Raising the bar on content moderation for social and gaming platforms (VB Live)
How did hate speech, abuse, and extremism become the “cost of being online” — and how can you make social platforms engaging, safe, and...
Twitch debuts Squad Stream to put four streamers in one screen
Twitch is launching Squad Stream, a new feature that lets up to four people to simultaneously stream their videos in a single screen window...
Wolfenstein: Youngblood turns killing Nazis into co-op fun on PC and consoles on July 26
Wolfenstein: Youngblood will let two players kill Nazis at the same time, and it ships on July 26 on the PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox...
Sam Barlow interview — The tangled web of interactive movie games
Sam Barlow’s interactive movie game Her Story won numerous awards in 2015 because it was a novel way to tell a story about a...
Her Story’s Sam Barlow is back with interactive movie game Telling Lies
Annapurna Interactive is releasing its first teaser trailer for Sam Barlow’s latest interactive movie game, Telling Lies. Barlow created the stories for a couple...
Insomniac’s Stormland is looking better as an open-world VR game
Insomniac Games is getting more ambitious with its virtual reality games. And Stormland, the fourth VR effort from the maker of the smash hit...
Dance Central is gyrating to the Oculus Quest and Rift
Do you remember the days when we could play Harmonix’s Dance Central and become dancing stars in the privacy of our homes? Well, those...
Newzoo: AR has a far bigger opportunity on mobile than VR
Virtual reality is clunky. Augmented reality is less so. And so it makes sense that AR has a bigger opportunity on mobile devices than...
GameStop sponsors Complexity Gaming’s esports training center
Esports training facilities are turning into a big sponsorship opportunity. The latest to show that is esports organization Complexity Gaming, whose new performance center...
Yoshi’s Crafted World review — cute, but dull
I don’t take notes when I’m reviewing games. I used to, right when I got started, but I soon found I never used them....