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...
Hellcouch — Your butt releases demons trapped in a couch
Of all the things I saw at the Game Developers Conference this week, Hellcouch was the weirdest. A lot of thought has gone into...
Google Stadia has promise — if it can resolve these 3 questions
At the Game Developers Conference 2019 this week, Google stole the show by announcing Stadia, its on-demand streaming service for video games. Set to...
Nintendo Labo VR will have over 64 minigames
Missed the news? Nintendo’s getting into VR. At least, it sort of is. Later this year the beloved gaming company will launch a Nintendo Switch...
‘Mortal Kombat’ actor returns as Shang Tsung in Mortal Kombat 11
Developer NetherRealm revealed a lot of new details about its upcoming fighter Mortal Kombat 11 today. Fan-favorite Noob Saibot is joining the roster, and...