Nintendo eyes expansion into film business
TOKYO (Reuters) – Movies like “Mario Kart” and “The Legend of Zelda” could soon be coming to a theater near you. Nintendo Co Ltd...
Rovio: ‘The Angry Birds Movie’ brought in $43M in its opening weekend
Rovio Entertainment has bet the company on “The Angry Birds Movie,” which debuted this weekend in numerous territories and hits the U.S. on May...
Google targets HTML5 default for Chrome instead of Flash in Q4 2016
Google has outlined a plan to push HTML5 by default in Chrome, instead of Flash. In Q4 2016, the company plans to only serve...
How CastAR’s Jeri Ellsworth will use augmented reality for fun tabletop gaming
Jeri Ellsworth and Rick Johnson have been toiling away at augmented reality for years at their startup, CastAR. Their ambition to make a fun...
How Samsung plans to snare game developers with its ‘Made for Samsung’ program
Global conglomerates like Samsung dominate the tech landscape. But when it comes to games, they’re underdogs. Samsung knows this, and that’s why it recently...
Playwire launches a free video player for indie publishers
When it comes to making Internet video, free is a pretty good price. Playwire is announcing today that it has created a free version...
Nvidia’s hardware keeps winning because of its software
Last week, Nvidia introduced its next-generation line of graphics processors, but the company’s silicon is only half the reason I’m excited about the future of gaming...
Report says SoftBank considering sale of Supercell at $5B-plus valuation
Supercell is as close to being the Pixar of mobile games as any other company. Japan’s SoftBank Group knows this, and so it may not...
2016 is not the year the masses pick up virtual reality
Mark Zuckerberg (along with many others) believes that virtual reality will change the way we live, work, and communicate in many ways. Zuck may...
Microsoft is pulling the plug on Project Spark’s online services
Some sparks grow into a fire, an others get snuffed out. Microsoft is shutting down the game-creation sandbox Project Spark. It will no longer appear in the...