So you’re thinking about starting your own video game blog? Lucky for you, we’ve been in your shoes and have some advice to set you up for success! Now that we’ve made the list of top 200 sites for video game news, I figured it was time to break down exactly how we got here. This […]
Video gaming is an extremely popular leisure-time activity with more than two billion users worldwide (Newzoo, 2017). However, the media as well as professionals have underscored the potential dangers of excessive video gaming. With the present research, we aimed to shed light on the relation between video gaming and gamers’ psychological functioning. Questionnaires on personality […]
Facebook on Thursday unveiled technology for “workrooms,” allowing remote collaboration for people using its Oculus virtual reality gear. The “Horizon Workrooms” project allows users to switch back and forth from virtual reality to web conferencing to adapt to different situations. “Workrooms is our flagship collaboration experience that lets people come together to work in the […]
Founded in 2018, Mod.io is a gaming service that aims to make user-generated content (UGC) more accessible to game developers across platforms and stores. It provides a clientless API so developers can easily create and share content and modifications (or mods). The service currently supports games with a C++ software development kit and native plugins […]
One might think the Chinese company BBK had its hands full managing all its multiple brands and sub-companies. But no, it’s adding yet another, called iQOO, pronounced ‘eye-koo’ which stands for ‘I quest on and on’. Oh dear. iQOO comes from Vivo, specifically, and it’s interesting that its company-cousin, the Realme X50 Pro, is launched […]
On January 30, the Bigben Group announced its plan to put all its gaming activities under the Nacon banner and take the subsidiary public. Nacon was an already established brand in gaming, known for its peripherals such as the Revolution line of controllers. Bigben’s strategy behind this move is to make it a leader in the double-A gaming. These […]
CNN headline: “Why console gaming is dying.” It’s no surprise that it’s relatively easy to find an article suggesting that cloud gaming is the future of video games. What might be surprising is that the article I mentioned above is from 2012. The worry about console gaming’s decline then was connected to the popularity of […]
As the year 2019 came to close, the Gaming Industry as a whole commanded a very comfortable year-on-year revenue growth of close to 10%. Outliner of this exponential growth of the Gaming Industry was non-other than the Mobile Segment. Mobile Gaming saw revenue growth of more than 10% over the previous year 2018. According to research by […]
Characters are the backbone of games. After an overabundance of consoles and excess of terrible titles brought most of the industry to the brink of collapse in ’83, it rose from the ashes with the introduction of the Nintendo Entertainment System and protagonists like the now iconic Mario. Super Mario Bros. designers Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka created […]
2019 has seen a host of gaming laptops come out at various price points. At India Today Tech, I have lived with the fanciest gaming laptops for weeks costing almost as much as a small car, and with the latest entry-level gaming laptops that offer just enough firepower to run the latest bunch of games. […]