Friendly ghosts haunt PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds
I love running custom games of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. Even when I die during one of these matches, the fun isn’t over, because I can...
SpecialEffect charity raises $621,777 to help disabled people play games
The U.K.-based charity SpecialEffect received $621,777 (£446,000) in donations from game companies during its annual One Special Day event in September. The charity focuses...
Epic acquires Cloudgine so Unreal devs can offload game processing to servers
Epic is unlocking the power of the cloud for its Unreal Engine 4 game-development tools. The company has acquired Cloudgine, a startup that enables...
Telefónica will bring 5G to Spain this year, kicking off EU’s next-gen cellular race
Telefónica, Spain’s largest mobile carrier, announced today that it will begin the 5G rollout process this year by transforming two Spanish cities into “5G...
Oculus VR spinoff Fable Studio makes big debut at Sundance
Fable Studio debuted its new virtual reality experience Wolves in the Walls this weekend at the Sundance Film Festival, and it also took the...
Diversity needs to be an inside job
Disneyland was a good place to check out the diversity of the game industry. I attended the Casual Connect game conference last week at...
Iconoclasts review — a mechanic’s guide to saving the world
Iconoclasts feels like a classic. It’s brimming with callbacks to an older era of games, but with an updated look and style. It’s an...
Batman: The Enemy Within Episode Four review — setting up a tense showdown
Telltale Games’s Batman: The Enemy Within has been uneven so far, but fortunately Episode Four breaks from the previous entry’s stagnation. Titled “What Ails...
Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire — a step inside The Void’s new VR experience
Before I went to Disneyland this week, I made it to what is a far more interesting attraction for Star Wars geeks. In the...
Hollywood’s Skydance Interactive doubles down on VR for the long term
David Ellison, son of Oracle founder and billionaire Larry Ellison, started his own Hollywood entertainment studio in 2010. Skydance has made feature films including...