District 9 director Neill Blomkamp makes two sci-fi film shorts with Unity
Neill Blomkamp, the Academy Award-nominated director of District 9, has taken a film created with the Unity Technologies game engine and made a couple...
Immersion will add touch feedback to Unity game engine
Developer Immersion hopes to bring high-quality touch feedback to more games through a partnership with Unity Technologies’ Unity game engine. The companies announced the...
Sony’s game chief Andrew House steps down after putting PlayStation back on top
Andrew House, the president of Sony Interactive Entertainment, has resigned from his post, and current deputy president, Tsuyoshi “John” Kodera, is taking over effective...
Nielsen: Esports fans follow an average of 5.7 games
Nielsen has been a trusted researcher of television habits for decades, and now it has begun to explore the popularity of esports. In its...
Vuforia 7 helps augmented reality blend into real life
Augmented reality tech company Vuforia is announcing a new version of its augmented reality platform that enables more seamless integration of AR into real-world...
Amazon’s Twitch opens official online merchandise store
Livestreaming platform Twitch announced today that it has opened its official online merchandise store. The store will feature shirts, hoodies, home goods, and community-inspired...
HTC will bundle Fallout 4 VR with the Vive headset
Virtual reality is off to a slow start, but HTC is giving it a kick today as it is announcing that it will bundle...
Intel makes the case for wireless PC-based high-end virtual reality
Intel recently hosted a 100-year-old man at its virtual reality lab in Hillsboro, Oregon. Lyle Becker was a big fan of the VR flight simulator,...
MZ’s Satori infrastructure goes from Game of War to SmartTrash
MZ, formerly known as Machine Zone, formed its Satori open data project to take advantage of the real-time server infrastructure that it built for...
Otoy’s Jules Urbach believes the blockchain can produce a crowdsourced rendering engine
Once upon a time, you had to submit a program to the computer department. They would run it, and send the results back to...