Playful Studios raises $23 million for spectator-enabled games
Playful Studios, the maker of the Lucky’s Tale series of games, has raised $23 million in funding from a wide variety of individual investors...
Oculus Rift VR launches in Canada and Europe on September 20
Oculus’ virtual love is beginning to spread to new territories. The virtual reality company announced today that its Rift headset will become available in Canada and in...
Playful’s Paul Bettner: VR is just getting its start, like Disney in the 1920s
Paul Bettner has been waiting for virtual reality for decades. That’s one reason why his VR gaming studio, Playful, created Lucky’s Tale as a...
Watch us play Lucky’s Tale in virtual reality with the Oculus Rift
Virtual reality is giving players a more immersive connection to video game worlds, and one of the best early examples of this is an Oculus Rift...
6 Oculus Rift experiences primed to change the way we think about VR
This sponsored post is produced by Nvidia. March 28 sees the long-anticipated release of the Oculus Rift, the first mass-market VR headset capable of...
Lucky’s Tale sometimes feels like the Big Bad Wolf is coming at you in virtual reality
Virtual reality gives people the chance to enter incredible make-believe worlds … but the results of that are often unsettling instead of wondrous. Playful,...
Oculus Rift made me realize I only want to play games in virtual reality
I’m too disorganized for real-time strategy. I’ve had my fill of fast-paced flight games. I’d don’t want to play another minigame collection ever again. But...
Lucky’s Tale developer re-created Mario and Banjo-Kazooie levels to figure out VR level design
Most virtual reality games will put you into the action from a first-person perspective, but a few are going for the classic third-person viewpoint of...
$599 Oculus Rift headset and 100 games will kickstart VR in 2016
CES was a big event for Oculus VR, the maker of the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. The Facebook-owned company said it would begin...
Lucky’s Tale developer Playful raises $25M to fund its virtual reality development
Investors are looking ahead, and they like what they see from one of the first companies highly focused on producing original virtual-reality games. Playful...