Terminator: Salvation VR — Hands-on at the Cinemark Spaces location in San Jose
Spaces has opened its virtual reality entertainment center in a Cinemark movie theater in San Jose, California. It’s all about getting people off their couches...
Sensor Tower: Pokémon Go made over $68 million in January
Pokémon Go had a strong start to 2019. The location-based AR game made $68.1 million during the month, according to market analysis firm Sensor Tower....
Microsoft schedules Build 2019 developer conference for May 6-8 in Seattle
For the past two years, Microsoft has hosted its Build developer conference in Seattle, rather than in San Francisco. Three is a trend: The...
VR studio Fable relaunches as AI-based virtual beings company at Sundance
Virtual reality studio Fable has relaunched, shifting its focus from VR to artificial intelligence, with an emphasis on creating “virtual beings,” or believable human...
Cinemark and Spaces team up to bring VR to San Jose movie theater
Spaces is teaming up with Cinemark Holdings to open virtual reality entertainment centers in a movie theater in San Jose, California. The idea is...
Improbable promises long-term support for Unity
Unity has backed down in its battle with Improbable over the cloud platfrom SpatialOS. And now Improbable is promising to move forward with Unity...
SuperData: Digital games grew 13% to $119.6 billion in 2018; Fortnite earned $2.4 billion (updated)
Digital games and interactive media grew 13 percent to $119.6 billion in 2018, partly on the strength of Epic Games’ Fortnite, which itself generated...
Pokémon Go dev raises $245 million in funding
Developer Niantic, Inc. now has a valuation of almost $4 billion after its latest funding round. The company raised $245 million in its Series...
How Valve is changing Steam in 2019
Valve Software is finally facing some major challengers in the PC gaming space, and it is planning a number of updates to keep its...
At CES 2019, VR and AR took small but meaningful steps forward
Ahead of 2019’s Consumer Electronics Show, I hoped to see several key developments with next-generation VR and AR headsets — dramatically higher-resolution PC VR...