Threes vs. 2048: When rip-offs do better than the original game
The makers of Threes hit back with a post describing how they feel about competitors cloning their title.
Valve’s virtual-reality mastermind joins Facebook’s Oculus VR
Abrash will take the role of chief scientist at Oculus, and he plans to spend the rest of his career working on virtual reality.
The DeanBeat: The questions to ask about the current state of games
Here's the speech I made at the Game Developers Conference.
Here’s how Pixar animated Monsters University (behind-the-scenes)
With high-end graphics chips, Pixar can animate characters and scenes in real time.
The superfast rise of Oculus VR: How it went from startup to $2B acquisition in 21 months (interview)
The founders of Oculus VR describe how their startup survived its charmed life and got acquired by Facebook for $2B.
The Oculus-Facebook deal could marry tech, social, and gaming once and for all
John Carmack will be working for Facebook and other consequences of the Oculus deal.
Zuckerberg paints a surprising future for Oculus VR: ‘The most social platform ever’
Zuck recently gave the ski-goggles-like device a spin, and described the experience as entirely "unique."
Facebook is buying Oculus for $2B to ‘get ready for the platform of tomorrow’
“Mobile is the platform of today, and now we’re also getting ready for the platforms of tomorrow,” said Facebook founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg,...
Angry Birds maker signs up with Orchestrate, the database that wants to rule them all (exclusive)
"Front-end designers, Ruby programmers, Node programmers -- people who haven't used a lot of databases, they're coming to us."
Microsoft open-sources MS-DOS. ’80s kids dance in the streets
This story takes me right back to 1987, hanging out on the living room floor, futzing with floppy disks and command prompts and the original version of King's Quest.