Doom Eternal hands-on: Customizable combat on the run
Id Software’s Doom Eternal shooter once again casts players as the Doom Slayer, the ultimate demon killer who will mow down the legions of...
Brands pursue millennials by engaging with esports and gaming
Esports has become a billion-dollar industry, but if it is going to get much bigger, then brands have to buy into it in a...
VR’s 10 best puzzle games
Perhaps one of the most common genres found in the myriad of VR games is the humble puzzle game. With such an immersive platform...
Ironlights combines epic VR melee fighting on Quest with LAN multiplayer support
Ironlights is a new combat-and-dueling melee VR game coming to the Oculus Quest, Rift and SteamVR this spring. The announcement coincides with a Kickstarter...
The future of esports is bigger, messier, and worldwide
Esports in the last two decades has become a billion-dollar industry on a trajectory that would make NASA jealous. Players are celebrities, tournaments fill...
AMD CTO: How making the right bets years ago is paying off now
It’s been a long ride for Mark Papermaster, chief technology officer at Advanced Micro Devices. But the journey to challenge Intel in the race...
Crisis VRigade: From Facebook reject to SideQuest success
Seven months ago, Crisis VRigade developer Sumalab claimed its game had been rejected by Facebook’s console-like curation policy and kept from official release on Oculus Quest....
The RetroBeat: 2010’s best-selling games show how the industry has changed (or not)
It’s 2020, which means that anything that happened in 2010 is now retro. And since The NPD Group has sent us a list of...
The DeanBeat: A Westworld ‘activation’ that illustrates the creepy side of tech
My colleagues have been wondering what the word “activation” means, as the Entertainment Software Association used the word in describing why its Electronic Entertainment...
Marvel’s Iron Man VR gets delayed to May
It’s going to take a few more months for Tony Stark to get off of the ground. Developer Camouflaj announced today it is delaying...