EA signs publishing deal with Skylanders veterans at Velan Studios
Electronic Arts has signed a deal to publish the first game from Velan Studios, an independent game developer started by gaming veterans Guha and...
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is Daedalic’s first game in new Middle-earth licensing deal
Daedalic Entertainment has built a reputation for story-rich adventure games since Carsten Fichtelmann and Jan “Poki” Müller-Michaelis founded it in 2007. But last week...
Why CCP Games crammed 14,274 spaceships into an Eve Online battle
It’s been seven months since Black Desert Online creator Pearl Abyss of South Korea acquired EVE Online maker CCP Games for $425 million. But...
Oculus founder Luckey: Rift S lenses won’t fit 30% of users
Since leaving Oculus in 2017, consumer virtual reality pioneer Palmer Luckey has occasionally used his personal blog to discuss minor and not-so-minor issues at...
Studio Roqovan closes, taking VR shooter World Wars Toons with it
World Wars Toons, one of VR’s earliest hopes for a great first-person shooter (FPS), is no more as developer Studio Roqovan closes its doors....
Minh ‘Gooseman’ Le shares how to get the guns right in shooters
Minh Le knows his guns. Nicknamed “Gooseman,” Le helped create a mod for Half-Life 2 back in 1999. It became Counter-Strike, one of the...
Valve psychologist explores controlling games directly with your brain
Mike Ambinder, a psychologist and researcher at Valve, packed a room at the Game Developers Conference with a talk on whether you can control...
The truth about hypercasual games
Hypercasual games have seen unprecedented growth over the past year. Using the average lifetime value of hypercasual players based on data from ironSource’s platform...
Tobii launches eye-tracking SDK for AR and VR
Eye-tracking specialist Tobii is honing in on VR and AR developers at the Game Developers Conference 2019 this week. The company yesterday announced the...
Lual Mayen: From refugee to game developer
For 22 of his 24 years of life, Lual Mayen lived in a refugee camp in northern Uganda. His parents fled from South Sudan...