AMD examines if your PC gaming rig can be energy efficient
Traditional gaming PCs have run hot and heavy. But Advanced Micro Devices is studying how to make its current and future graphics processing units (the...
Pokémon Go master completes his global quest to ‘catch ’em all’ — with help from Expedia
Nick Johnson is the first person to catch all of the available creatures in the wildly popular Pokémon Go mobile game. The New Yorker...
PlayStation VR co-creator says the ‘year of VR’ still holds surprises for us
Richard Marks has been working on PlayStation VR since 2010, but the senior research engineer at Sony Interactive Entertainment says that he can still...
How EA is moving to turn all players into competitive gamers
Peter Moore is a former pro soccer athlete, and so he knows the mixed emotions people feel when they describe professional video game players...
Bossa Studios raises $1.35 million to boost online game Worlds Adrift
Bossa Studios has raised $1.35 million in funding from venture capital firm London Venture Partners. London-based Bossa is working on an ambitious massively multiplayer online...
Hundreds of universities want to teach VR development, but few have the equipment
Hundreds of universities have expressed an interest in teaching virtual reality development to students, but few are equipped to do so, according to a...
Lionsgate’s Peter Levin on the convergence of VR games and entertainment
Peter Levin has been running the game and investments division at Lionsgate, one of Hollywood’s biggest studios, for two years. And he is so bullish...
AMD’s Roy Taylor on how VR will change entertainment
Roy Taylor works as corporate vice president of alliances at Advanced Micro Devices, a chip maker that creates processors and graphics chips for personal...
Opera Mediaworks’ Will Kassoy on creating a billion ad impressions — per week
Opera Mediaworks bought mobile video ad platform AdColony in 2014. At that time, Will Kassoy’s Los Angeles company had more than 100 employees. Now,...
The DeanBeat: What we learned from GamesBeat 2016
Episode 9 of our GamesBeat series of conferences is over. We heard the Yoda-like wisdom of 105 speakers at our ninth annual GamesBeat event...