Oculus and Kaleidoscope set up DevLab to foster new VR experiences
Facebook’s Oculus VR division and Kaleidoscope announced DevLab, a new initiative to support independent VR creators as they create new virtual reality experiences. The...
Triseum unveils calculus educational game Variant: Limits
Triseum is unveiling Variant: Limits, the first game in a series that teaches students how to learn calculus in a fun, results-driven experience on...
Blizzard experiments with 5-player raids for World of Warcraft
Today marks the beginning of a new experiment for Blizzard Entertainment in their massively multiplayer role-playing game World of Warcraft: five-player raiding. Warcraft dungeons have...
The Witcher 3’s Gwent card game launches closed beta test
You no longer have to traverse wyvern-invested lands to find a game of Gwent. The PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC can now bring...
Shooter veterans form VR game studio Drifter Entertainment
Three veterans of first-person shooter games have formed Drifter Entertainment, a Seattle-based virtual reality game studio. The founders include Ray Davis, Kenneth Scott, and Brian Murphy....
Why Watch Dogs 2 creators chose to focus on San Francisco’s hacktivism
When Dominic Guay started working on Watch Dogs more than eight years ago, his mandate was to create a new brand for Ubisoft. The...
Amazon opens a new game engine team location in Austin
When one company sunsets in the game business, another one rises. That’s my interpretation of Amazon’s decision to open a new location for its...
World of Warcraft: Legion’s biggest patch yet is now live
The biggest massively multiplayer online game in the market is getting a ton of new content today. World of Warcraft’s 7.1 patch is now...
Ghost Invasion is a HoloLens game that turns you into a ghostbuster
The HoloLens is still a few years off from becoming a consumer product, but some developers are testing out the device’s gaming capabilities right now....
Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs 2 game director tells us how to take on the surveillance state
Watch Dogs 2 is an open world game about hacktivists taking on the smart city of San Francisco. Its anti-hero is Marcus Holloway, a...