John Hanke: Niantic wants Pokémon Go to look more like its first trailer
Remember how cool that first trailer for Pokémon Go looked? So does John Hanke. The Niantic chief executive officer was onstage with Epic Games chief executive...
PUBG fixed? New patch addresses the desync problem
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds developer PUBG Corp. is still running its “#FixPUBG” campaign. The studio has promised to deal with common problems that have ruined a...
Microsoft teases Project xCloud for Samsung game developers
Microsoft teased its Project xCloud game streaming technology at the Samsung Developer Conference. The project aims to make PC and console games available via...
Disney’s big Millennium Falcon ride faces a classic game design problem: balancing difficulty
Disney is working on one of the biggest projects in its theme park history. Galaxy Edge is the Star Wars-themed land that’s coming to Disneyland...
Skillz: Jacksonville tops list of 25 biggest U.S. mobile esports cities
Mobile esports firm Skillz released data today that shows where the most skilled mobile esports players live in the U.S. And the study shows...
FitXR raises $1.25 million to encourage fitness with VR boxing
FitXR has raised $1.25 million in funding to encourage people to get exercise through virtual reality fitness games such as Box VR. Earlier this...
Pagan Online is Wargaming’s first foray into Diablo’s turf
Wargaming is known more for its battleships and tanks than it is for swords and sorcery. But that’s about to change, as the publisher...
Humm’s headset turns your brain into overdrive for better gaming
Humm has a headset that can make you smarter, at least temporarily, by stimulating the part of your brain that is responsible for learning...
Hitman 2 review: A game that isn’t ashamed to be a game
One of my regrets from 2016 is that I didn’t play enough Hitman to put it higher on my game of the year list....
Nexon makes strategic investment in Patrick Söderlund’s Embark Studios
Asian online gaming giant Nexon made a strategic investment in Embark Studios, a new game-development company that former Electronic Arts and DICE executive Patrick Söderlund founded....