Niantic CEO John Hanke: Games are the primordial soup for tech evolution
Niantic CEO John Hanke summoned up the ghost of Arthur C. Clarke when discussing augmented reality with the famous quote, “Any sufficiently advanced technology...
Annapurna and Giant Enemy Crab’s shooter Due Process rewards teamwork, not just headshots
Giant Enemy Crab’s first-person shooter Due Process is the latest game to join publisher Annapurna Interactive’s roster of indie games. Ten players will face...
Dauntless takes its monster-hunting action to open beta on May 24
Phoenix Labs announced today that its multiplayer cooperative game Dauntless will enter open beta on PC on May 24. Dauntless is the studio’s first...
GamesBeat Decides 77: The ‘core’ Mario question — live from PAX East
The GamesBeat Decides podcast is coming to you from Boston and the PAX East gaming event to determine what is a core Mario game...
Tencent’s new game investment strategy: smaller and earlier
Tencent is one of the biggest gaming companies in the world. It got to the point where it owns significant chunks of companies like...
Games jobs are everywhere — but, hey, Canada is nice
“Where in the world are the game jobs?” That was the name of talk between James Hursthouse of DigiBC (The Interactive & Digital Media Industry Association...
Zuckerberg: Facebook did not fire Palmer Luckey over political views
Facebook chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg is facing a barrage of questions as he testifies before the United States Senate today. One of those...
Ex-PlayStation boss Andrew House: Consoles have a bright future
Andrew House is no longer at Sony, but he still thinks that consoles like the PlayStation 4 have big future ahead of them. House...
The Stillness of the Wind returns to a lonely apocalyptic goat farm
Indie designer Coyan Cardenas is going back to the farm with The Stillness of the Wind, a sequel to his 2017 game, Where the Goats...
JPEG XS is a new VR video streaming format optimized for 5G and Wi-Fi
Best known for its eponymous and ubiquitous photo standard, the Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) has announced JPEG XS, a new video compression standard...