Game boss interview: Epic’s Tim Sweeney on blockchain, digital humans, and Fortnite
Tim Sweeney, the CEO of Epic Games and one of the game industry’s tech savants, has traveled the world to speak about his vision...
Google launches ARCore SDK in preview: AR on Android phones, no extra hardware required
Google today launched a preview of ARCore, an Android software development kit (SDK) that brings augmented reality to existing and future Android phones without...
The DeanBeat: Intel’s 2014 Gamergate mistake paved the path for Google’s memo mess
Google is going through the throes of a diversity controversy over its firing of James Damore, the white man who wrote a diversity memo...
This indie game offers a counterpoint to the Google manifesto
Elizabeth Sampat is an award-winning game designer who’s worked on blockbuster titles like Plants Vs Zombies 2 and Subway Surfers. She also makes small, intensely...
VR can be a mainstream tech — but it’s not ready yet
Though it may seem virtual reality has emerged in the last few years, the technology has been around for quite some time. The term...
Bait! fishing game maker Tommy Palm is hooked on mobile VR
Mobile virtual reality is hard, and it isn’t growing as fast as predicted. But Resolution Games CEO Tommy Palm is sticking with it. His...
Carnegie Mellon’s ETC is like the Disneyland of video game schools
Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center became famous in part because of The Last Lecture. Computer scientist Randy Pausch and Donald Marinelli, a professor of drama,...
Schell Games builds games that change players for the better
The video game industry is full of companies that make sequels and derivative titles. But Schell Games was started by game design professor Jesse...
Adobe taps Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Mozilla to kill Flash by 2020
Flash will officially be dead in three years. Adobe today announced it will stop updating and distributing its Flash Player at the end of...
Google Play’s Indie Games Festival now taking submissions until August 6
The second Google Play Indie Games Festival will be held in San Francisco on September 23, and it’s now accepting submissions. Developers can submit their...