BlizzCon 2015 in pictures: Warcraft film cast, cool cosplay, and more
Every time I go to BlizzCon, I always think the same thing: I should play more Blizzard games. Not many game companies can inspire the...
Tales of Zestiria is one Japanese role-playing game trope after another
Publisher Bandai Namco has always been risk-averse with its long-running Tales series, and the latest entry, Tales of Zestiria, is definitely no exception. The...
AR VR there yet? The experts weigh in on the growth of augmented and virtual reality
SAN DIEGO — The big question among tech investors and entrepreneurs today has to do with how quickly a new computing paradigm will arrive....
100,000 students and counting: Google brings VR kits to schools in 15 more cities
Google is expanding its Expeditions Pioneer Program, an initiative to help teachers and students use virtual reality in schools around the world. The program...
Twitch fans watch 545.9M minutes of famous painter Bob Ross making art
Gameplay livestreaming site Twitch took a risk nine days ago when it announced Twitch Creative, a new platform that enables musicians and artists to livestream...
Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang says that VR’s 250 startups remind him of the dawn of graphics chips
We’ve seen the craze around virtual reality before, like when the 3D graphics chip industry was born in the 1990s. Back then, dozens of...
Microsoft releases list of first 104 Xbox 360 backward compatibility games for Xbox One
The gaming industry is about to go backward, and this isn’t a bad thing. Xbox Live director of programming Larry “Major Nelse” Hryb today...
The sexualization of Lara Croft is a thing of the past, says Rise of the Tomb Raider writer
Lara Croft’s appearance in Rise of the Tomb Raider is a long way from her unrealistically proportioned origins back in 1996. Rhianna Pratchett, lead...
Fallout 4 is the open-world game I can’t stop playing
It’s a sick joke that, if the bombs were to go off and I was forced to live in an underground vault, I’d definitely bring...
Rise of the Tomb Raider is Lara Croft’s stunning coming-of-age tale
Rise of the Tomb Raider is a grand adventure that you won’t want to miss, even if you’re one of the people who has overdosed...