The Venture Reality Fund: Arcades, games, enterprise, and health care are driving VR forward
The number of venture capital investments is still growing in virtual reality, though not nearly at the pace it was in the past. The Venture...
Google launches final preview of Flutter, its Android and iOS mobile app SDK
At Google Developer Days China today, Google launched the final developer preview of Flutter, the company’s open source mobile UI framework that helps developers...
Rainbow Six: Siege proves that those ‘free weekends’ work
August was a huge month for game sales in the United States. Software spending was up 16 percent year-over-year to $285 million, according to...
The RetroBeat: The PlayStation Classic needs these 15 games
Sony announced the PlayStation Classic early this morning. Given the success of the NES and SNES Classic Editions, a micro console for the first...
Arkadium buys out VC investor to focus on long-term strategy
Arkadium, which creates visual and interactive content for more than 500 online news publishers, today announced it has bought out its early-stage investor, Edison...
Nintendo Switch Online needs more than just a good classic game hub
Nintendo Switch Online is underwhelming in most ways. People now have to pay to play games online, like Splatoon 2, when they were able...
NES Switch Online’s multiplayer works well, but I won’t use it
Nintendo Switch Online is live, and I gave the company my $20. I get the occasional itch to play Rocket League or Mario Tennis...
Red Dead Online will launch as a public beta for PS4 and Xbox One in November
Rockstar Games announced that Red Dead Online, a new online connected experience set against the backdrop of Red Dead Redemption 2‘s enormous open world,...
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night & Rondo collection gets rated in South Korea
Somewhere on Earth, monks are chanting in an abandoned castle. Their mantra calls into the darkness. It is a prayer to resurrect the demon Konami.
Magic: The Gathering — Arena launches open beta test September 27
Card games are an important and growing market in video games worth $1.3 billion in 2017, research firm Superdata reports, and should hit $1.7 billion in 2019. Blizzard’s Hearthstone rules, making 3.3 times more than its closet competitor. But it's going to get a serious competitor when Wizards brings Arena from its open beta to launch state and when Valve releases Artifact, its take on digital card games, on November 28.