GamesBeat Rewind 2019: The year’s biggest trends … and where they’re heading in 2020
The game industry is in a huge period of flux, but 2019 only set the stage for enormous paradigm shifts that the coming year...
Stern Pinball unveils Stranger Things pinball machine
Stern Pinball, which has turned its pinball machine business into a global lifestyle brand, is announcing that it has created a Stranger Things pinball...
Unity gets toolkit for common AR/VR interactions
The Unity game engine released a preview for “XR Interaction Toolkit,” which handles some core interactions for VR and AR. Like most optional Unity...
Oculus Quest gets dynamic fixed foveated rendering
The Oculus Quest now has a Dynamic Fixed Foveated Rendering (FFR) feature, which developers can use instead of manually setting the FFR level. Fixed...
‘Snow Crash’ inspired the metaverse, and now it’s becoming an HBO show
A HBO series based on Snow Crash, the 1992 science fiction novel which coined the term “metaverse,” is in production. Snow Crash‘s author is...
Facebook: Mobile gaming is going tribal and global
Facebook recently produced a report on game marketing that represented its latest effort to understand the evolution of both gaming and gamers. The report...
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...