Behind the headlines of real-world hacking and Watch Dogs 2
George Orwell got it wrong about Big Brother watching you. Instead, it’s lots of Little Brothers who are watching all of us via the...
Glu’s Design Home is another big hit targeting female mobile gamers
When Glu Mobile bought CrowdStar for $45 million in December, it picked up a game publisher that had rare success with female gamers through its Covet Fashion mobile...
Vreal CEO Todd Hooper on the joys of VR livestreaming
Todd Hooper has shown up early at the virtual reality party. He started Vreal in Seattle to create a livestreaming platform for streamers to...
Why Xbox Live is the focus of Microsoft’s gaming business
If it seems like Microsoft is de-emphasizing the importance of owning an Xbox console to play its games, that’s because the company cares way...
These were the 10 biggest European tech stories this week
This week, Tech.eu tracked 16 technology M&A transactions, one IPO and 71 tech funding deals totaling nearly €1.14 billion (about $1.24 billion) in Europe,...
Hitman is the future of games — even if it’s not the future of Square Enix
The people who make hit movies or top-40 songs often have a gift for predicting what new types of experiences audiences are looking. Video games...
Creativerse developer Playful welcomes the chance to move beyond the ‘Minecraft clone’ label
Next week is the eighth anniversary of Minecraft’s debut as a prealpha prototype, and its model for gameplay may be more influential now than...
A VC and sci-fi author ask: Are we living in science fiction?
AI is the new bogeyman. That’s one of the observations we got from a fireside chat between venture capitalist Tim Chang and science fiction novelist...
ProBeat: Microsoft’s Fluent Design System is boring, and that’s a good thing
Microsoft revealed a lot this week at its annual Build developer conference. But to get a better sense of how the company wants to tie all its various...
GamesBeat roundup: EA’s huge revenues, and the importance of Asian character in Prey
Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we checked out Knack 2 for the PlayStation 4, Insomniac’s makes a stand against Trump’s travel...