AMD’s Roy Taylor on how VR will change entertainment
Roy Taylor works as corporate vice president of alliances at Advanced Micro Devices, a chip maker that creates processors and graphics chips for personal...
Why the Pokémon trading card game still rocks 10 years later (updated)
In the competitive field of trading card games, few stick around long enough to make any sort of lasting impression, especially those that spawned...
Xbox One S is the right console for 2016’s messy 4K-television market
Sony and Microsoft are both trying to push console gaming into 4K, and the latest revision of the Xbox is doing that the right...
How Hearthstone’s tech team tackles an online game for PC and mobile
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft has 50 million registered players, making it the biggest hit in which players on PC and mobile are playing each other...
Machine Zone tops Farm Heroes, Lego Jedi, and spiritual dragons in July TV ad spend
Mobile Strike conquers July — at least in terms of TV ads. Continuing the slow summer trend, the gaming industry spent an estimated grand...
What Pokémon Go can teach the mobile game industry
The global success of Niantic Labs’ Pokémon Go is officially a phenomenon, amassing more downloads, headlines, revenue and memes than anyone could have predicted...
How to build a thriving games community (VB Live)
Much like the Nigerian proverb “It takes a whole village to raise a child,” it takes a thriving community for a game to reach...
Opera Mediaworks’ Will Kassoy on creating a billion ad impressions — per week
Opera Mediaworks bought mobile video ad platform AdColony in 2014. At that time, Will Kassoy’s Los Angeles company had more than 100 employees. Now,...
Iran ban on Nidoran: Pokémon Go not permitted due to ‘security concerns’
You cannot catch ’em all if you happen to live in Tehran. Iran has blocked Pokémon Go after the country’s High Council of Virtual Spaces...
AMD’s Radeon RX 470 does a solid 1080p60 but at a confusing price
AMD has made it clear that it wants the low end of the graphics card market, and now it’s time to see how committed...