505’s Last Day of June will take gamers on an emotional journey
Massimi Guarini, creative director at Italy’s Studio Osovonico, has an intriguing idea for a game. A couple is in love in Last Day of...
Lost Sphear is a new retro Square Enix role-playing game from the I Am Setsuna team
First off, yes, the game’s name actually spells it “sphear.” Leave me alone, spell check. Square Enix announced Lost Sphear today, a new role-playing...
Last Day of June asks, ‘What would you do to save the one you love?’
Italian independent studio Ovosonico and indie publisher 505 Games today announced their first project together, Last Day of June. The interactive adventure has an emotional...
Vietnamese gaming and messaging firm VNG plans U.S. IPO
(Reuters) — Vietnamese online gaming and messaging firm VNG Corp said on Tuesday it has signed a preliminary agreement with U.S. bourse operator Nasdaq...
Nvidia’s Max-Q tech can make gaming laptops as thin as a MacBook Air
Graphics chip maker Nvidia introduced Max-Q, a new design approach that will enable thinner, quieter, and faster gaming laptops. Laptops using the new Max-Q designs...
PlayStation tops ranking of the game industry’s most-watched TV ads
On TV, “PlayStation Vue” had a whole new meaning between April and May, as the console brand captured 16 percent of the gaming industry TV...
Top-downloaded games beat top-grossing ones on retention
It’s a big accomplishment for a mobile game to get a lot of players. And it’s still more difficult to keep them around. Hanging...
Turtle Rock’s Steve Goldstein believes the console game industry lacks risk takers
I’ve formed a lot of opinions about the game industry over the years. And I recently got the chance to spout them in a...
Gazillion 2.0: How an online game company rebooted itself and brought Marvel Heroes Omega to the consoles
Gazillion Entertainment is a company that came back from the dead. It was shedding employees a few years ago, and now, it’s celebrating the recent...
The crossover between car simulations and autonomous vehicles
Artificial intelligence is advancing fast and it is leading to strange bedfellows. One case is the interplay between AImotive, a maker of self-driving car...