How VR startups can survive the slow growth of 2017
While the throngs were attending the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, we had our own GamesBeat event nearby at a breakfast sponsored by...
The big business behind the NBA’s move into esports
A major professional sports league will operate an esports league, a first for the esports industry, with the National Basketball Association and Take-Two Interactive...
CloudGate Studio lets you kick a dinosaur in VR with HTC’s Vive Tracker
I must apologize in advance to the society for the prevention of cruelty to dinosaurs. In a recent demo of CloudGate Studio‘s Island 459...
Vive Tracker could lead to an ecosystem of ‘hundreds’ of accessories
During UploadVR’s interview with HTC’s president of Vive in China Alvin Graylin last week, I asked if the company had any more plans for add-on...
Xsplit updates Player.me desktop app to bring together social and broadcasting tools
One of the leading software companies in the game livestreaming sector is combining a number of its tools into one service with the goal...
Hitman is a living sandbox, not an episodic game
In March of last year, publisher Square Enix kicked off a six-episode season of content for the latest Hitman game. From the outside, it...
Fantastic Contraption brings its puzzling gameplay to the PSVR in April
Fantastic Contraption was one of the more creative virtual reality games that debuted last year on the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift VR...
The PSVR’s Statik will drive you nuts or make you puzzlegasmic
Statik drove me nuts in a very short time. In this PlayStation VR game, your hands are trapped inside a box, and you have...
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Switch has early success, and China bans mobile games from South Korea
Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! We’re still playing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and we’re sharing tips that can help...
Oculus CTO John Carmack sues ZeniMax Media for $22.5 million
John Carmack’s legal fight with ZeniMax Media widened as the legendary game developer and current chief technology officer of Facebook’s Oculus division filed a...