Oculus’s head of marketing joins Microsoft’s mixed reality division
Microsoft today revealed it hired Liz Hamren from Oculus to head up marketing for mixed reality as the company begins to build out its efforts...
Unity 5.6 launches with support for Vulkan graphics, Nintendo Switch, and more
One of gaming’s most popular development tools is getting a ton of improvements as the company responsible prepares for the future. Unity 5.6 is...
Hearthstone: Journey to Un’Goro is launching on April 6
Hearthstone’s dinosaurs are just a few stomps away. Blizzard announced today that the next expansion for its digital card game behemoth, Journey to Un’Goro,...
THQ Nordic acquires the retro action-platformer Rad Rodgers
THQ Nordic has once again expanded its portfolio. The publisher announced today that it has purchased the assets of Slipgate Studios, which developed the action-platformer Rad Rodgers for PC. THQ Nordic now owns the series.
Rocket League is about family now — ‘The Fate of the Furious’ DLC pack is coming soon
I live my Rocket League matches a quarter mile at a time, and if you’re a cop, you have to tell me. Developer Psyonix...
Is it OK that Splatoon 2 is just more Splatoon? GamesBeat Decides
You are a squid now. You are a kid now. You are my friend now — if you subscribe to this podcast about Splatoon....
Ex-Samsung exec Mihai Pohontu takes CEO job at Romania’s Amber game studio
In four year’s, Romanian game development services firm Amber has grown to 280 employees. And today, the Bucharest company is naming Romanian native Mihai...
Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds tops King of the Kill as Steam’s latest flavor of the month
The PC gaming community on Steam often moves from one game to another as a group, and where that used to mean survival games...
Crowfall shows how its players will create their own lands and towns
It turns out creating your own online kingdom can be as easy as dragging and dropping some blocks ArtCraft Entertainment released a new video...
Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey leaves Facebook
Palmer Luckey, who founded Oculus Rift and who many credit with reviving the virtual reality industry, has left Oculus VR and Facebook, as UploadVR reports. Facebook and Luckey are not sharing the details of the split, but it comes after months of silence from what the social network once positioned as the father of VR.
