Space Pirate Trainer is good VR if you want to blast robots out of the sky
Kablam! Kablam! Kablam! I’m tempted to write just that much about Space Pirate Trainer from I-Illusions. It’s a shooter game in virtual reality, and...
Final Approach is an HTC Vive VR game that turns you into a kid playing with toy airplanes
One of the best games I saw this week at Valve’s demo of the HTC Vive virtual reality headset was Final Approach from developer...
Top video game training program at USC will publish student-created titles
The University of Southern California said today that it would publishing games created by its own students through a label dubbed USC Games Publishing....
After booting out Kojima, Konami sells 6M copies of Metal Gear Solid V
Konami parted ways with legendary game designer Hideo Kojima last fall, just as he finished work on Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain....
Utomik’s ‘Netflix for games’ adds 200 more titles to its cloud-streaming library
Utomik said today that it struck a deal with game distributor Plug In Digital to add 200 more games to Utomik’s subscription cloud gaming service. The copmany is the latest of many to try to exploit cloud computing and create an innovative new gaming service with it.
GamesBeat weekly roundup: Star Wars propels EA, and digital games were a $61B market in 2015
Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we play 12 virtual reality games on the HTC Vive headset, one of the upcoming competitors...
How virtual reality feels
We tossed around toys like kids. We played tetherball; I instantly sank back in time to elementary school, the last time I knocked a...
The DeanBeat: That Dragon, Cancer shows the emotional power of video games
The new year will bring us many games, but it would be a shame if you miss out on one of the earliest releases...
The Witness is getting pirated big time — creator Jonathan Blow warns it’ll impact future projects
A lot of people are playing the The Witness, but they’re not all paying for the privilege. Celebrated indie developer Jonathan Blow took to...
Let’s watch the Taipei Game Show
The game industry is in Taiwan for a big event, and you can watch. The Taipei Game Show is happening this week. As part...