Discord starts testing video chat and screen sharing with 5% of its gamers
Discord has begun testing video chat and screen sharing — two of the most-requested features from its audience of free voice and text chat...
Ristar doesn’t have Sonic’s legacy, but it does have Sega Forever’s blessing
Sega Forever is the gaming icon’s initiative to bring its back catalog to iOS and Android devices, and now Sega has revealed that Ristar...
AMD launches 16-core Threadripper, ‘the world’s fastest PC desktop processor’
Advanced Micro Devices is shipping a 16-core Ryzen Threadripper central processing unit (CPU) that the company says takes the speed crown away from Intel...
GawkBox raises $3.7 million to let fans tip streamers by engaging with mobile apps
GawkBox has raised $3.7 million to enable a new form of tipping for streamers. It enables fans to tip livestreamers by getting the fan...
The Overwatch League expands from seven to nine teams with new London and L.A. squads
The Overwatch League has grown to nine teams, adding another in Los Angeles and one in London. Last month, Blizzard announced that the first...
AR/VR Weekly: Social good dons a headset
Augmented and virtual reality are setting out to accomplish a lot of things. They provide entertainment. Social VR helps us connect to others. Both...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds gets 6 core-plus CPU optimization
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is getting an update today that includes optimization for CPUs that have 6 or more compute cores. That patch, which also fixes...
West of Loathing review — a Southwestern tour of the moo-pocalypse
West of Loathing is a surreal role-playing game with an unapologetically silly sense of humor that would make Mel Brooks proud. It’s the latest title...
StarCraft II is now a laboratory for AI research
Blizzard’s partnership with DeepMind, a firm that specializes in machine learning, has culminated in the release of the StarCraft II API, which is available...
This indie game offers a counterpoint to the Google manifesto
Elizabeth Sampat is an award-winning game designer who’s worked on blockbuster titles like Plants Vs Zombies 2 and Subway Surfers. She also makes small, intensely...