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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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. […]
BBC Studios have partnered with Budge Studios to launch the first-ever Bluey mobile app game, Bluey: Let’s Play which is available now from the Apple App Store, Google Play and Amazon Appstore, Bluey: Let’s Play is based on the Emmy and BAFTA Award-winning global TV show that follows Bluey, a loveable, inexhaustible, Blue Heeler dog, […]