Niantic and 8th Wall add hand tracking to AR toolkit
Niantic and 8th Wall announced today that they’re adding hand tracking to the latter’s AR developer toolkit. According to 8th Wall, developers will now...
Tencent to acquire majority shares in Dying Light dev Techland
Techland announced today that Chinese company Tencent is about to become its majority shareholder. The Polish studio will retain ownership of its intellectual property,...
Acquisition pause, Venom, and Ubisoft’s ‘large game’ | Kaser Focus
Another long week on the books, and luckily this one was not entirely dominated by the Microsoft-FTC-Activision Blizzard scuffle. In fact, given that Microsoft...
Unity launches visionOS beta program for Apple Vision Pro developers
Unity announced this week that it’s launching a beta program for visionOS that offers access to Unity PolySpatial. As part of a partnership with...
Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life review: This provincial life
The farming sim genre has certainly come a long way, hasn’t it? Not so long ago, the Harvest Moon games were the only ones...
Skybound announces Walking Dead: Betrayal, a social survival game
Skybound Games today revealed a new game set in the Walking Dead universe. Called Betrayal, it’s a survival/social deception third-person title in which up...
Xbox Game Pass adds Celeste, Venba in late July wave
Xbox announced today which games are coming to Game Pass in the second wave of July. The new games only include one launch day...
Goodbye, Xbox Live Gold — Hello, Game Pass Core
Xbox announced yesterday that it is phasing out Xbox Live Gold, its long-running subscription service for online multiplayer, later this year. It’s incorporating it...
Crunchyroll announces One Punch Man game for PC and mobile
Crunchyroll Games announced today that it’s working on a game based on the One Punch Man anime. Called One Punch Man: World, the title...
The Activision Blizzard acquisition isn’t over until it’s over | Kaser Focus
Earlier in the week, it appeared that the FTC’s case against Microsoft had been summarily dismissed by Judge Corley, at least insofar as she...