Xbox One Elite Controller tips: Getting the most from shooters, racers, and action games
If you’re going to spend $150 on a gamepad, you’re going to want to use it for everything you play. Well, it turns out...
A step-by-step guide to creating a monstrous MyCareer player in NBA 2K16
Although you spend the first few hours of NBA 2K16’s MyCareer mode living in a stereotypical after-school special, you’ll still need to know your...
Finnish studio Koukoi Games bags $1M seed funding from Frontier Singapore partners
Finnish mobile game developer, Koukoi Games, receives $1M investment
How Israel’s $1B game business thrives in a cutthroat global industry
TEL AVIV — I traveled to Israel for the first time last week to get a good look at the country’s $1 billion game...
Mojang’s Cobalt gets delayed just days before release to February 2016
We’re mining up some bad news for Mojang fans. The Minecraft publisher announced today that it’s delaying Cobalt, a side-scrolling action game for PC,...
Kingdom is a little too simple for what it wants to be
Kingdom is a minimalist 2D strategy/resource-managing game. Developed by Noio (the Netherlands) and Licorice (Iceland) and published by Raw Fury, it starts with a brief intro explaining the basics.
VCs favor putting their money into esports and virtual reality
Many venture capitalists are shy about investing in games. And for the first nine months of 2015, game investments were down about 35 percent from...
Guitar Hero Live is the new standard for rhythm games
Rhythm games needed a comeback. After the genre fell off, both Activision and Harmonix/Mad Catz (the publishers for Guitar Hero and Rock Band, respectively) decided, around the same time, that it was due for a resurgence.
Kangaroo is an amazing $99 Windows 10 portable PC
InFocus today debuted the Kangaroo, a $99 Windows 10 portable PC that “goes anywhere and works with any screen.” The term “mobile desktop” may...
Updated: Halo 5: Guardians takes Master Chief and his pursuer down a very strange path
Master Chief just isn’t himself in Halo 5: Guardians. And now that I’ve played the whole single-player campaign, I’m not really sure I like...