Beyond the app store: Why mobile games need a multi-platform strategy Learn how to go beyond the tried-and-true pathways to improve discoverability, create community, and scale your mobile business. View On Demand Ubisoft’s Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege has hit 70 million registered players, including 15 million in the past year. The French video game […]
Olivia Cooke and Jack O’Connell star as a young couple struggling to stay together as a memory-wiping virus spreads unchecked in Little Fish. A young couple fights to hold its relationship together in the midst of pandemic, where a memory loss virus is robbing everyone of their memories in Little Fish, a new science fiction […]
Chrome Users of Google’s Chrome browser have faced three security concerns over the past 24 hours in the form of a malicious extension with more than 2 million users, a just-fixed zero-day, and new information about how malware can abuse Chrome’s sync feature to bypass firewalls. Let’s discuss them one by one. First up, the […]
The Game Awards always inspires me to think about the possibilities of gaming. The show looks into the past year, which now seems like a century ago, to review all the games that deserve awards. And it looks ahead with world premieres that promise us good things to come. The games that show up in […]
SpaceX founder Elon Musk says travel to Mars is within reach, with the possibility of having 1 million people living on Mars within 100 years. SpaceX isn’t alone in working toward reaching Mars, however. In fact, there are quite a number of missions, both manned and unmanned, that are currently planned or under proposal from […]
The gaming industry showed few signs of a struggling economy in March setting new sales records, according to data from the NPD Group. Nintendo’s Animal Crossing: New Horizons led the pack as the top-selling game of March, and it dethroned the now-second place Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, which was the top-selling game of February. […]
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured another image of one of the strange and wondrous sights of our universe — this one showing the spiral galaxy NGC 4651, also known as the Umbrella Galaxy. Although the galaxy “may look serene and peaceful as it swirls in the vast, silent emptiness of space,” Hubble astronomers write, […]
Dragon versus nautiloid, round one. Larian Studios The nautiloid begins laying waste to a major town in the Forgotten Realms universe. Larian Studios Thankfully, said nautiloid is interrupted by dragons emerging from a portal. Larian Studios The nautiloid derives its power from a few major heroes, who’ve been affected by having insects burrow into their […]
This video is made possible by Intel’s GameDev BOOST program — dedicated to helping indie game developers everywhere achieve their dreams. Certain Affinity isn’t your typical indie developer. Thanks to its co-development business model, it’s been able to work on huge franchises like Call of Duty, Halo, Doom, and World of Tanks. Under the leadership […]
Inside this concrete slab hides the biggest collection of the rarest pinball and electromechanical games ever made. Sam Machkovech This was taken by standing on a chair in one corner of the venue. You can get a sense of the machine variety here: mostly pinball and electromechanical, with about one-fifth of the space dedicated to […]
Enlarge / A Google Stadia controller and a Google Chromecast Ultra. Google Google Stadia will bring 4K game streaming to customers in November, but the new service could be costly for users who face home-Internet data caps and want to play games at the highest possible settings. Google says you’ll need 35Mbps to play at […]
MENLO PARK, Calif. — Mark Zuckerberg declared in March that he planned to shift Facebook away from being a public town square and to private communications. Now, the chief executive is rolling out the first in a series of changes to achieve that. On Tuesday at its annual developer conference, Facebook unveiled a redesign of […]
For its latest game, Remedy Entertainment followed a simple mantra: “Let’s get weird.” The Finland-based developer has always had a fascination with the supernatural, creating both the shadowy horrors in Alan Wake and the time-shifting powers in Quantum Break. Like those games, Control (out August 27 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC) is a […]
Ronan Glon/Digital Trends Android started out as a mobile operating system, but over the 10 years since it came to market, it has become so much more. Forks of Android now act as Google’s operating system across a wide variety of different form factors, from automobiles to smartwatches. Because it’s open source — freely available […]
Is Google taking workplace sexual harassment seriously? On Thursday, The New York Times published a story that claims Google paid $ 90 million to Android founder Andy Rubin in his exit package — even though he was forced to resign in 2014 over a credible sexual misconduct claim. The report goes on to paint a […]