Social VR’s best platform is the open web, not walled gardens
That mainstream appeal for VR continues to elude the mixed reality industry in Western markets is a point I touched on last week when...
Unity will release its Carte Blanche VR creation tools in October (updated)
Unity had some big VR news to share at its Unite Tokyo conference earlier this week. According to tweets from the event, which wasn’t...
Shader Forge is now open-source and free to all developers
Unity plugin Shader Forge has contributed to the stylish looks of games such as The Chinese Room’s Dear Esther and Monomi Park’s Slime Rancher,...
AR experience Terminal 3 puts you in the boots of a U.S. customs officer
The augmented reality experience Terminal 3 tells the stories of Muslims who face additional screenings whenever they want to enter the United States. Players take...
Tencent is the biggest fish in the $22 billion game investment pond
In game-industry deal-making, there’s Tencent, then there’s everyone else. The Chinese behemoth led or participated in over $4 of every $10 invested in games...
Unity lets developers use Kin cryptocurrency to reward gamers
Game engine creator Unity Technologies has teamed up with messaging app company Kik to enable game developers to use Kik’s Kin cryptocurrency to reward...
Unity emphasizes quality over quantity in latest game engine improvements
Unity CEO John Riccitiello said at a developer event that the company reaches billions of players through its game engine customers, who generate billions...
The Sims creator Will Wright is working on a Unity mobile game called Proxi
Will Wright, creator of memorable games like SimCity and The Sims, is coming back to games. He announced in a video today that he...
NBC Universal, Unity, Intel, and Microsoft kick off big indie game contest
Some big companies are getting together to create an indie game developers contest that will enable them to make prototype games based on some...
Google Maps helps developers make massive real-world games
Pokémon Go took the world by storm in July 2016 when it debuted with game characters embedded in real-world maps. Now Google is making...