Read+Watch+Listen: Bonus material for Fallout 4 fans
This article may contain spoilers for Fallout 4. You spent years waiting for developers to hurry up and release a big game. You buy it,...
Nintendo’s Amiibo succeed and fail at the same time
The first line of figures launched with Super Smash Bros. for the Wii U on November 21 last year. Since then, as of the first half of fiscal 2015, Nintendo has shipped a total of 21.10 million Amiibo toys since launch, with the largest percentage — 7 million — being sold in the U.S.
Media Molecule’s Dreams encourages incredible levels of user creativity
Media Molecule took us for a great ride in user-generated content with the LittleBigPlanet series of video games. But that’s nothing compared to what...
How Pokémon Go will benefit from Niantic’s lessons from Ingress on location-based game design
Niantic Labs was an oddball startup within Google. Conceived by John Hanke to promote exercise and an appreciation of public art, Niantic created a...
Spellgun launches big budget Clash of Gods mobile game as China moves to the West
Spellgun, a mobile-game publisher that is marrying the East and the West, has launched Clash of Gods, a fantasy role-playing game where massive armies...
Dying Light: The Following’s map is twice the size of the original game
Thank goodness for dirt buggies. Free-running zombie game Dying Light (PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC) gets a major expansion in February, and the new map sounds like it would be tough to traverse on foot alone.
DICE, King, and Rovio vets form new studio to develop for the midcore market
I was recently reminded of a game industry marketing buzz word that I haven’t heard in a long time: midcore. Well, OK. I have...
Virtuix delivers its first motion platform to Kickstarter supporters — way ahead of VR products
Virtuix was way ahead of the curve when it announced a year ago that it had finished the final version of its Omni treadmill,...
Google’s top tech searches in 2015: iPhone 6s, Samsung Galaxy S6, and Apple Watch
Just like every other company on the planet, Google puts together end-of-year lists for its various properties. But there’s one that matters more than all...
It’s official: Kojima Productions is working with Sony
What do you do when you’re the prettiest girl at the ball and the slob that brought you treats you like crap? You hook...