A team of University of Southern California video game students has created Cats Your Vote, a free-to-play social mobile game that aims to increase voter awareness of the 2020 U.S. election. The game is a “massively-single player game” that encourages collective action, and it explores short-sighted vs. far-sighted decision making, living with the results, and […]
Netflix's Castlevania Season 4 In The Works, Creator Shares More Details
Netflix’s animated horror series Castlevania has developed a big fanbase over the past three years, and the upcoming Season 4 is highly anticipated. Now creator Warren Ellis has hinted at what fans can expect from the next season. Reconfirming that Season 4 will happen, Ellis posted on his blog to give people a little bit […]
Xbox exec says it ‘set some wrong expectations’ for Xbox Series X game reveals
Reaction was mixed to Microsoft’s Inside Xbox livestream that showed off some of the first Xbox Series X gameplay, with many viewers complaining about the lack of actual gameplay on display Thursday morning. The YouTube upload of that Inside Xbox episode has been downvoted over 23,000 times (compared to more than 18,000 thumbs-up votes), and […]
How developers are squeezing opportunity from mobile gaming
On this week’s How Games Make Money, host Jeff Grubb talks with Idil Canal, the general manager of Max at AppLovin. She oversees a product that enables developers to monetize their games with ads. She also explains how that process has improved over time and whether there’s still room for innovation in mobile gaming. Join […]
ProBeat: Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs won’t be the last to play the coronavirus card
Yesterday, Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs killed its Toronto smart city project. raincoats designed for buildings, heated pavement, and object-classifying cameras will not be traded for unprecedented data collection. Privacy advocates celebrated — Big Brother would not be gaining even more invasive power to surveil residents. But this story is far from over. Whether one hoped for […]
How One Dev Is Making A Cross-Gen Xbox Series X / Xbox One Game
Microsoft’s most recent Inside Xbox showcase was focused squarely on the next generation, debuting a wide array of games running on Xbox Series X. Chorus, a dark single-player science-fiction game from Deep Silver–not to be confused with the crowdfunded musical game–will be the company’s first cross-gen title, appearing on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 but […]
Hand Physics Lab's Experimental Playground Comes To Sidequest
A colorful new playground for controller-free hand tracking is available now on Sidequest. The Hand Physics Lab from the studio behind SteamVR’s Holoception offers a number of switches and buttons to play with that activate different features. You can play with blocks, force push, color eggs, finger paint, stab things, hold a crowbar and a […]
Lonely Mountains: Downhill Nintendo Switch review – I want to ride my bicycle
The indie cult hit from last year pedals onto Nintendo Switch, in what is one of the most immersive action games of the year. As we’ve said before, the benefit of the Nintendo Switch being such a magnet for indie games is not just that it helps them to find a wider audience but that […]
Newzoo: 2.7 billion gamers will spend $159.3 billion on games in 2020
The world’s 2.7 billion gamers will spend $159.3 billion on games in 2020, according to a forecast by market researcher Newzoo. By 2023, the game market will surpass $200 billion. That spending level represents 9.3% growth compared to 2019, and it includes revenues for mobile, PC, and console gaming. Newzoo expects revenues for games to […]
Lyft will require drivers and passengers to wear face masks
(Reuters) — Lyft will require both passengers and drivers to wear masks and complete a health certification program, including confirming before each ride that they are not displaying symptoms associated with the novel coronavirus, the company said on Thursday. The move comes as ridesharing companies struggle to maintain revenues with millions of people worldwide under […]