Hunt: Showdown’s lead designer on sneaking through the new map
Crytek’s Hunt: Showdown isn’t one of those games that is setting the world on fire. But the two-person team shooter has a creepy setting...
PlayStation rides roughshod over other gaming brands for October TV ad spend
PlayStation has been spending big on marketing, and yet for October, it upped its TV advertising budget for October, spending an estimated $28 million....
Vive Focus 6DoF controllers hands-on: an impressive start
At an enterprise-focused HTC Vive press event in San Francisco today, we learned about the Western release of the Vive Focus across North America and Europe,...
Everything Microsoft announced at its XO18 Mexico City event
Microsoft is throwing a big fan bash in Mexico City, and it made a lot of news announcements about new games, services, and acquisitions...
Microsoft acquires Obsidian Entertainment, a premier role-playing game studio
After adding five studios this year, Microsoft’s shopping cart isn’t full yet, as the publisher announced the acquisition of Obsidian Entertainment, one of the top...
Microsoft acquires InXile to make role-playing games for Xbox, PC
The Xbox team’s acquisition storm continues. The publisher revealed today that it is folding Wasteland 2 and Torment: Tides of Numenera studio InXile Entertainment...
Crackdown 3 launches February 15
Microsoft announced today at its XO18 fan event in Mexico City that Crackdown 3 is coming out for Xbox One and PC on February...
Xbox Game Pass gets 16 new games, including PUBG
Microsoft announced that the Xbox Game Pass subscription is getting 16 new games, including PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. Akin to Netflix for movies, the Xbox Game...
You Are Jeff Bezos postmortem
Last month, I published a small Twine game called You Are Jeff Bezos. In it, you wake up in the body of Amazon CEO...
Google files patent for eye-tracking system that reads expressions for VR
Google may one day make our virtual avatars more expressive by tracking our eyes. This is according to a patent published last week in which the...