Rumored deal between Riot and BAMTech heralds gaming’s next gold rush
Last week saw rumors of a potential $200 million deal between Riot Games and MLB’s streaming subsidiary BAMTech. While still a rumor, if true,...
Square Enix’s mocap studio can capture and display an actor’s movements in real time
TOKYO — Video games like Final Fantasy XV have stunningly realistic visuals of human faces and bodies. Drawing those kinds of images by hand and animating...
Why 2016 is the year of strategy games
2016 is the year of the strategy game. With high-profile releases like Total War: Warhammer, Stellaris, and Offworld Trading Company receiving high praise and...
Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite gameplay: Watch the Infinity Stones power Ryu’s attacks
The Infinity Stones are the most powerful objects in the Marvel universe, and now Mega Man is about to get his hands on them....
HoloLens comes to Unity game engine in 5.5 update
The Unity game engine is a versatile tool that developers use to build video games. This year alone it provided a slew of games...
PlayStation Experience trailer roundup: The Last of Us: Part II, Marvel vs. Capcom, and more
Sony loaded its news minigun with ammunition and fired off the announcements and trailers in rapid succession this morning at the PlayStation Experience fan...
Naughty Dog is making The Last of Us: Part II
We’re getting a sequel to The Last of Us, and somehow Naughty Dog isn’t calling it More of the Last of Us, The La2t...
PlayStation classics Wipeout, PaRappa The Rapper, LocoRoco, and Patapon all are returning to PS4
Old games are better than new games. That’s one of science’s few incontrovertible facts. It has nothing to do with me being age 12...
Nolan Bushnell’s first mobile game: Planning live ops from the start
As Nolan Bushnell begins work on his first game for mobile, we’re already looking ahead to how people will play the game. It is...
Knack’s back — PlayStation 4 launch game gets a sequel
Sony is making another Knack. PlayStation 4 is getting Knack 2. This is the sequel to the PS4 launch platformer, which starred a character made up of garbage polygons who was trying to get bigger … or something. I don’t know, I didn’t finish it.