Facebook’s advice on how to monetize your mobile games may surprise you (interview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi May 7, 2014 8 min Dan Morris and Vishu Gupta of Facebook's games group describe how to cash in with free-to-play titles. Continue Reading 8 min
Why did Oculus VR join Facebook? Because consoles don’t reach a billion people Posted byby GamesBeat May 5, 2014 2 min As Oculus VR CEO Brendan Iribe weighed the decision to sell his hot virtual reality startup to Facebook, he asked himself, “Do we want... Continue Reading 2 min
Oculus VR’s John Carmack: The Rift uses ‘zero lines of code that I wrote while’ at Zenimax Posted byby Jeff Grubb May 2, 2014 2 min The Doom co-creator defended himself and his company from accusations from his former employer. Continue Reading 2 min
Facebook’s desktop gaming revenue slips in the first quarter of 2014 Posted byby Mike Minotti April 24, 2014 1 min Zynga and King games make up most of Facebook's app revenue. Continue Reading 1 min
Dead Underground turns London’s subway map into a zombie-strategy blast Posted byby GamesBeat April 22, 2014 5 min Creating tension and excitement in a free browser game is a tough ask, but this is one zombie title worth diving into from your desk. Continue Reading 5 min
The DeanBeat: Virtual-reality startups like Survios are moving into Oculus Rift’s slipstream Posted byby Dean Takahashi April 4, 2014 5 min Survios is a young company, but it is already getting a lift less than two weeks after Facebook's stunning $2 billion acquisition of Oculus VR. Continue Reading 5 min
Valve’s virtual-reality mastermind joins Facebook’s Oculus VR Posted byby Jeff Grubb March 28, 2014 3 min Abrash will take the role of chief scientist at Oculus, and he plans to spend the rest of his career working on virtual reality. Continue Reading 3 min
Founder of Facebook’s new virtual-reality company: Sony’s Project Morpheus is ‘a good thing for VR’ Posted byby Jeff Grubb March 26, 2014 2 min Oculus founder Palmer Luckey thinks that most Morpheus games will end up on Rift. Continue Reading 2 min
The superfast rise of Oculus VR: How it went from startup to $2B acquisition in 21 months (interview) Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 26, 2014 8 min The founders of Oculus VR describe how their startup survived its charmed life and got acquired by Facebook for $2B. Continue Reading 8 min
The Oculus-Facebook deal could marry tech, social, and gaming once and for all Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 26, 2014 9 min John Carmack will be working for Facebook and other consequences of the Oculus deal. Continue Reading 9 min