League Gaming division is pulling in huge audiences even when it broadcasts games that don’t belong to the giant publisher....
Hover Junkers is virtual reality’s best multiplayer game
While the rest of the industry is figuring out virtual reality, I’m going to continue enjoying an HTC Vive game that already knows how...
Koi is China’s first PlayStation 4 game for the West, and it debuts April 19
Gaming consoles are finally back in China after a lengthy ban, and now a developer in that country is building games for those systems....
Titanfall 2 brings mech fights to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC
It’s time to start gassing up your giant war mech because one of the best shooters of this generation is getting a sequel. Titanfall...
Disney Crossy Road is already the No. 1 downloaded app on iOS in the U.S.
Mickey is trying to cross the road … but there is no other side! Disney Crossy Road debuted on iOS and Android on Wednesday...
Nintendo’s Miitomo racks up 1.6M downloads in its first 4 days in the U.S.
1.6 million people downloaded the publisher’s Miitomo social platform in the U.S. alone from March 31 through April 3, according to industry-tracking firm Sensor Tower. That number includes both iOS and Android, and it doesn’t include the days Miitomo spent at the top of the download chart on both platforms through the bulk of this week.
Watch how HTC Vive’s Windlands will have you swinging like Spider-Man in VR
Developers and designers are still figuring out movement in this crazy virtual reality thing. Some early games have you walking around in a space...
I sat on my cat because of VR
I’ve already hurt myself in virtual reality, and now I’m hurting animals. Please don’t call PETA. I sat on my cat because I was...
Here’s how PlayStation’s gaming boss deals with light leaking into his Oculus Rift headset
The Oculus Rift is one hell of a piece of hardware, but it does have one weird shortcoming: some light leaks in around the...
Here’s how hard it is to make a mixed-reality trailer for HTC Vive VR games
Virtual reality is a difficult technology to demonstrate to people, but mixed reality is changing that. That doesn’t mean it’s an easy thing to...