Tencent is the biggest fish in the $22 billion game investment pond
In game-industry deal-making, there’s Tencent, then there’s everyone else. The Chinese behemoth led or participated in over $4 of every $10 invested in games...
God of War is one big escort mission
Ever since Sony first revealed the new God of War for PlayStation 4 at the Electronic Entertainment Expo trade show in 2016, director Cory...
Watch God of War director Cory Barlog cry as critics praise his game
When the reviews for God of War on PlayStation 4 went live last week, fans around the world were refershing aggregator sites like Metacritic...
Oculus announces new privacy dashboard and policy ahead of new European regs
Oculus is updating its privacy policy ahead of May 25, when the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will take effect. Facebook’s virtual reality division...
Xbox One is blazing a trail for multi-generational backward compatibility
Backward compatibility is not new. ColecoVision’s 1982 Expansion Module 1 and Sega’s 1989 Power Base Converter set the stage for new consoles to play...
H1Z1 kicks off era of battle royale esports events with Las Vegas tournament
Esports is leveling up with some huge investments that are happening in entertainment venues for staging the popular events. We’ve seen this happen with...
Serious Sam 4: Planet Badass loads up a new entry for the FPS series
Devolver Digital announced Serious Sam 4: Planet Badass today for PC. You can watch the teaser trailer above, which promises a larger reveal at...
VCs hold contest for best augmented reality pitch
Twenty-seven venture capital funds and investors are uniting to hold the Global AR Online Pitch Event, a contest aimed at identifying stellar augmented reality...
TheWaveVR raises $6 million for social VR music and arts platform
Some virtual reality startups are having trouble getting the attention of investors, after the first wave of VR headsets failed to live up to...
The U.K. is becoming a global hotbed for VR and AR
Last month I addressed Europe’s startup brain drain to the U.S. and then followed up by profiling the U.K. as an exception to the...