Epic Games acquires facial animation technology maker Cubic Motion
Epic Games has acquired Cubic Motion, a provider of automated performance-driven facial animation technology for video games, film, broadcast, and immersive experiences such as...
ILM reveals how it used Unreal Engine for ‘The Mandalorian’
Visual-effects production house Industrial Light & Magic published a closer look at some of the new techniques it used for The Mandalorian today. I previously...
Fortnite’s second Season 2 expects you to die
Do I need to play the first Fortnite Season 2 to understand what’s happening in the second Season 2? Well, I can find out...
Tim Sweeney: Android is a fake open system, and iOS is worse
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney opened the DICE Summit game event in Las Vegas today with a call to make the industry more open...
Fortnite is hosting a PS4 tournament on February 15 and 16
Sony announced today that Epic Games is hosting The Fortnite Celebration Cup on February 15 and February 16 as an exclusive tournament for PlayStation...
Xbox Q2 revenue sinks 21% as Microsoft reloads for next gen
Microsoft’s gaming revenue dropped significantly in the second quarter of its fiscal 2020. Xbox’s Q2 revenue plummeted 21% year-over-year during the three-month period ending...
Blizzard owns your Warcraft 3: Reforged custom games
The next Auto Chess or DOTA probably isn’t going to happen in Warcraft 3: Reforged. And if it does, Activision Blizzard is automatically going...
PlayVS brings Fortnite to high school and college esports tournaments
PlayVS will bring organized Fortnite competitions to high schools and colleges in the U.S. PlayVS already uses its software platform to organize popular esports...
Epic Games Store third-party games hit $251 million in player spending
Epic Games is celebrating the growth of its PC gaming store by sharing a number of informational tidbits about its performance. Most notably, the...
GamesBeat Rewind 2019: The year’s biggest trends … and where they’re heading in 2020
The game industry is in a huge period of flux, but 2019 only set the stage for enormous paradigm shifts that the coming year...