In general, Meta frames many of its recent moves as a pivot away from first-party development of VR experiences to a focus on a third-party developer ecosystem, with stats like “86% of the effective ...

Horizon Worlds is now going to be a platform that’s ‘almost exclusively mobile.’ ...

Meta's Horizon Worlds pivots to mobile focus, scaling back VR efforts. This strategic shift positions it against platforms ...

Playground is changing things up for this reboot completely. Playground Games has finally opened the floodgates on the finer details of their Fable reboot. We now know that it is coming this Autumn to ...

Just over four years after Facebook changed its name to Meta, the company is scaling back its virtual reality ambitions. Meta is cutting about 10% of staff who focus on metaverse-related VR projects ...

Meta Platforms Inc. is beginning to cut more than 1,000 jobs from the company’s Reality Labs division, part of a plan to redirect resources from virtual reality and metaverse products toward AI ...

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MXenes are a class of two-dimensional materials with remarkable industrial potential. Pronounced like the name “Maxine,” they were first identified just 14 years ago. But their use so far has been ...

I find Prologue, the new survival game from PlayerUnknown Productions, a fascinating project. It takes survival gameplay back to basics, yet hosts it in millions of huge, life-like maps created with ...

Perhaps you’ve seen people with box-like devices covering their eyes like they’re wearing a 1960s Viewmaster. And maybe you’ve wondered what, exactly, they are doing with these contraptions. Well, ...

Playables Builder uses Gemini 3 to turn short text, image, or video prompts into bite-sized games. Creators can generate playable experiences in minutes by simply describing their game idea. The tool ...