Bait! fishing game maker Tommy Palm is hooked on mobile VR
Mobile virtual reality is hard, and it isn’t growing as fast as predicted. But Resolution Games CEO Tommy Palm is sticking with it. His...
Why Japanese mobile sensation Monster Strike failed in North America
Mixi Inc.’s Monster Strike is a mobile juggernaut in Japan. It frequently ranks among the top-grossing mobile apps on both Android and iOS, boasts...
The metrics that matter for successful gaming companies
If you’re a gaming company seeking an edge over the competition, you’re probably also a big fan of game analytics. At the same time...
Carnegie Mellon’s ETC is like the Disneyland of video game schools
Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center became famous in part because of The Last Lecture. Computer scientist Randy Pausch and Donald Marinelli, a professor of drama,...
HP Windows headset dev kit hands-on: the appeal of first-party VR
This week we got our hands-on the first development kit edition of the HP “Windows Mixed Reality” VR headset. Right off the bat let’s clarify that...
Life Is Strange prequel lets you decide how close teens should be
Life Is Strange sold more than 3 million copies because it had such appealing portraits of trouble teens. And developer Deck Nine is taking the...
iCivics teaches kids about politics, not partisanship
Politics has become virtually inescapable, whether on social media or in games. For the nonprofit iCivics, this isn’t a recent development. Former U.S. Supreme...
This Siggraph project lets you feel environmental effects in VR
You can open a portal to a new environment just like in the movie Doctor Strange and feel the environmental effects on the other...
World War Doh wins Casual Connect USA’s best in show
The Casual Connect USA conference in Seattle earlier this week hosted the 19th Indie Prize Awards. It honored nine games from smaller studios across the...
Hearthstone’s Knights of the Frozen Throne expansion will launch August 10
Hearthstone fans might want to wear a jacket or something on August 10. That’s when the digital card game’s chilly new expansion, Knights of...