FEB. 22, 2016 • A month after the Oculus Rift began pre-orders at $599, HTC Corp.'s Vive entered preorder contention at $799. Similarly, the Rift ships in March with the...

[caption id="attachment_15010" align="alignleft" width="380"] A diagram from Microsoft's modular PC patent application.[/caption] FEB. 16, 2016 • Last July, Microsoft Corp. filed for a U.S. patent on a modular PC design...

[caption id="attachment_14999" align="alignleft" width="390"] Lumberyard's scripting tool.[/caption] FEB. 10, 2016 • Amazon.com is entering the highly competitive AAA game engine business.  The Amazon Game Engine business will have two new...

FEB. 3, 2016 • Last December, Nintendo Co. Ltd. launched a new online account service in Japan intended to link experience from all of the gamemaker's content. Rather simply dubbed,...

FEB. 1, 2016 • Later this year, Chinese publisher Perfect World Ent. Inc. will publish its first pay-to-play title, Livelock, from Tuque Games in Montreal, Canada. The top-down shooter is...

[caption id="attachment_14974" align="alignleft" width="390"] Andrew House will head Sony Interactive Ent. as president and global CEO.[/caption] JAN. 26, 2016 • As of April 1, Sony Computer Ent. Inc. and Sony...

[caption id="attachment_14956" align="alignleft" width="390"] DFC Intelligence – Click to enlarge[/caption] JAN. 25, 2016 • On January 5, Sony Computer Ent Inc. (SCEI) announced that cumulative PlayStation 4 hardware sales reached 35.9...

JAN. 18, 2016 • Both Amazon.com, Inc. and Electronic Arts Inc. have put in place new discount plans on game title sales. Subscribers to the $99 annual Amazon Prime program...