This week, Billy Langsworthy looks at why the toy space should be excited at some of the new VR tech being showcased at this year's Game Developers Conference. Oh, and there's a bit about a vagina speaker. You've been warned. This week, ...
Tags: Inventors, Virtual reality
Titled Effwords, the game brings tile-based word play to the world of badult gaming and is on Kickstarter, now. A word game that champions risqué definitions and is billed as ‘Scrabble meets Cards Against Humanity’ ...
Tags: Cards game, new Effwords
Google has announced a new tool for game developers which should go a long way to improving the multiplayer experience for Android TV owners. The Nearby Connections API, which was announced at the Games Developers' Conference conference ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, MWC
“We are looking forward to a successful 2015,” said John Dyer, director and senior artists at Paul Windle Design. Paul Windle Designs has outlined its plans to work even closer with the toy and game industry as the firm ...
Tags: Paul Windle, Star Wars Rebels, Toys
It's a common enough scenario in Nigeria and across Africa: how to get rid of pesky mosquitoes whose buzzing disturbs sleep and whose bites can carry malaria and other diseases. Two Nigerian start-ups have tapped this—and other ...
As Fashion Week closes in Manhattan, New York's outer boroughs are offering a glimpse of what the best-dressed techies will be wearing this Valentines Day: electronic-embedded costumes for a video game that demands hand-holding. There's ...
Tags: Video Game, Game Innovation
Since its first entry into the home console market in 1983, with the release of the Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendo has been at the forefront of console gaming. The company, with a combination of solid hardware, family-friendly ...
Tags: Nintendo, Wii, multiplayer games, Zelda and Mario
One way to win the predictions game is to make a lot of guesses and remember just the winners. Here at IEEE Spectrum, we play a harder game. We told you what to expect in 2013, and now we are 'fessing up to our misses, as well as bragging ...
Tags: Postmortem, IEEE Spectrum
Virtual reality has been hyped as the next big thing for decades—and yet,it never seems to deliver.Despite the potential,particularly in the world of gaming,numerous attempts have left players dizzy with disappointment,and just plain ...
Tags: Oculus Rift, virtual reality
The Xbox One won't quite replace your TV set-top box, but it comes awfully close. The latest game console from Microsoft takes a big leap toward being the main entertainment hub in your living room. It gives you a program guide for browsing ...
Tags: xBox, Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Technology and Gadgets (TAG) has introduced XFX Radeon R9 and R7series graphics cards. These are powered with AMD GPUs, AMD's second-Generation GCN Architecture and PowerTune Technology to deliver optimized gaming performance. XFX's new ...
Tags: TAG, launch, AMD, Radeon Series Graphics Cards
Nintendo's Wii U is currently suffering from weak shipments and its quarterly shipments are even lower than those of the Wii, the previous-generation model. Seeing the issue, most third-party game developers have decided to withdraw from ...
Tags: Business Strategy, Nintendo
Facebook today announced a pilot program aimed at helping developers take their mobile games global. The world's largest social network is looking to use its massive mobile user base to help game developers stand out in what has become a ...
Tags: Mobile Game, facebook, Computer Products, APP
Jesse Schell, CEO, Schell Games, and Nolan Bushnell, Former CEO, Atari, will kick off the 2013 Serious Play Conference (SPC) Tuesday – Thursday, Aug. 20 – 22, 2013, with a keynote address at DigiPen Institute of Technology in ...
A series of blunders by Microsoft have paved the way for Sony's PlayStation 4 console to capture the top spot in year-end holiday sales. "In terms of the initial sales of Xbox One and the PS4 I think the $100 price difference will make a ...