Following The Sims and Second Life, Rod Humble’s third act takes on religion … in a strategy game
Humble thought he'd about done it all when it came to games, but playtesters of his newest religious strategy title took even him by surprise.
Facebook engineering VP Cory Ondrejka departs after overseeing Oculus acquisition
Formerly the CTO of Second Life publisher Linden Lab, he oversaw Facebook's mobile app transition for two years.
Otoy takes 3D graphics and virtual reality app development into the cloud
Otoy uses its cloud-rendering technology to enable film, graphics, and game artists to excel at their art.
Linden Lab explores VR for its next-generation virtual world (interview)
Under new CEO Ebbe Altberg, the company is working on its successor to Second Life.
Comparing the virtual worlds of Warcraft, Second Life, and Eve Online to our own yields some surprising stats
At its peak, the number of people in World of Warcraft was bigger than Moscow, the world's fifth-largest city.
OnLive is reborn with IGN founder as chief and two new cloud-based gaming services
CloudLift and OnLive Go will deliver cloud gaming benefits to users with much less cost.
How the makers of Tearaway tapped their creativity to make a world built from paper (interview)
Rex Crowle and Christophe Villedieu drew from Instagram and other creative outlets to build an imaginative game.
Project Spark is Microsoft’s attempt to capture the magic of a Minecraft-like sandbox (interview)
Will Microsoft be able to ignite a creative revolution with Project Spark?
Linden Lab loses its star CEO, Rod Humble
The man who managed EA's The Sims business has left Linden Lab.
You can't escape the NSA — even on World of Warcraft and Xbox Live
Spycraft ain’t like it used to be. In its efforts to keep track of as much information about potential terrorists as possible, the National...