Google launches AR measuring app
Want to measure how Apple and Google are doing in the AR race? Well you could look to both company’s actual measuring apps, both...
Debbie Bestwick’s roller coaster journey at Worms publisher Team17
Debbie Bestwick has been in the games business for 31 years, and she has known nothing else. Starting with her first job in a...
Shawn Layden and Mark Cerny: from Icarus moment to managing 3,000 devs
Shawn Layden and Mark Cerny deserve a lot of the credit for why Sony’s PlayStation 4 is sitting at the top of the console...
Branching out: How limiting skill choices made Diablo 2 more fun
On Diablo 2’s 18th anniversary, Blizzard North’s designers recount the triumphs and pitfalls of growing the game’s skill trees. In the mid-1990s, computer role-playing...
Oculus Medium’s 2.0 update adds home sharing
Oculus Medium, the company’s VR sculpting app that launched alongside its Touch controllers in December 2016, just got a big update adding some crucial...
Summer Games Done Quick 2018 raises over $2.12 million for Doctors Without Borders
The speedrunning marathon Summer Games Done Quick 2018 just wrapped up a week of great (and fast) gaming that streamed live on Twitch, and...
VR hit Beat Saber is getting a multiplayer update
Music-based rhythm games are great. Some of my favorite gaming memories involve being huddled around plastic guitars and drum sets in Rock Band or...
Elijah Wood: Transference’s Hollywood collaboration comes from a ‘genuine place’
For some, the phrase “Hollywood and video games” doesn’t have positive connotations due to a history of bad licensed products, canceled projects, and terrible...
GamesBeat Decides 86: Hammond is very good
On this week’s GamesBeat Decides podcast, hosts Jeffrey Grubb and Mike Minotti talk about Summer Games Done Quick, Mario Tennis Aces online, and more....
Oculus details its Varifocal half-dome VR prototype
Last month, we reported on a talk by Douglas Lanman of Oculus Research (now Facebook’s Reality Labs) from the 2018 SID Display Week event. The fascinating...