Technology company Leap Motion has launched what it claims to be the world's most accurate motion control device. The company says its Leap is 200 times more accurate than anything else on the market "at any price point" and isn't just "a game system that roughly maps your hand movements". More >
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PopCap's Giordano Contestabile dares to dream of the possibilities in what will be one of the defining trends of the next few years.
There are plenty of smartphone games that make great use of touchscreen controls on the App Store, but it's the games that limit themselves to one or two inputs that work best. While the bane of unresponsive, ill-fitting virtual controls layered over anything more complicated will likely be with us for some time yet, two Carnegie Mellon University researchers might have part of the answer in shear touch technology. More >
Valve has revealed that it’s conducting research and development into “wearable computing”, which the company likens to “Terminator vision”. More >
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Capcom on the challenge of making a series famous for its 40-button controller work with Kinect.
We dance with death in our post mortem of LucasArts' classic adventure.
3Autodesk has announced a licence agreement with Nintendo that will enable developers of Wii U games to use its Gameware technology. Announced at GDC in San Francisco, the deal gives Nintendo and its licensed developers access to popular UI solution Autodesk Scaleform, the Autodesk Kynapse AI middleware, and Autodesk HumanIK, used for interactive character animation. More >
The first of our daily reports from GDC 12 in San Francisco.
"We've lost that joy, the joy of discovery, of not knowing how something works."
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Are all clones really equal? Graham McAllister examines the differences in player experience between Yeti Town and Triple Town.
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From cellophane to opening cutscene, it's as if Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning doesn't seem to care about you playing it.
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The Double Fine founder tells us why working with young children and hot lava results in fertile creative ground.
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Accessibility charity SpecialEffect explains how it helps players with disabilities to enjoy games.
Find your future working on Devil May Cry at Ninja Theory, in Malmö with Massive or building Crytek's user interfaces.
360 has finally become a media box as well as a games console - a full report on Microsoft's third dashboard refresh.
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Wii U has the potential to shake up the social gaming experience, says Graham McAllister.
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Nick Adams on why using full-body tracking prevented the studio from remaining true to Puss In Boots' flair.
Middleware firms Havok and Autodesk have announced a partnership that will mean Havok's Vision Engine offers full integration of Autodesk's Scaleform and Beast technology. The news means the Vision Engine will sport a new UI and support for global illumination, a form of realtime lighting which Square Enix worldwide technology director Julien Merceron told us in August was one of the main graphical improvements still to come on the current generation of consoles. More >
With its first DLC and Spec 2.0 update now live, we examine how the real racing simulator has evolved since launch.
A new Sony patent reveals that the company is investigating the potential of biometric controls. The patent filing, spotted by Siliconera, covers a device which measures galvanic skin resistance, electrocardio data, and electromuscular data - sweat, heart rate, and muscle movements - with technical drawings showing a Dualshock, Move controller, and a Vita-like handheld. More >
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