Ubisoft evades hostile takeover by swapping Vivendi for Tencent
Ubisoft is announcing today that French multimedia conglomerate Vivendi is selling all of its shares in the game maker. This ends Vivendi’s bid to...
HTC stealthily releases Vive Tracker 2018 for $99
Roughly one year after releasing the original Vive Tracker to developers and less than six months after the consumer release, HTC has quietly started to...
Resolution Games reveals AR fishing game Bait! Under the Surface
Resolution Games scored a hit with its Bait! virtual reality fishing game on the Samsung Gear VR in 2016 and the Google Daydream in...
Sea of Thieves servers crushed under wave of would-be pirates
Sea of Thieves is an online piracy simulator where you can work together with a crew to sail a ship to remote islands and into uncharted waters. You perform missions for computer-controlled characters, and you can get into battles with other players in their boats.
NBC Universal, Unity, Intel, and Microsoft kick off big indie game contest
Some big companies are getting together to create an indie game developers contest that will enable them to make prototype games based on some...
Games are getting the same realistic lighting as blockbuster movies
Multiple gaming technologies are coming together to enable real-time ray tracing. This is a technology that enables processors to replicate the physics of light,...
IDC: VR and AR headset sales expected to jump over 50% annually, hit 68.9 million in 2022
Virtual reality and augmented reality headsets are set to grow dramatically in popularity, IDC projects, with 2018 sales expected to hit 12.4 million units...
Magic Leap shows off AR glasses creator portal and SDK to game developers
Magic Leap announced that it will give developers a technical preview of its creator portal and software development kit (SDK) at the Game Developers...
HTC will sell Vive Pro VR headset for $800, cuts price of Vive to $500
HTC said today it will sell the Vive Pro virtual reality headset for $800, with global preorders starting now. And it will also cut...
Bigscreen launches alpha test for Gear VR mobile streaming
Bigscreen is only available on PC VR headsets such as the Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, and Windows VR platform, but that’s all about to...