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Universal's latest potential game franchises: Back to the Future, Battlestar Galactica, Turok, and Voltron.

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How game developers can figure out what they’re passionate about

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 31, 2018
23 min

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...

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23 min

The Great C is a short story by Philip K. Dick.

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‘The Great C‘ hands-on: Adapting a Philip K. Dick short story into cinematic VR

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 29, 2018
4 min

Entertainment One’s Secret Location is showing off its virtual reality film adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s short story The Great C at the Venice film festival...

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4 min

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The Messenger review — more than a simple Ninja Gaiden tribute

Posted byby Mike Minotti
August 28, 2018
3 min

The Messenger is another indie game taking inspiration from the action-platformers of the 8-bit and 16-bit eras. But while the likes of Shovel Knight and Sundered...

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3 min

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Donut County review — It’s fun to swallow the world with a donut hole

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 27, 2018
4 min

Donut County is a crazy video game where you position a donut hole under objects and they fall into it. The more items you...

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4 min

Cooler Master's C552, which is available at Best Buy.

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Cooler Master CK552 keyboard review — who you gonna call?

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
August 26, 2018
4 min

The mechanical gaming keyboard market is so overstuffed that you can find a decent one for a fair price from just about any brand that...

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4 min

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Starlink: Battle for Atlas hands-on preview — on my mission to save toys-to-life

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 25, 2018
6 min

Ubisoft showed off its new entry in the “toys-to-life” market, Starlink: Battle for Atlas. I played it at a preview event, and it brought back memories...

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6 min

Alex Tapscott co-wrote the Blockchain Revolution with his father Don Tapscott.

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Alex Tapscott interview: Taking stock of the blockchain revolution

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
August 24, 2018
14 min

Punditry runs in this family. Don Tapscott has been writing about business strategy for decades, doing everything from pontificating about Wikinomics to giving Ted...