‘Twitch plays politics’: Gaming service to stream GOP and Dem conventions
Twitch has announced that it plans to livestream the upcoming political conventions, giving people who are already fed up with the current election season and...
The smart way to approach mobile game influencers
GamesBeat recently held two “road show” events on mobile gaming influencers in New York and Seattle (see part one here). At each event, we discussed...
Unity’s David Helgason on game design, VR, and mobile’s future
David Helgason cofounded Unity Technologies in 2003 to make a game engine that could help democratize game development. Over more than a decade, he...
How Unity is pushing VR and better 3D graphics with its game engine
Unity Technologies showed off some high-end graphics demos created with its Unity 5 game engine last week at the Game Developers Conference. That shows...
Twitch users decided my fate in a VR game built on Amazon Lumberyard
Hidden away on the exhibition floor at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco today, I found a short line next to the big...
Inside Amazon’s decision to make a video game engine
Amazon launched its Lumberyard video game engine this week, showing its intentions to become a much bigger platform company in the games business. To date,...
Amazon takes on Unity, Unreal, Stingray, and more with Lumberyard, a free cross-platform game engine
Amazon has unveiled two new products aimed squarely at the professional game-developer fraternity: Lumberyard, a free 3D game engine; and GameLift, a service for...
Amazon Prime members get 20% off games in effort to counter Best Buy, GameStop, and EA Access
Retailers want loyal gaming customers, and another one is showing today that it’s willing to offer discounts to keep you coming back. Amazon is...
Call of Duty, Fallout 4, and Star Wars Battlefront are Amazon’s top-selling games
Amazon said that its top video games of the holiday season were the year’s biggest blockbusters: Call of Duty: Black Ops III, Fallout 4,...
Glu CEO predicts the trends that will be hot next year in mobile games
Glu Mobile has seen some ups and downs in the past year in mobile games. The San Francisco game publisher’s fortunes will rise and...