Sony’s Richard Marks: Voice commands are key for transforming VR into the Holodeck
As one of the earliest developers of the PlayStation VR (PSVR) headset and having worked on countless other peripherals for the company, Sony’s Richard...
Jeopardy! finally becomes a free-to-play mobile game
Sony Pictures has finally turned its Jeopardy! TV show into a free-to-play mobile game with the launch of Jeopardy! World Tour on iOS and...
Vreal CEO Todd Hooper on the joys of VR livestreaming
Todd Hooper has shown up early at the virtual reality party. He started Vreal in Seattle to create a livestreaming platform for streamers to...
How Mark Cerny used fan feedback when designing Knack 2
When Knack debuted as a launch title for the PlayStation 4 in 2013, the critics and fans weren’t kind. The game scored 54 out...
Mark Cerny’s Knack 2 has big gameplay improvements
When I stepped into a room at Sony’s U.S. game headquarters in San Mateo, California, Mark Cerny put a game controller in my hands...
My favorite battle in Horizon Zero Dawn
I finally finished Guerrilla Games’ big hit Horizon Zero Dawn on the Sony PlayStation 4. But “finished” is a relative term. While I completed...
PlayStation interns turned the ‘Minority Report’ touch gloves into a reality
You don’t get something like PlayStation VR without a lot of experimentation. And sometimes the origins of those experiments are as obvious as you...
Nintendo ‘Switches’ up the console ad-spending charts
This biggest winner during March Madness might be Nintendo. After a gangbusters February for industry spending, gaming brands took it down a notch during...
The DeanBeat: Console games on the couch and augmented reality entertainment everywhere
Some of the best moments I’ve had playing games lately involve sitting on the couch and assuming the identity of Aloy, the female hero...
PSVR X-Wing Mission studio Criterion is working on Star Wars: Battlefront II
Electronic Arts hasn’t confirmed whether Star Wars: Battlefront II will have a virtual reality mission, but the team that made the first game’s VR...