Blast raises $5 million to turn gamers into savers
Every time you hit an achievement in League of Legends, you could trigger “micro-savings.” That’s the big idea that enabled Blast to raise $5...
Will Westworld work as a cartoony mobile game?
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announced yesterday that it has begun pre-registration for its Westworld mobile game, based on HBO’s most-watched original TV series. I’m...
Team17’s Planet Alpha sci-fi platformer plays gravity with by rotating the planet
Planet Alpha is a platformer on a beautiful alien world. It’s Danish indie developer Adrian Lazar’s newest game, and he and his small team...
Sea of Thieves shows how Microsoft can sail past PlayStation’s exclusive game lineup
It is no secret that Microsoft has struggled to deliver compelling exclusives to the Xbox One. Even Microsoft gaming executive Phil Spencer admits the...
Neurogaming’s next-gen Polygon system is an evolution of VR arcades
I was recently invited to New York to check out the demo VR space for Neurogaming. The company behind World of Tanks (Wargaming) formed...
Jurassic World Alive AR game is Pokémon Go with dinosaurs
Ever since Pokémon Go’s runaway success, the trend of “Take X thing and make it like Pokémon Go” is becoming more and more popular....
Dauntless: Making a different kind of monster hunting game
Presented by Intel Stalking the fiendish beasts in Dauntless isn’t an easy task. And while you can do it alone, developer Phoenix Labs hopes...
SuperData: Bethesda rules VR charts with Fallout and Skyrim
If 2016 was the Year of VR, at least from a hardware perspective with the launch of the Rift, Vive, PSVR, and Daydream, then...
USC’s Creating Reality hackathon tackles AR/VR projects starting March 12
Don’t be surprised if you’re strolling by the University of Southern California campus and you see see 400 people decked out in virtual reality...
Kerbal Space Program’s first expansion has deep mission-creation controls
Kerbal Space Program is getting its first expansion since debuting as an unfinished early access game outside of Steam in 2011. The Making History pack...