Xbox One is blazing a trail for multi-generational backward compatibility
Backward compatibility is not new. ColecoVision’s 1982 Expansion Module 1 and Sega’s 1989 Power Base Converter set the stage for new consoles to play...
H1Z1 kicks off era of battle royale esports events with Las Vegas tournament
Esports is leveling up with some huge investments that are happening in entertainment venues for staging the popular events. We’ve seen this happen with...
Rare Bits raises $6 million for site where you can buy and sell CryptoKitties
Rare Bits has raised $6 million in venture funding for its blockchain-based store where you can buy and sell digital assets such as CryptoKitties....
Serious Sam 4: Planet Badass loads up a new entry for the FPS series
Devolver Digital announced Serious Sam 4: Planet Badass today for PC. You can watch the teaser trailer above, which promises a larger reveal at...
AMD wants to steal more market share with 2nd-generation Ryzen desktop processors
Advanced Micro Devices is launching its second-generation Ryzen desktop chips today with the goal of addressing a much larger swath of the PC processor...
VCs hold contest for best augmented reality pitch
Twenty-seven venture capital funds and investors are uniting to hold the Global AR Online Pitch Event, a contest aimed at identifying stellar augmented reality...
TheWaveVR raises $6 million for social VR music and arts platform
Some virtual reality startups are having trouble getting the attention of investors, after the first wave of VR headsets failed to live up to...
The U.K. is becoming a global hotbed for VR and AR
Last month I addressed Europe’s startup brain drain to the U.S. and then followed up by profiling the U.K. as an exception to the...
GamesBeat Decides 78: Why so low?
On this week’s GamesBeat Decides podcast, hosts Jeffrey Grubb and Mike Minotti are mad, but they’re also dads — so they feel guilty about...
Alien: Descent puts the Xenomorphs into a wireless VR arcade experience
FoxNext Destinations and Pure Imagination Studios's Alien: Descent is a new location-based virtual reality experience based on the hit movie franchise — and unlike other similar games, players won't be weighed down by a PC backpack. It opens on April 26, and folks can sign up for tickets now on its webpage.