The ‘President of Virtual Reality’ says he can create 3 million jobs in VR
If you’ve ever read Ready Player One, this might sound familiar. Jon “Neverdie” Jacobs, an actor and entrepreneur who once bought a virtual asteroid for...
Lucid Sight scores $3.5 million for VR game development and ad platform
Lucid Sight said that it has raised $3.5 million in funding to accelerate virtual reality game development and launch a VR advertising platform. The...
Xbox Live is giving away nearly 1 million dead gamertags on May 18
You could finally get that new Xbox Live name you’ve always wanted. Microsoft revealed today that its making about 1 million gamertags available for registering...
Rovio: ‘The Angry Birds Movie’ brought in $43M in its opening weekend
Rovio Entertainment has bet the company on “The Angry Birds Movie,” which debuted this weekend in numerous territories and hits the U.S. on May...
Google targets HTML5 default for Chrome instead of Flash in Q4 2016
Google has outlined a plan to push HTML5 by default in Chrome, instead of Flash. In Q4 2016, the company plans to only serve...
Microsoft is pulling the plug on Project Spark’s online services
Some sparks grow into a fire, an others get snuffed out. Microsoft is shutting down the game-creation sandbox Project Spark. It will no longer appear in the...
April 2016 NPD: Dark Souls III, Ratchet & Clank lead as gaming industry drops 15%
April was the Dark Souls of months for the game industry. Consumers spent $509.5 million on new game-related products at retailers in the United...
Nvidia zooms by earnings targets thanks to graphics chip demand from cars and games
Graphics chip maker Nvidia reported earnings for its fIrst fiscal quarter ended April 30 that beat Wall Street’s expectations. Nvidia’s results are a bellwether for...
MZ appoints ex-Salesforce exec to run its real-time cloud platform
MZ, the mobile game company formerly known as Machine Zone, recently launched a new real-time cloud platform that it built for its Game of...
Oculus and Samsung have 1M Gear VR users
Oculus has already sold more than 1 million virtual reality head-mounted displays — although most of those are the Gear VR peripheral for Samsung...
