The game industry must learn that uncompensated crunch isn’t normal
After the International Game Developers Association announced our renewed focus on crunch time at GDC 2016, including ensuring fair compensation for the persistent practice...
French government announces plans to legalize and regulate esports industry
As part of a sweeping set of digital reforms under consideration, the French government has taken steps to simultaneously embrace and regulate the esports...
Everything you want to know about GamesBeat Summit 2016
Here’s the agenda for the GamesBeat Summit 2016, to be held May 3-4 at the Cavallo Point resort in Sausalito, Calif. Our GamesBeat event...
China’s $7.1B mobile gaming market is tougher than ever for its small developers
No country spends more on mobile games than China, but even Chinese companies are struggling to get a piece of that money. China has...
Oculus to frustrated preorder customers: Go get a Rift at Best Buy this weekend
Oculus VR is preparing to launch its retail strategy even before it has fulfilled all of its preorders. Many people who preordered a Rift...
New computer science center will honor the memory of a lost Oculus cofounder
Brendan Iribe, chief executive of Facebook’s Oculus VR division, dedicated the launch of a new computer science building at the University of Maryland over...
Infinity Ward developers reveal their design decisions for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare
Call of Duty developers at Activision’s Infinity Ward studio took to a Twitch livestream today to talk about the design choices they made in the newest...
‘Totoro’ and ‘Howl’s Moving Castle’ show how Studio Ghibli films amaze us in VR
Virtual reality doesn’t have to stick to transporting you to realistic settings. You can use the technology to visit worlds previously seen in animated...
Nvidia and Samsung settle patent lawsuit over graphics chips
Nvidia and Samsung said today that they have agreed to settle all pending intellectual property litigation between the two companies. Nvidia, the world’s biggest standalone maker...
Will fans go for a new ‘sci-fi’ Call of Duty that is more like Halo?
The makers of Call of Duty have always prided themselves on the realism of their military first-person shooter games. But in a quest to...