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The Voice Coach Battle game on Sandbox

The Sandbox, a decentralised gaming platform and a subsidiary of Animoca Brands, has announced its partnership with the Virtual Brand Group (VBG), a metaverse pioneer known for building immersive experiences, virtual commerce and digital fashion, and their collaborator ITV Studios, to launch The Voice Coach Battle, a Web3 gaming experience  based on ITV Studios’ The […]

May 10, 2024

Forecast: New tech could help travelling VR gaming

Vehicle passengers using VR headsets to pass the time during travel could be set to enjoy games which move at ‘ludicrous speed’ without experiencing motion sickness, researchers say. A team of human-computer interaction specialists from the UK and Canada have developed the first system to manage motion sickness in VR which also allows users to […]

April 24, 2024

ITV: The 1% Club biggest original game show in a decade

ITV has reported that The 1% Club has become the biggest game show on UK television over 2023 and to date with its current series averaging 5.8 million viewers in consolidated figures. The show’s ratings success also makes it ITV’s biggest original game show in a decade. Hosted by Lee Mack, the show, which last […]

April 16, 2024

Chaos announces Project Arena

Chaos unveils Project Arena, an upcoming toolset that offers studios a faster, simple alternative to game engines for virtual production. With Project Arena, artists can move V-Ray assets and animations to LED walls in around 10 mins, accessing production ray tracing with pipelines they know and trust. “Game engines helped kickstart a revolution, but many […]

April 5, 2024

Design your own MrBeast course in Stumble Guys

MrBeast is back in Stumble Guys for the final phase of the first-of-its-kind months-long collaboration, culminating in new MrBeast-themed in-game experiences. Stumblers can experience an all-new Disco Drop course and use a newly customised Stumble Workshop MrBeast Toolkit to create their own MrBeast courses. The Stumble Workshop MrBeast Toolkit includes beastly levels of creative collaboration, […]

January 29, 2024

Stumble Guys adds new Tetris-inspired course

Stumble Guys is adding another new way to play as the Tetrimino shapes from the world-famous Tetris game are used to create an all-new level mechanic in the frenetic and highly social party battle royale game. In addition to the new course, Tetris-themed cosmetics and flair will be rotating and fitting in perfectly throughout the […]

December 22, 2023

Sandbox launches Smurfs learning app

Sandbox Group, the London-based group operating a network of learning businesses, with IMPS – the worldwide licensor of The Smurfs – have launched a new educational kids app: The Smurfs – Educational Games. The new game celebrates the 65th anniversary of the classic cartoon. Now kids  can explore the Smurfs’ Village and play 10 different […]

November 27, 2023

Research: Human touch preferred in game design

The latest edition of Hub Entertainment Research’s Gaming 360 study shows that even as AI (artificial intelligence) becomes a more powerful tool in media, gamers are skeptical about using it in the creative elements of game design. Asked how they feel in general about the use of AI in creating video games, nearly half (47 […]

October 11, 2023

Survey: Hardcore games play for 80hrs per month

Researchers surveyed 2,000 Brits who consider themselves ‘hardcore gamers’ – and discovered the average console enthusiast spends 20 hours each week / 80 hours a month sitting in front of a screen. And because of their love of shoot ‘em ups and RPGs, dedicated gamers can often take as few as 8,700 paces a week, […]

September 28, 2023

Data: Twitch losing users

Although Twitch continues leading the global streaming audience with a 74 per cent market share in 2023, the community for gamers has again seen a significant drop in the number of streamers. According to data presented by Casinos en Ligne, the total number of Twitch streamers dropped by 450,000 year-over-year, reaching 7.59 million last month. […]

September 4, 2023