Project xCloud game-streaming test goes public in October
Microsoft is moving Project xCloud into its next phase. The game-streaming technology will open up to a public test in the United States, United...
NPD: Video game business is still growing despite disruption
Video games are going through a transition period. But this shift isn’t necessarily about the jump from one console generation to another. Instead, companies...
Gears 5 gets over 3 million players in its first weekend
Gears 5 is off to a strong start, seeing over 3 million players in its first weekend, according to Microsoft. The third-person shooter debuted...
Gears 5 interview — Rod Fergusson explains the story, characters, accessibility, and ending
Rod Fergusson, studio head of The Coalition, went out on a limb recently when he said that Gears of War 5 is the finest...
How Zynga looks for the right game companies to acquire
When Zynga sold its San Francisco headquarters for $600 million in May, the social mobile game company received a lot of fresh gunpower for...
Xbox rolls over Nintendo to lead a sleepy August for gaming industry TV spend
The summer slump for gaming brands continued in August, with the industry’s estimated total spend coming in around $3.6 million, down from July’s $6.2...
Gears 5 review — The Coalition nails action and emotion in one of series’ finest games
The Gears of War saga has always been a mixture of intense combat, serious war story, ridiculous over-the-top scenes, and comedy in a world...
Acer unveils 300Hz gaming laptop for $2,800, Planet9 esports platform
At IFA 2019 in Berlin today, Acer unveiled two gaming laptops, a gaming chair, an esports platform, four new monitors, two more refreshed laptops,...
Nick Berry interview — A data scientist confronts his own mortality
Nick Berry has stage IV cancer. He is a first-class data scientist, but even he is not certain how much time he has left....
Net Applications: Windows 10 passes 50% market share, Windows 7 falls to 30%
More than four years after its release, Windows 10 has passed 50% in market share. This means every other desktop computer is now running...