Expeditions: Viking makes choice matter through failure
After spending my life playing games where failure is never an option, it is difficult to adjust to a game where it is a...
Hearthstone’s next update is about keeping 70 million players happy
Sharing and playing Hearthstone with your friends is about to get easier and more rewarding. And Blizzard is hoping you appreciate it — so...
Discord’s voice communications app for gamers quadruples to 45 million users
On its second anniversary, Discord is announcing that it has reached more than 45 million users for its popular voice communications app for gamers....
Ubisoft: Far Cry 5 is coming
In a month, the industry will gather in Los Angeles for the Electronic Entertainment Expo tradeshow, but Ubisoft isn’t waiting for that event to...
Ubisoft’s online racer The Crew is getting a sequel
The publisher announced on its forums that The Crew 2 is coming. Ubisoft didn’t not give out any details besides the above logo, but promised that info was coming. The first game had more than 5 million players and shipped over 2 million copies.
Oculus is pumping up support for its developer site
Facebook wants to get better at helping its Oculus Rift developers. The virtual reality division of the social-networking behemoth announced today that it has...
Sonic Forces takes a cue from Deviant Art with user-generated characters
Tails, Knuckles, Amy, and friends are about to get a lot more company. Sega announced today that its upcoming game, Sonic Forces, lets you...
Gaming the system: Why the military embraced game-based learning and the classroom has not
Deanna Terzian has been working in education for three decades. But at our recent GamesBeat Summit 2017 event, the president of educational gaming company...
5 Sega franchises we want to see make a comeback
If Sega wants to reclaim its former glory, it’ll need more than Sonic and Atlus. The publisher and developer revealed in a recent presentation...
Intel and AMD reportedly have powerful new multicore CPUs coming
I think it was The Pixies that said “If man is an i5, then God is an i7.” Or something like that. I’m not...