Dan Bunting interview — How Treyarch built battle royale into Call of Duty: Black Ops 4
Dan Bunting has worked at Treyarch for 15 years, and he picked a heck of a time to become the co-head of the Activsion-owned...
Vizio Atmos Home Theater review — Great soundbar, but Atmos is frustrating
Dolby Atmos is here. It’s the 3D positional audio technology from Dolby that adds height and movement through object-based sound instead of speaker-based. And...
How Streamlabs is helping livestreamers monetize their audience via tips
Streamlabs is out to make the Leisure Economy, where people get paid to play games, into a reality. It does so by enabling viewers...
CryptoKitties explained: Why players have bred over a million blockchain felines
CryptoKitties hit a milestone recently as players have bred more than a million unique virtual kitties in a demonstration of the usefulness or maybe silliness...
Transformers godfather Simon Furman: Rolling out on his first video game
Simon Furman has been involved with Transformers since the brand turned from a Japanese toy into a Western phenomenon in the 1980s. He started...
Super Mario Party review — It’s finally fun again
Mario Party is due a renaissance. It hasn’t felt all that much different since it debuted on the Nintendo 64 way back in 1998....
The infuriating design of Pathfinder: Kingmaker shows the value of a Dungeon Master
Here’s the kind of game Pathfinder: Kingmaker (Owlcat Games, PC) is. It opens with a fairly linear tutorial that lasts about an hour, introducing players...
Mega Man 11 review — Right balance of old and new
Break time’s over, Mega Man. It’s been more than eight years since the release of Mega Man 10, but Capcom is finally giving us...
NBA 2K League chief: Global scale will be key to making money in esports
The inaugural season of the NBA 2K League was a success by most measures. When it culminated in August, the esports series had more...
Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey review-in-progress — Impossibly dense
For the second year in a row, Ubisoft is launching a new Assassin’s Creed game. Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey is the latest entry in the...