On today's 'Daily Variety' podcast, Variety's Jennifer Maas explains how two top directors secretly helped Netflix craft the ...

Pokémon Showdown is the place to go if you love battling. It skips the hours of wandering around, catching, and training.

Escape from Tarkov is the original first-person extraction shooter. While previous games had modes that extraction shooter fans would now find familiar, there can be no argument that the unashamedly ...

Multimedia titan Paramount is getting into games in a big way, the company announced Friday alongside Summer Game Fest. A new games division, Paramount Games Studio, will now oversee all the company’s ...

Opening moments of games can often feel long and slow, and may even be boring as the game must teach you how to play it first thing. They’re a necessary evil, but there's a new high bar, as the new ...

007: First Light, the first Bond game in a decade and a half, blends infiltration and action worthy of the iconic spy. David Lumb is a managing editor for the mobile team, covering mobile and gaming ...

The anonymous artists responsible for satirical art installations aimed at the Trump administration on the National Mall — including a golden “throne” toilet and statues of President Donald Trump with ...

Dedicated rooms at home for board games, jigsaw puzzles and toys are making a comeback among the whimsical at heart. By Dina Cheney When the owners of a curiosity shop, Art of Play, renovated a condo ...

Microsoft plans to begin shipping early units of its next generation console, codenamed Project Helix, to game studios starting sometime next year. "We're sending alpha versions of Project Helix to ...

Making a video game usually means learning to code, working with complex game engines, and spending hours piecing everything together. That is true even for simple casual games. Many aspiring ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Unity is a versatile cross-platform game engine that has been around since 2005, supporting console, PC, and mobile. Some of the more notable ...