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...
Google opens VR video and photo format VR180, promises new publishing tools
Introduced at VidCon 2017 last June, Google’s VR180 video and photo format for VR isn’t yet being used in shipping products. But with its first hardware...
Bossa Studios’ Worlds Adrift launches May 17 on Steam Early Access
Bossa Studios’s massively multiplayer online game Worlds Adrift is based on the concept where if you build it, they will come — and pitch...
NBCUniversal’s VR strategy focuses on attractions, not headsets
NBCUniversal is interested in creating virtual reality content, but Chris Heatherly, the company’s gaming boss, gave one reason that isn’t a viable strategy yet...