Taqtile Mobility creates a HoloLens demo for the PGA Tour
Taqtile Mobility said that it has teamed up with Microsoft to create a demo for the PGA Tour using the HoloLens augmented-reality headset. Seattle-based...
Microsoft is pulling the plug on Project Spark’s online services
Some sparks grow into a fire, an others get snuffed out. Microsoft is shutting down the game-creation sandbox Project Spark. It will no longer appear in the...
April 2016 NPD: Dark Souls III, Ratchet & Clank lead as gaming industry drops 15%
April was the Dark Souls of months for the game industry. Consumers spent $509.5 million on new game-related products at retailers in the United...
Doom casts its hellish glare on Quantum Break, Overwatch in April’s top gaming TV ads
If you’re feeling an impending sense of Doom, that’s just because Bethesda’s reboot of the classic shooter series is about to come out —...
EA: 55M PlayStation 4 and Xbox Ones sold through 2015; 25M more should sell in 2016
Electronic Arts claims it is the top publisher on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, and if it can keep that title through the end...
Microsoft celebrates 4 years of Minecraft on Xbox with free content
Minecraft on the Xbox hit an anniversary, and Microsoft wants to give you a gift to celebrate. The Xbox 360 version of Minecraft turns...
Vlambeer’s Rami Ismail shows why speaking out on behalf of indies pays off
Vlambeer has only two people, but the Dutch indie game maker has managed to draw outsized attention to itself during its six years of...
Robbie Bach’s Xbox journey, from underdog to survivor to civic leader
At our GamesBeat Summit 2016 event, that was evident in our opening fireside chat with Robbie Bach, former chief Xbox officer at Microsoft and author of the recent Xbox Revisited, a memoir of his time at Microsoft as well as his strategy for fixing our country’s problems.
The DeanBeat: Everybody is an underdog. What you do about it is what matters
At our GamesBeat Summit 2016 event this week, our theme was about underdogs. And during our talks with some of the leaders of the...
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney still opposes Microsoft’s Universal Windows Platform
Microsoft wants to unify its desktop, mobile and game platforms through the Universal Windows Platform (UWP). At the recent Microsoft Build conference, Microsoft CEO...