Epic Games’ Tim Sweeney on creating believable digital humans
Epic Games stunned everyone a couple of years ago with the realistic digital human character Senua, from the video game Hellblade. And today, the...
Epic Games shows off amazing real-time digital human with Siren demo
Epic Games, CubicMotion, 3Lateral, Tencent, and Vicon took a big step toward creating believable digital humans today with the debut of Siren, a demo of...
Epic Games demos the digital version of actor Andy Serkis
Epic Games and 3Lateral showed off a digital version of actor Andy Serkis, who starred in The Lord of the Rings and Planet of...
Epic Games shows real-time ray tracing in Unreal Engine with Star Wars demo
At first, when I looked at the Star Wars scene featuring two First Order stormtroopers and Captain Phasma, I thought it was a film....
Designing for VR accessibility means dialing down from, or sometimes up to, 11
For the past year, Lori Landay has worked on using virtual and augmented reality to help people on the autism spectrum tackle challenging experiences...
What gaming stories can learn from the world of professional wrestling
Video game story writers could learn something from professional wrestling. That’s what independent developer Luis De Leon of 2401 Studios argued at this year’s Game...
Gosu.ai raises $1.9 million to automate game training advice
Alisa Chumachenko, the founder of Game Insight, is back with a new startup called Gosu.ai, which she bills as a training lab that combines...
International Mobile Gaming Awards celebrates indies and considers the future of the industry
Indie games took home most of the prizes in tonight’s 14th annual International Mobile Gaming Awards (IMGA) ceremony. Titles like Tender Claws’ meta adventure...
Ubisoft evades hostile takeover by swapping Vivendi for Tencent
Ubisoft is announcing today that French multimedia conglomerate Vivendi is selling all of its shares in the game maker. This ends Vivendi’s bid to...
Resolution Games reveals AR fishing game Bait! Under the Surface
Resolution Games scored a hit with its Bait! virtual reality fishing game on the Samsung Gear VR in 2016 and the Google Daydream in...