Life is Strange 2: How Dontnod decided to wrap up the story of 2 brothers
While Telltale Games, the maker of The Walking Dead series, went down in flames, the mantle for storytelling games shifted to a French studio...
Oculus Quest’s controller-free hand-tracking SDK is now available
The SDK for controller-free hand-tracking on Oculus Quest is now available, so developers can start integrating the feature into their apps. Controller-free hand tracking...
Building a solid hosting infrastructure is key to gaming’s future
Through the decades, gaming has grown from a niche hobby for a select few to a massive worldwide community. The online gaming community is...
Henry Cavill is right — in 2019, Total War: Warhammer is great
Creative Assembly’s Total War: Warhammer franchise has seemed to be quiet recently (apart from a shout-out from Witcher star Henry Cavill). Its last new...
New World reflects on Insurgency: Sandstorm and a year of big changes
This article is made possible by Intel’s GameDev BOOST program — dedicated to helping indie game developers everywhere achieve their dreams New World Interactive...
The DeanBeat: My favorite games of 2019
Games grew to a $148.8 billion market in 2019, up 9.6% from 2018 and reaching over 2.5 billion people across the globe. Console games, the...
Mixer and Facebook Gaming begin chipping away at Twitch’s market share
Twitch is the undisputed ruler of the livestreaming-video space, but competitors are starting to make gains. Mixer and Facebook Gaming are both up year-over-year...
Fortnite lost 28% of its viewership hours on Twitch in 2019
Fortnite is still one of the most popular games in the world, but it has definitely lost some of the unprecedented momentum that it...
Google buys triple-A game dev Typhoon Studio to beef up Stadia
Google’s Stadia cloud gaming division has acquired Typhoon Studio, a Montreal-based triple-A game development house. The move is part of Stadia’s plan to double...
AppOnboard launches free version of mobile game dev suite Buildbox
AppOnboard is launching a free version of Buildbox, a suite of tools that enables developers to create mobile games without knowing how to code....