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Jimmy Fallon might shake like a leaf as he holds the Nintendo Switch on The Tonight Show, but games are never going to get the bulk of the attention on a network-television talk show. But we don’t need that, because we’re getting The Foo Show. That’s a new interactive media program that plans to take you inside...

Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, we review The Last Guardian, look at Japan’s arcade industry, and PewDiePie is threatening to delete his giant YouTube channel. Enjoy, and have a great weekend! Opinions and pieces of flair The DeanBeat: Epic graphics guru Tim Sweeney foretells how we can create the open Metaverse What PewDiePie’s...

Tim Sweeney stitched together an interesting vision of the future in a talk this week at the VRX virtual reality conference in San Francisco. He wants to build the Metaverse, the virtual world envisioned by Neal Stephenson in the novel Snow Crash in 1992. That novel’s vision of a pervasive cyberspace where we live, work, and...

Osmo has made its mark with award-winning augmented reality iPad games for children, and now it is teaming up with some big kids brands and announcing it has raised $24 million in a new round of funding. It’s a big validation for a new kind of game and toy company that grew up in Silicon...

Google today is showing off seven new apps that can be used with its Daydream high-end mobile virtual reality (VR) system for devices that work with Daydream, including Google’s Pixel smartphones and Lenovo’s Moto Z and Moto Z Force phones. After taking the Daydream for a spin last month, I walked away feeling impressed with...

HTC has one of the flagship virtual reality headsets with the HTC Vive, and now it is creating first-party content for that platform. The Taiwanese company is announcing today that its Vive Studios division is launching Arcade Saga, a title developed internally by its 2 Bears Studios. Arcade Saga is a collection of three games...

GUEST: Name your fear. A sense of dread strikes you at the thought of having to hop onto a crowded train. You squirm as the doctor approaches you with a needle. You tremble and tuck your head between your legs as the plane warms up its engine. You freeze as your secret crush walks past...

HTC is all-in on the Vive virtual reality headset, and it is investing heavily in the companies that it is shepherding through its Vive X accelerator locations in San Francisco, Taipei, Shenzhen, and Beijing. Cher Wang, cofounder and chairperson of HTC, showed that commitment to VR at an event today, where the company showed off...