GamesBeat Summit adds veteran game designer Amy Jo Kim as speaker
We’re happy to be adding veteran game designer Amy Jo Kim as a lightning talk speaker for the second annual GamesBeat Summit 2016, an event that’s set for...
The DeanBeat: What’s game journalism’s next move?
I’ve been watching game journalists lose their jobs. I’m sorry for my colleagues, and I hope they find a way to stay in this...
Her Interactive courts young fans with coding concepts in Nancy Drew: Codes & Clues
Nancy Drew mystery books and games have always skewed toward older girls over the course of 85 years. But Her Interactive is going in...
Oculus VR donates virtual reality headsets to Major League Hacking group
Oculus VR, the virtual reality division of Facebook, is donating a number of Oculus Rift headsets to tech education group Major League Hacking. The...
Here’s how PlayStation’s gaming boss deals with light leaking into his Oculus Rift headset
The Oculus Rift is one hell of a piece of hardware, but it does have one weird shortcoming: some light leaks in around the...
Here’s how hard it is to make a mixed-reality trailer for HTC Vive VR games
Virtual reality is a difficult technology to demonstrate to people, but mixed reality is changing that. That doesn’t mean it’s an easy thing to...
HTC details plans to roll out Vive virtual reality headset to retailers in June
HTC announced details of how it will roll out the HTC Vive virtual reality headset to retailers. HTC said that the new VR product...
Oculus is OK with free-to-play on Rift, but even a VR ad startup doesn’t like that idea
Two high-end virtual reality devices have launched, and now we live in a world where we need to figure out how these headsets fit...
HTC Vive is experiencing shipping problems, and the company is finally talking about it
Virtual reality tech finally works, and consumers are buying into it, but the biggest hurdle now is figuring out shipping logistics. The HTC Vive VR...
How educators are using Rocket League to help kids learn engineering
Rocket League is a phenomenon. The soccer game you play with cars debuted last year, and it now has multiple esports leagues and legions of...