BioWare interview: How EA’s huge bet on Anthem is turning out in the home stretch
Mike Gamble has an appropriate last name as the lead producer on BioWare’s new science-fiction video game, Anthem. Electronic Arts, the parent company of...
Quake 2 is the best argument for Nvidia’s ray tracing
If you want to see the potential of ray tracing, you should look to Quake 2. A new mod called Q2VKPT (Quake 2 with...
Resident Evil 2 review — Too much fun to be scared
I have enough stress in my life. I’m a parent to a young kid. We’ve got another one arriving any minute now. The future...
How EA quickly captures 3D scans of athletes’ faces for its sports games
At the recent CES 2019 tech trade show in Las Vegas, Canon and Electronic Arts showed off how they capture 3D scans of the...
Tale of a 44-year-old Magic: The Gathering virgin
With the amount of hours I’ve logged into Hearthstone, The Elder Scrolls: Legends, and Solforge, you’d think I would have been a long-time collectible...
Machine learning is rescuing old game textures in Zelda and Final Fantasy
The first generation of 3D video games are ugly. I think they are ugly in a charming way, but many people disagree with even...
The DeanBeat: Sorting out the Epic-Unity-Improbable mess
If I’ve concluded one thing from the spat in the past week between Unity Technologies, Improbable, and Epic Games, it’s that it won’t be...
Hitman’s IO Interactive opens new studio in Sweden
Agent 47 is going to get a little help from Sweden. Developer IO Interactive announced today that it is opening a new studio in Malmö,...
SuperData: Digital games grew 13% to $119.6 billion in 2018; Fortnite earned $2.4 billion (updated)
Digital games and interactive media grew 13 percent to $119.6 billion in 2018, partly on the strength of Epic Games’ Fortnite, which itself generated...
Unity scraps TOS change in dispute with Improbable, schedules Reddit chat
Unity Technologies backed down on its previous stance in a dispute that erupted last week with SpatialOS platform maker Improbable and rival game engine...