Samsung May 3, 2016 Why Samsung’s Gear VR is a virtual reality game-changer Boring, dull, and repetitive. That’s the reason a few teens told me they don’t play first-person shooters anymore. Rinse and repeat with a grenade launcher and an AK-47? No thanks.
Home Ent May 3, 2016 'The Order: 1886' leaps into the world of blockbuster video games Independent video game studio Ready at Dawn is well-known for its titles played on handheld devices such as Sony’s PSP, but the game developer is now jumping into the Hollywood-esque blockbuster world of console titles with Friday’s release of “The Order: 1886.”
Home Ent May 3, 2016 Museum launches World Video Game Hall of Fame The Strong – a Rochester, New York-based museum dedicated to the “history and exploration of play” – announced that it will establish the World Video Game Hall of Fame. This new hall will honor electronic games, a broad category that includes console, handheld, mobile, computer, and classic arcade video games.
Video Games May 3, 2016 ‘Exploding Kittens’ card game breaks Kickstarter record Even in an era of state-of-the-art video games, there’s still huge interest in quirky card games, as evidenced by the success of “Exploding Kittens.” A crowd funding phenomenon, the card game has broken the record for most backers on Kickstarter.
Video Games May 3, 2016 Can mobile gamers improve airport security? Could playing a video game on your smartphone improve airport security? The creators of the mobile game “Airport Scanner” are helping Duke University researchers crowdsource vast amounts of data on how the human brain finds (and misses) key items during searches.
Video Games May 3, 2016 Man dies after 3-day video gaming binge A video gamer in Taiwan has died after a 3-day gaming binge, the country’s second “sudden death” involving an Internet café customer this year.
Video Games May 3, 2016 5 things Minecraft teaches kids (plus one bad thing, too) The popular build-and-survive video game Minecraft could very well be the most surprising tech success of this decade. Created in 2009 by programmer Markus "Notch" Persson, expanded by a small team, and advertised mostly by word of mouth, it now has more than 100 million users. To drive home its success, Microsoft bought the game a few months ago for a staggering $2.5 billion.
Republicans May 2, 2016 Rand Paul campaign releases ‘selfie’ app -- Twitter erupts Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul’s 2016 campaign released a new app for smartphones this week, giving fans the the opportunity to shoot down other campaign logos in a video game and to take a virtual selfie with him – a function that quickly sparked mischief on social media.
Video Games April 27, 2016 Nintendo NX launching March 2017, new mobile games on way Nintendo's new console is less than a year away.
Video Games April 22, 2016 VR to hit big in 2016, mostly in games IDC says video games will "clearly be the lead rationale" for folks to pick up a VR headset this year.