13 of this fall’s biggest VR games
Can you believe it’s nearly September already? It seems like it was only yesterday that we were looking ahead to 2018 and imagining all...
Black Desert Online’s Remastered campaign brings in a huge surge of players
Pearl Abyss and Kakao Games said that Black Desert Online has seen a surge of returning and new users from their Remastered campaign in...
How game developers can figure out what they’re passionate about
NBCUniversal, Intel, Microsoft, and Unity are engaged in a developer contest dubbed the Universal GameDev Challenge, in which the companies asked indie game developers to...
The DeanBeat: EA’s esports tragedy, Riot’s sexism, and Cyberpunk 2077’s awesomeness
Violence came home to the video game community this week with the shootings at a Madden esports competition in Jacksonville, Florida. A mentally disturbed...
Stop your gamers from screwing themselves and you over (VB Live)
With every instance of fraud, your game's reputation takes a nose dive, which directly impacts your bottom line. But fraud has always been notoriously difficult to combat – until now. To learn how machine learning and AI can keep your game and players safe online criminals, don’t miss this VB Live event!
China’s education ministry moves to curtail screen time for games to prevent myopia
China’s Ministry of Education issued a notice on Thursday aimed at preventing myopia, or nearsightedness, among children and adolescents by limiting the screen time...
Melbourne festival showcases Australia’s impressive game dev growth
The Melbourne International Games Week (MIGW) showed off its event program today, and it sheds light on how big Australia’s game business has become. Overall,...
Esports is hiring — and you don’t need to be a player
Chances are you’ve heard about how huge esports is becoming. It’s on TV channels like ESPN and TBS, it has hundreds of thousands –or...
Turtle Beach Elite Pro 2 is a followup to one of my favorite headsets
Up until recently, the headset I used the most often while playing games was the Turtle Beach Elite Pro. I liked the PC Edition, which...
The Tencent-Square Enix’s alliance could lead to original games
China’s Tencent is extending its reach into the video game industry with the announcement of a plan to create original game properties with Square...