The accidental history of Niantic’s Pokémon Go, as told by John Hanke
John Hanke put in his time evangelizing location-based gaming and augmented reality. He spent six years refining Ingress as the first AR game from...
Chrome will block ‘behind the scenes’ Flash content in September, make HTML5 default in December
Google has shared more details of its plan to replace Flash with HTML5 by default in Chrome. In September 2016, Chrome will block Flash content that loads...
VR VCs examine the gap between expectations and reality
Waves of virtual reality and augmented reality startups have their funding. Venture capitalists invested $1.7 billion in the AR/VR sector in the 12 months ended...
Wevr’s Neville Spiteri tells devs how to choose the right VR platform
Neville Spiteri has been dreaming about VR for a long time, and his company Wevr was early with the high-end underwater exploration game, The...
How to build a thriving games community (VB Live)
Much like the Nigerian proverb “It takes a whole village to raise a child,” it takes a thriving community for a game to reach...
Opera Mediaworks’ Will Kassoy on creating a billion ad impressions — per week
Opera Mediaworks bought mobile video ad platform AdColony in 2014. At that time, Will Kassoy’s Los Angeles company had more than 100 employees. Now,...
Google Play’s new Family Library lets up to 6 people share purchases across Android, iOS, and the web
Google today added a new feature to Google Play called Family Library. In short, Family Library lets up to 6 people share Google Play...
YouTube: Pokémon Go is ‘a unique video game phenomenon like no other’
If you haven’t heard of Pokémon Go by now, you’re probably living under a rock and I’m impressed with your ability to get online...
Google Play’s new delta algorithm reduces size of Android app updates
Google today announced Google Play store improvements focused on the size of updates. A new delta algorithm, bsdiff, has been rolled out to further...
The evolution of gaming (VB Live)
You know that old saying, “The more things change, the more they stay the same”? That’s a truism in the game industry, for sure....