Jade Raymond will head Google’s own game studio, Stadia Games and Entertainment
Jade Raymond, former executive at Electronic Arts and Ubisoft, will serve as head of Google’s first-party game studio, Stadia Games and Entertainment, for the...
Google unveils Stadia cloud gaming platform to play games anywhere
Google CEO Sundar Pichai and executive Phil Harrison introduced Google’s cloud gaming platform, Stadia, at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. They also showed...
Sinespace teams up with Unity to sell do-it-yourself virtual world SDK
Sinespace maker Sine Wave Entertainment has teamed up with Unity Technologies to make its virtual reality marketplace objects available via a software development kit...
Unity partners with Tencent to help game devs get into China
Unity chief executive officer John Riccitiello will partner with Tencent to support Tencent Cloud. This will be available later this year. Riccitiello made the...
Ray tracing on GTX cards is the medium popcorn of computer graphics
Nvidia announced today that it is unlocking DirectX Raytracing capabilities in its last-generation Pascal GPUs. Real-time ray tracing features like global illumination, reflections, and...
PlayerUnknown Brendan Greene moves on to a new battleground with special assignment
Brendan Greene, the creator of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG), announced today the formation of a new team within PUBG Corp. in Amsterdam, dedicated to work...
Minecraft still has 91 million monthly players as it hits Game Pass
While everyone can’t stop talking about Apex Legends and Fortnite, Minecraft continues to be one of the most played games in the world. Microsoft...
Halo: Master Chief Collection comes to PC with Halo: Reach
Halo is coming back to the personal computer. Microsoft revealed today that it is launching Halo: The Master Chief Collection on Windows. This bundle...
GDC chief Katie Stern interview — What keeps game developers up at night?
Katie Stern took over as general manager of GDC Events in August 2017. Since then, she has learned more about what keeps game developers...
Carolyn Petit interview — A good reception for Queer Tropes in Video Games series
Surprisingly, Carolyn Petit didn’t get a lot of hate this week. Petit was out in front as the host of Queer Tropes in Video...