Overwatch’s open beta attracted a whopping 9.7 million players, a Blizzard record
It looks like Blizzard has another hit on its hands. The open beta for its team-based shooter Overwatch — which lasted from May 5...
Doom looks hella awesome running on Vulkan graphics
Whether you’re a Doom fan or not, you’ll probably agree that the 3D graphics in the video below look pretty sweet. Nvidia posted the...
Oculus and Samsung have 1M Gear VR users
Oculus has already sold more than 1 million virtual reality head-mounted displays — although most of those are the Gear VR peripheral for Samsung...
Perfect World is putting Xbox One multiplayer battler Gigantic on Windows beyond Microsoft’s app store
One of the Xbox One’s most interesting-looking free-to-play games is also coming to nearly every active version of Windows thanks to a new partnership....
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney still opposes Microsoft’s Universal Windows Platform
Microsoft wants to unify its desktop, mobile and game platforms through the Universal Windows Platform (UWP). At the recent Microsoft Build conference, Microsoft CEO...
Windows 10 hit 300 million devices 6 months faster than Windows 7
At Microsoft’s Build 2016 developer conference, CEO Satya Nadella declared that Windows 10 is the “fastest growing version of Windows for both consumers and...
Samsung extends ‘Made for Samsung’ program to game developers
Global tech giant Samsung is announcing today that its Made for Samsung program for promoting mobile apps will be extended to independent game developers. That...
Rami Ismail: Vlambeer’s indie hits come to PlayStation 4 first because they love working with Sony
Maybe you’ve noticed that a lot of indie games end up on PlayStation 4 before Xbox One, and one of the studios that has...
Tim Sweeney: How the Universal Windows Platform is like Facebook and a boiling frog
Microsoft is working to unify its desktop, mobile, and gaming platforms, but one vocal critic thinks this could come with some frightening consequences for...
Why the Red Ring of Death didn’t kill the Xbox 360
If you were a console gamer last generation, chances are good that you have a story about a broken Xbox 360. Years later, one...