DICE chief Rebecka Coutaz interview: How EA’s Battlefield studio is improving quality and culture
Rebecka Coutaz has a big job ahead of her as the new vice president and general manager of DICE, the Stockholm, Sweden-based studio that...
Nvidia’s 3D MoMa creates 3D objects from 2D sources
In an announcement at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference in New Orleans this week, Nvidia unveiled its new tool for designers to...
GameRefinery analyzes how mobile games are using blockchain tech
GameRefinery takes deep dives into mobile games and now it has released a report that explores how mobile games are using blockchain technology, which...
After a decade, Supercell’s 1st hit Hay Day keeps humming along
Supercell has generated billions of dollars in revenues over the years. It remains one of the biggest successes of the mobile gaming free-to-play boom....
Meta expands the “miniverse” with new Horizon Worlds experiences
Meta announced two new applications from big enterprises using the Horizon Worlds metaverse tools. Guitar maker Fender Musical Instruments announced its Fender Stratoverse and...
Mark Zuckerberg unveils ultra-realistic VR display prototypes
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, has been spending billions of dollars a quarter on the metaverse, which has moved very quickly from science fiction...
Admix merges with Landvault to move into making metaverse experiences
Admix is merging with Landvault, a builder in metaverse worlds like The Sandbox and Decentraland, as it pivots into Web3. The combined company will...
Kaser Focus: Keigh3 aftermath
Why does it feel like it’s been at least a month since I last wrote one of these columns? Oh right, because so much...
Sonic Frontiers elicits promise and concerns
Sonic Frontiers is planning to come out this holiday season for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. But...
The DeanBeat: Why Neal Stephenson is starting a metaverse company 3 decades after Snow Crash
It’s not often that you get to hear things from the horse’s mouth. In this case, I was able to do an interview with...