Roblox: 60% of teens rarely discuss inappropriate online behavior with parents
60% of teens rarely discuss inappropriate online behavior with parents, according to a study of online behavior by gaming world creator Roblox. That shows...
Sony begins courting indie devs again as PlayStation 5 approaches
Sony Interactive Entertainment appointed a new head of its PlayStation Worldwide Studios today. Of course, that’s Sony veteran Shuhei Yoshida’s old job. But while...
Sony taps Horizon: Zero Dawn boss to lead PlayStation studios
Sony Interactive Entertainment is putting Guerrilla Games managing director Hermen Hulst in charge of PlayStation’s Worldwide Studios. Hulst oversaw Guerrilla’s production of the Killzone...
At BlizzCon, most fans found a reason to move on from Hong Kong
Earlier in October, it seemed like this year’s BlizzCon could be a disaster. Blizzard Entertainment’s annual fan event took place on November 1 and...
Google open-sources Cardboard to keep ‘no-frills’ VR widely available
Google may have canned Daydream VR and poured cold water on both its Cardboard viewers and VR SDK, but it doesn’t want to see...
NPD: U.S. games spending up 1% in Q3 as live-services offset consoles
The U.S. gaming industry generated $9.18 billion in the third quarter of 2019, according to industry-tracking firm The NPD Group and its most recent...
Niantic sets up $10 million third-party developer fund and names first dev contest winner
Niantic has scored hundreds of millions of players and billions of dollars in revenue from games like Pokémon Go. And now it is using...
Niantic enables small businesses to sponsor events in location games
Niantic has had big corporations like McDonald’s and Starbucks sponsor locations for some time in its location-based games. Now the creator of Pokémon Go...
Pokémon Go will get new augmented reality features like shared AR and user-curated waypoints
Niantic has learned a lot about location-based gaming and augmented reality from the hundreds of millions of players in its games like Ingress, Pokémon...
Resolution Games creates level builder for Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs
Resolution Games is launching a level builder so fans can create custom levels in Rovio‘s Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs. The level builder...