Gaming analyst: Oculus Rift will sell half of what other experts predict
Virtual reality dominated the Game Developers Conference last week, but it’s nearly time for that hype to start translating into sales. And one analyst...
Miitomo’s fun image-creation tool should fuel discovery of Nintendo’s first mobile app
Nintendo has the most downloaded app in one of the world’s biggest markets for mobile gaming, and it’s easy to see why it’s spreading — thanks...
PlayStation 4 & Xbox One adopting Nintendo’s handheld update strategy makes sense to analysts
Your Xbox One is obsolete. Your PlayStation 4 is junk. But if these consoles are starting to feel old, Microsoft and Sony may step...
Industrial Light & Magic explains why punching R2-D2 is crucial to VR
Creating a virtual reality experience isn’t like making other video games because you have to consider so many other details … like the sound R2-D2...
Lucky’s Tale sometimes feels like the Big Bad Wolf is coming at you in virtual reality
Virtual reality gives people the chance to enter incredible make-believe worlds … but the results of that are often unsettling instead of wondrous. Playful,...
Sony will reject PlayStation VR games that aren’t at least 60 frames per second
SAN FRANCISCO — If you make a PlayStation VR game that dips to around 55 frames per second, Sony is not going to accept it....
Watch us throw people into a pachinko machine in Nintendo’s Miitomo mobile game
I just dropped a friend of mine into a pachinko machine to help me win a cat outfit. This is Nintendo’s first mobile game,...
Oculus Rift made me realize I only want to play games in virtual reality
I’m too disorganized for real-time strategy. I’ve had my fill of fast-paced flight games. I’d don’t want to play another minigame collection ever again. But...
PlayStation VR’s processing unit is off-limits to developers and isn’t a separate GPU
Sony engineer Chris Norden expressed frustration that the media does not understand the extra processing box that comes packed with the upcoming PlayStation VR...
Watch Sony’s PlayStation VR social experiment captivate an audience of developers
It’s counterintuitive to think that covering your eyes and ears with a screen and speakers can lead to awesome interactions with your friends, but...