Pokémon Go 101 for businesses
Pokémon Go uses augmented reality to fill our everyday surroundings with the franchise’s classic fantasy creatures. It displays the player’s location on a real-world...
Plantronics Rig 800 has 24 hours of battery life for your marathon gaming sessions
Plantronics is working to capture a bigger piece of the gaming-headset market, and it’s launching a new wireless audio device with insane battery life...
Riot Games investor Mitch Lasky is wary about funding VR
Mitch Lasky has scored a lot of big investments as a general partner at Benchmark: He was an early investor in Snapchat, NaturalMotion, Gaikai,...
Businesses are already profiting from Pokémon Go
By now you’ve certainly heard of Pokémon Go, and you’ve seen the crowds of people walking around, noses in their phones, excitedly chasing Pikachus...
Apple could make $3 billion from Pokémon Go in the next 2 years
(Reuters) — Apple Inc stands to rake in $3 billion in revenue from the Pokemon Go craze in the next one to two years...
SuperData: Esports is now a $892 million market, but growth is slowing
The esports business is closing in on $1 billion dollars, even if growth isn’t expanding quite as fast as it once did. Research firm SuperData released a new...
Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 coming for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Steam in September
Everyone’s favorite yellow circle is coming back for more dot-gobbling and ghost-dodging. Publisher Bandai Namco has announced Pac-Man Championship Edition 2. It debuts PlayStation...
Games built on Unity reveal massive growth for BRIC, Samsung Android dominance, and more
Studios have used Unity technologies’ game-making tools to build more than 238,000 mobile apps. Those games are on 1.7 billion devices, and that provides...
Venture investors will show the way forward with game investments at GamesBeat 2016
I’m delighted to announce our venture investor panel for GamesBeat 2016. Our seasoned panel will evaluate whether the game investment market is tepid, hot,...
Cemeteries top the ‘weird places I found Pokémon’ charts
I love Pokémon Go. You love Pokémon Go. But apparently, in your efforts to “catch ’em all,” you do find yourself playing in some...