Watch Dogs 2 excoriates Silicon Valley’s tech companies and warns about election fraud
By choosing to set Watch Dogs 2 in the smart city of San Francisco, Ubisoft’s game creators were able to sharpen their criticism of...
Watch us play Oculus Touch games like VR Sports Challenge and I Expect You to Die
I’m still digging the Oculus Touch controllers that Facebook’s VR subsidiary launched earlier this month, and that’s not only because they make me feel...
Epic’s Tim Sweeney: Be patient. The Metaverse will come. And it will be open.
I hear a lot of speeches. But Tim Sweeney, the CEO of Epic Games and a longtime graphics guru, stitched together the best vision...
Oculus VR CEO Brendan Iribe steps aside as company shuffles structure for mobile and PC VR groups
Facebook’s Oculus VR division is expanding its efforts to do both mobile and PC virtual reality systems. And the company is searching for a...
Why Qualcomm believes that the future of VR and AR is mobile
Qualcomm Technologies is bullish on virtual reality and augmented reality, but it isn’t satisfied with the technology yet. The company is crafting its latest...
What PewDiePie’s hissy fit teaches us about YouTube
There’s been a lot written recently about how YouTube star PewDiePie—whose real name is Felix Kjellberg—is threatening to delete his hugely successful channel, and...
Pokémon Go was the third most discussed topic on Facebook in 2016. The first? You’ll never guess…
Is it 2017 yet? No? Damn. Well, we’re almost there, but before the year from hell officially comes to an end, the giants from...
The DeanBeat: The gaming world is flat, but you can tilt it in your direction
TOKYO – I’m third-generation Japanese-American. My grandparents came from Japan as farmers about 100 years ago. I considered it an honor to be able...
Facebook brings ‘instant’ HTML5 games like Pac-Man to your News Feed and Messenger
Facebook wants to completely remove the barrier between you and games on its platform, and it is using HTML5 to accomplish that across mobile...
Venture capitalists contemplate how much exuberance is good for VR investing
Is virtual reality a bubble? That’s a common question in a number of panels I’ve covered in the past year. The answer isn’t quite...