Activision Blizzard buys MLG for estimated $46M to build ‘ESPN of esports’
Just weeks after announcing its esports division, Activision Blizzard has acquired the assets of live esports event organizer Major League Gaming for an estimated...
Osterhout Design Group unveils high-end enterprise augmented reality glasses
The Osterhout Design Group, which has been making high-end night-vision goggles for years, has begun shipping its R-7 augmented reality glasses for enterprise applications. The...
AMD rechristens its graphics chips under the Polaris brand ahead of a big 2016 product launch
Advanced Micro Devices is rebranding its graphics chips under the new AMD Polaris brand. Rather than build its branding around graphics cards, or the...
The DeanBeat: Our preview of next week’s CES 2016 tech extravaganza
I made my predictions last week about what will happen in games in 2016. But next week, I’m going to expand my horizons beyond games...
Oculus Touch delayed to second half of 2016
Oculus VR announced today that its Oculus Touch hand controls for virtual reality will be delayed until the second half of 2016. In a...
Three grandmas show how virtual reality can be the life of a holiday party
During my holiday break, I always like seeing what the relatives enjoy when it comes to gaming. The kids always lead the way. One...
To handle VR graphics, gaming PCs have to be 7 times more powerful
The folks at Nvidia, the world’s largest maker of stand-alone graphics chips, are good at numbers. So I talked to them recently about their...
Call of Duty, Fallout 4, and Star Wars Battlefront are Amazon’s top-selling games
Amazon said that its top video games of the holiday season were the year’s biggest blockbusters: Call of Duty: Black Ops III, Fallout 4,...
The DeanBeat: 10 predictions for the game industry in 2016
The video game business is unpredictable. But if you can predict the trends with a reasonable degree of accuracy, your company can gain a...
The masters of storytelling predict the future of narrative gaming
Video game storytelling has come into its own. The medium of gaming isn’t as old as books or movies. But some of the most...