Rec Room social VR devs show users how to fight harassment
The developers behind popular social VR experience Rec Room posted a video showing users how players can easily block someone who is antagonizing them...
More than 5% of Facebook’s workforce deals with AR and VR
Two pieces of information from Facebook sources have given us new insight into the division of labor inside the social media giant. Words spoken by...
McAfee launches a game for World Password Day
McAfee has created the True Key Game to celebrate World Password Day. It may seem silly, but security firm McAfee knows that games are engaging and...
Zynga launches Words With Friends for Instant Games on Facebook Messenger
Zynga is starting to bet big on Instant Games, the instantly playable games on Facebook Messenger and iMessage. And today, the company is launching...
Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview with My People features
Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview for PCs, ahead of its May 2 event next week. The main addition is My People,...
The DeanBeat: How Anita Sarkeesian’s Feminist Frequency changed games
Some people say Anita Sarkeesian threw a bunch of rocks at the game industry. But I know that she did more than hurl stones...
Microsoft reports $23.6 billion in Q3 2017 revenue: Azure up 93%, Surface down 26%, and Windows up 5%
Microsoft today reported earnings for its third fiscal quarter of 2017, including revenue of $23.6 billion, net income of $5.7 billion, and earnings per...
Pictionary’s first mobile app lets you sketch on the go
Mattel and mobile game company Etermax have teamed up to take the classic Pictionary sketching game to mobile devices for the first time. The...
Oculus’s Michael Abrash: AR glasses will change everything in ‘the next 50 years’
Oculus chief scientist Michael Abrash believes that we may soon see the proliferation of augmented reality glasses, describing them as possibly “one of the...
Everything Facebook announced at F8 2017
Facebook has unveiled a host of new features at its 2017 F8 developer conference, most focused on the curation of its global community. Attendees...