Sumo Group acquires Dear Esther studio The Chinese Room
The U.K.-based Sumo Group announced today that it has acquired independent studio The Chinese Room from its founders, Dan Pinchbeck and Jessica Curry. The Chinese...
Visor analyzes your Overwatch game in real time for instantaneous advice
Visor has raised $4.7 million for its artificial intelligence system that analyzes Overwatch gameplay in real time and offers instant advice on how gamers...
Outward proves you don’t need crunch to make a massive RPG
Outward is an ambitious, open-world RPG designed by a team that’s a third of the size you’d expect. It’s dynamic, systems-heavy, and you can play the whole thing cooperatively and in splitscreen. Only 10 people are designing it.
Nvidia will ship its first ray-tracing Quadro graphics chip in Q4
Nvidia announced its first graphics chips that take advantage of its new Turing-based computer graphics architecture, the Quadro RTX series. The new chips for...
Nvidia unveils real-time ray tracing Turing graphics architecture
Nvidia said it “reinvented computer graphics” with the unveiling of its Nvidia Turing graphics processing unit (GPU) architecture. The architecture will be the foundation for...
Understanding the power of the avatar will be essential for VR’s future
Digital self-expression has evolved rapidly throughout the past couple of decades, particularly thanks to the gaming industry and strange new social worlds like Second...
Uncle Death now has a PC, so Let It Die is coming to Steam
Grasshopper Manufacture’s free-to-play hack-and-slash adventure Let It Die is coming to Steam this fall. Publisher GungHo Online Entertainment America released it for PlayStation 4...
Dead Cells is making me embrace the cheese
I have a problem when I play Dead Cells, the excellent roguelike action adventure with Metroid-style exploration that is out now on PC and...
Fortnite coaching is growing among kids — and parents
As Fortnite‘s popularity continues to rise, some players are trying to get ahead by hiring coaches. Varsity Tutors, a service and platform that offers...
Rainbow Six: Siege’s new defender has a shield that shoots lightning
The debut trailer for the latest defender character in Rainbow Six: Siege leaked over the weekend, and now Ubisoft has revealed some of the...