The DeanBeat: Optimism and despair over VR at Oculus Connect
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, injected a dose of optimism into the crowd at the Oculus Connect event this week at the San Jose...
Bury me, my Love’s tale about Syrian refugees launches October 26 on iOS and Android
Indie French developers The Pixel Hunt and Figs announced today that their new mobile game, Bury me, my Love, is coming out for iOS and Android...
Discord launches verified servers for Minecraft, Squad, and more
Discord hosts dozens of Minecraft-related communities on its service, but it wants to give you an easy way to tell if you’re joining the Minecraft community....
Supersolid raises $4 million as it preps to launch Home Street mobile game
Developer Supersolid raised $4 million for its casual mobile games such as Home Street, its latest hit. Index Ventures, a venture capital firm that...
Oculus Connect 4: All the new games
Video games weren’t a big part of Oculus’s Connect 4 event today in San Jose. They took a backseat to things like the new...
Niko Partners: Taiwan’s game market on path to $2.8 billion by 2021
Asian games market researcher Niko Partners is forecasting that the Taiwanese game market will grow from $1.26 billion in 2016 to $2.8 billion by...
3rd Eye Studios raises $1 million for its VR, PC, and mobile gaming dev tool
3rd Eye Studios announced today that it has closed a $1 million round of funding. The company will use the investment on its toolset,...
Hearthstone adds its first new Warlock hero, and you can get it at a Fireside Gathering
Most people play Hearthstone online, but you’ll get a nice reward if you compete with some nearby card-slingers. Blizzard announced today that players who...
SmartBoy review: Turning your phone into a GameBoy is cool, but it’s also a pain
The Nintendo GameBoy library is a sweet chocolate box of retro gaming: little cartridges containing quaint, meticulously machine-coded 8-bit treasures. It would be a...
SpecialEffect raises $391,470 for gamers with physical disabilities
SpecialEffect, the U.K.-based charity that helps people with physical disabilities play video games, raised $391,470 (£300,000) during its fundraising event last week. That well exceeded...