Intel and AMD reportedly have powerful new multicore CPUs coming
I think it was The Pixies that said “If man is an i5, then God is an i7.” Or something like that. I’m not...
Epic Games’ Tim Sweeney fears the Metaverse will be a proprietary technology
Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, believes the future of gaming is coming faster than we think. But he’s also worried that industry giants...
Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2 is flying to Switch, PS4, Xbox One, and PC
Lego is going back to one the biggest franchises in its licensed stable. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment announced today that Lego Marvel Super Heroes...
Former Disney leader will guide NBCUniversal into mobile games
Disney has staged a big retreat from internally-built games. And NBCUniversal is going to benefit from that, as it has hired Disney’s former mobile...
Aquantia’s chips will enable blazing-fast local area network games
Aquantia is introducing new network interface cards (NICs) that can transfer data on home and enterprise networks at multiple gigabits per second. In doing...
How Toronto is becoming its own Canadian hub for game development
Immigration restrictions in the U.S. could hurt game companies in our country. It will limit the potential talent pool, making it difficult for top...
Hitman is the future of games — even if it’s not the future of Square Enix
The people who make hit movies or top-40 songs often have a gift for predicting what new types of experiences audiences are looking. Video games...
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...
The DeanBeat: What’s behind this week’s big investments in games
Sometimes the game industry seems small and quiet compared to a “hot” industry like artificial intelligence. Then we get a week like this one,...
Paradox is giving Cities: Skylines a sci-fi cousin set on Mars
Paradox Interactive has explored the history of Europe and the future of galactic politics, but now it’s working with developer Haemimont Games to show...