10 Great JRPGs That Are Fun From the Start

The JRPG genre is notorious for having some of the biggest slogs to start its titles. So many JRPGs go with characters in a ...
Talker

Research finds playing virtual reality games can make you kinder

Playing virtual reality games can make you a kinder person, according to new research. They increase a player’s desire to ...
Shacknews

Little Nightmares VR: Altered Echoes goes on a terrifying train ride

Bandai Namco has strung together some unsettling tales with the Little Nightmares series. Its unique brand of non-gory, but ...
Gematsu

Little Nightmares VR: Altered Echoes launches April 24 for PS VR2, SteamVR, and Quest

Altered Echoes will launch for PlayStation VR2, SteamVR, and Quest on April 24, publisher Bandai Namco and developer Iconik announced.

Meta exec hopes VR teens will stick around

Lowpass newsletter. “It is a pretty rough time for the game industry.” Meta Reality Labs director of games Chris Pruett did not mince words when he returned to GDC for his annual talk on the state of ...

Apple Trains AI to Recognize Custom Hand Gesture Controls

Researchers at Apple have reportedly trained an AI model to learn and interpret human hand gestures using a zero-shot recognition method.
Road to VR

‘Evangelion’ VR Game Will Primarily Use Hand-tracking, Increasing Ease-of-use at Cost of Interaction Fidelity

At the Neon Genesis Evangelion 30th Anniversary event in Tokyo this weekend, Pixelity showed off its upcoming XR game EVANGELION: Δ CROSS REFLECTIONS, revealing it’s going all-in on hand-tracking. On ...
Digital Trends

Unity will soon let you create casual games using simple text prompts

Making a video game usually means learning to code, working with complex game engines, and spending hours piecing everything together. That is true even for simple casual games. Many aspiring ...
Kotaku

Unity Promises Deluge Of New Games Prompted Into Existence By AI As Its Stock Tanks

Game engine maker Unity is, like most other tech companies, fully embracing generative AI technology in its products (making the already bloated engine even more slow and annoying to use). Still ...
Polygon

Nioh 3's tutorial is the hardest part of the game

Nioh 3 is the first game in the series to adopt an open-world approach, where you can explore pretty much wherever you like. There are some constraints to that, as each subregion within the game's ...
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Essential tutorials every artist needs to draw hands

Hands are one of the hardest subjects to draw—but the right fundamentals make all the difference. These essential tutorials break down hand structure, proportions, finger movement, and gesture so ...
GeekWire

Meta layoffs hit Seattle-area VR studio Camouflaj, developer behind ‘Batman’ game

A series of layoffs across Meta’s virtual reality division has affected Bellevue, Wash.-based studio Camouflaj (Republique, Batman: Arkham Shadow). This week opened with reports that Meta had ...