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‘Happy Goggles’ adopts Google Cardboard-like approach to entering virtual reality with a mobile
Read More »Chinese ad giant Mobvista pays $25m for US mobile firm NativeX
Monetisation specialist counts Square Enix, Disney, King, Rovio and Machine Zone among its partners
Read More »Hotline Miami dev Dennaton blesses fan spin-off for release
Midnight Animal is a heavily altered version of the original top-down neon-drenched shooter
Read More »DeltaDNA joins official PS4 tools and middleware line-up
Analytics and marketing platform is designed to allow devs to improve the monetisation of their free-to-play titles
Read More »Oculus hires Hulu and Flipboard exec as head of video
Eugene Wei will lead team dedicated to producing VR and 360-degree content
Read More »$3,000 HoloLens Development Edition launches in March
Next month will see developers finally get their hands on Microsoft’s augmented reality platform, HoloLens. An announcement accidentally posted ahead of embargo on Fortune (since pulled, viaReddit) revealed that the HoloLens Development Edition will open for pre-orders later today (February 29th) ahead of a March 30th release date. The kit …
Read More »Starbreeze profits slide as studio moves away from PayDay
2016 will see first fruits of developer's publishing arm and VR initiative hit its stride
Read More »Probe, Hotgen co-founder Fergus McGovern dies aged 50
Popular figure in the games industry and charity worker was awarded a Lifetime Achievement award in 1995 and Freedom of the City of London
Read More »Sony patents PlayStation VR motion-tracking glove
VR players may soon be able to have their real-life hand movements accurately recreated in game. A Sony patent is described at length in itsofficial paperworkas: Aglove interface objectcomprising at least one flex sensor configured to generate flex sensor data identifying a flex of at least one finger portion of …
Read More »Candy Labs heads form mobile studio Fracture Games
Brighton-based outlet comprises much of the team behind Mind Candy’s World of Warriors
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