Former ILM artist joins indie game studio Bonfire
Jaime Jasso, an artist that has worked at Industrial Light & Magic on giant movie franchises like Star Wars, has joined independent game studio...
Fallout 76 beta: Start date and times for PC, PS4, and Xbox One
Fallout 76 is less than a month away, and that means it’s time for Bethesda Softworks to rev up the hype machine for the post-apocalyptic...
DICE Summit will celebrate ‘trailblazers’ at February event
The DICE Summit, one of the game industry’s marquee events, will return next February in Las Vegas with a theme that honors “trailblazers” in...
Call of Duty esports draws on NFL knowledge with Johanna Faries hire
Activision Blizzard announced today that it has hired Johanna Faries as the new head of product for Call of Duty esports. Faries last served as an...
Voltron dev wins $150,000 in Universal GameDev Challenge
Universal Games and Unity Technologies announced the winner from the Universal GameDev Challenge: Voltron: Cubes of Olkarion, a prototype built by Gbanga, a Zurich-based game...
Unikrn gets gambling license for crypto-based betting on esports and games
Unikrn is out to fuse real-money betting on esports and games with cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies. And it is taking a big step today...
Resolution Games raises $7.5 million for AR/VR games
Scandinavia’s Resolution Games has raised $7.5 million for augmented reality and virtual reality development. While funding for virtual reality game makers aren’t what they...
Razer Phone 2 addresses all my issues except for one
I liked the Razer Phone. I used it for months and came away from it impressed … for a first effort from a company...
MMO studio Trion Worlds under new ownership
Trion Worlds has been sold. The California-based game-design studio specializes in massively multiplayer online games. According to a post Trion director of community relations...
Oculus says future Rift hardware is coming despite Iribe’s exit
As reported earlier today, Oculus cofounder Brendan Iribe announced that he’s leaving the company, the latest in a string of executive-level departures from Facebook. But...