Creativerse developer Playful welcomes the chance to move beyond the ‘Minecraft clone’ label
Next week is the eighth anniversary of Minecraft’s debut as a prealpha prototype, and its model for gameplay may be more influential now than...
Playful takes on Minecraft with open-world sandbox game Creativerse
Playful is launching its open-world sandbox game Creativerse on May 8 in a move that will bring it into market that Minecraft dominates. The...
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...
Lucky’s Tale creator Paul Bettner to speak on VR at GamesBeat Summit
We’re happy to be adding Lucky’s Tale creator Paul Bettner, the CEO of Playful, as a speaker for the second annual GamesBeat Summit 2016, an event that’s...
To infinity and beyond: VR games embrace space travel and innovation at E3 2014
We played as many VR games as we could at E3 2014. These are our top picks.
How Oculus VR is starting to change the direction of gaming (interview)
Two years after its founding and a few months after Facebook agreed to buy it for $2 billion, Oculus makes a triumphant return to E3.
Zynga shuts Baltimore studio and consolidates three other locations
Closures are part of Zynga's strategy to contain costs using "guard rails."
Words With Friends co-creator Paul Bettner starts a studio to focus on Ouya console games (exclusive interview)
Bettner is funding the effort himself and has pulled a team together to make an Ouya game.
Words With Friends co-creators leave Zynga
In a phone interview with GamesBeat, brothers Paul and David Bettner confirmed their departure but wouldn't say what they'll do next.