The Dead Walk
The Walking Dead shuffle into real life with new location-based AR mobile title from Next Games
Launch date to be announced later this year
A New Reality
"Augmented reality is going to change the world": Tim Sweeney on the future of graphics in games
Epic Games founder talks photorealism and AR glasses
The New Hotness
HandyGames CEO Christopher Kassulke on chasing "the new hotness"
Why developers need to jump on the latest technology ASAP
Immersive Publishing
New VR and AR publisher Big Immersive launches
Company to published first and third-party games
Be The Builder
Supercell partners with Facebook on Clash of Clans AR experience to celebrate the games' five-year anniversary
Become the Builder, or just drop him in the world somewhere
Get Creative
Unreal Engine 4.17 goes live with experimental ARKit support
Also includes other new tools and enhancements
Ar Future
iPhone augmented reality camera details leak
Apple internal software update for HomePod goes public, reveals clues about iPhone’s AR future
Indie Mavens
What do indie developers think about Apple's ARKit?
Our Indie Mavens weigh in
Pokemon Go Fest
Niantic to unleash legendaries in Pokemon GO during special live-streamed real-world event on July 22nd
Players in Chicago will need to work together to take down a legendary
Reality Cash
Reality Gaming readies ‘initial coin offering’ to raise $1.5 million for new AR game
Set to launch on August 29th
Leaps And Bounds
Motion tracking developer Leap Motion secures $50 million series C funding round
Pushing into Asia and broadening the scope of its product
Ar Awakens
Disney's new augmented reality headset lets players wield their own lightsaber
Teams up with tech outfit Lenovo to produce new hardware
Ar Next
Next Games pushes into AR and location-based games with Lume Games acquisition
Also sees revenues up 52% to $22.6 million
Time To Experiment
Experimental games company Velan Studios secures $7 million series A funding round
Round led by Velan Ventures
Defining Reality
Magic Leap’s Chief Games Wizard on what defines mixed reality and the 'everyday adventure' killer app
Graeme Devine delves into design concepts for MR
Gotta Catch 'em All
One year on: How Pokemon GO has proved it’s more than just a fad
The right game at the right time
Show Don't Tell
The augmented reality-fueled future of mobile marketing will be narrative and personalised
Motive.io's Peter Wittig shares discusses how it aims to empower developers, markets and advertisers to bring immersive experiences to consumers
Unite Europe 2017 Lessons
Five things we learned at Unite Europe 2017
From a bigger focus on mobile to a push away from games altogether
Augmented History
Report: 70 laid off as augmented reality firm CastAR closes
A core group trying to sell tech
Ios Ar
Apple unveils augmented reality development framework ARKit for iOS devices
Only works on iPhone 6S and up
Selfie Time
Futurefly doubles down on augmented reality with Miso Happy app
Released on iOS and coming later this year to Android
The Battles Ahead
The mobile augmented reality platform war
Digi-Capital's Tim Merel offers his thoughts on the big players and what's to come
Augmented Leap
Magic Leap Chief Game Wizard Graeme Devine to deliver mixed reality Evolve keynote at Develop:Brighton
Twitch SVP will also host a session on lessons in streaming and selling games
Wanna Trade?
Toys-to-life developer PlayFusion partners with TOMY to launch Lightseekers physical TCG
Using AR-enabled cards that can be scanned into the mobile game
Go Play Outside
Niantic partners with Knight Foundation to foster communities in the real world
Play Pokemon GO and make some friends while you're at it
Going Meta
The democratisation of location-powered AR for developers and marketers is underway
Verve's Mark Ollila discusses augmented reality tech with GoMeta's Dmitry Shapiro
Eyes Everywhere
Over 190 million smartphones currently on the market are VR-compatible
Newzoo outlines how mobile VR mass adoption should happen
Leaps And Bounds
Magic Leap acquires FuzzyCube and hires staff from Moonbot Studios to bolster development
Moonbot Studios shut down shortly afterwards
Ar Go
Facebook plots augmented reality games platform for mobile
Already in closed beta, but a long road ahead
Big Ambitions
Unity set to triple Indian workforce as it eyes industries outside of games
Game engine firm sets sights on AR and VR domination
Vr Is Bad
Niantic's John Hanke thinks VR is a "problem for society" because it's too immersive
Says AR is the way forward, obviously
Lan-arrrrrrrrr
FX Networks launches AR-centric game Archer P.I. alongside next season of Archer TV show
Will run for two months alongside the cartoon
Educational Ar
Kingston University invests $66,000 in new educational AR and VR facility
Hoping to develop skills from students across multiple disciplines
Gdc Trends
5 key mobile trends from GDC 2017
VR, Eastern influence, engines and live ops - but are things really changing?
Unity Gdc Keynote
Unity's GDC keynote to show off new and unnanounced games alongside advancements in AR and VR
Streaming worldwide from 4:30pm GMT on February 28th
The State Of Vr
The state of virtual reality and augmented reality in 2016
Ella Romanos asks a panel of VR experts
Shared Vision
Facebook taps ex-Xiaomi VP to head up Oculus
Hugo Barra takes control of all VR and AR projects
South Korea Vr
YJM Games becomes first South Korea developer to invest in Venture Reality Fund
Hopes to expand further into AR and VR
Public Safety
Pokemon GO faces wall to China release over security concerns
Government evaluating risks presented by location and AR-based games
App Annie 2017
Gross mobile app spend will hit $166 billion and Pokemon GO won't have any clones in 2017
App Annie looks into its crystal ball
Riccitiello On Vr
Unity CEO John Riccitiello holds firm on belief that VR won't be mainstream until 2020
Also reveals himself as a BLT lover
F Is For Funding
Children's AR games dev Osmo raises $24 million funding round from Mattel and Sesame Street
Moving beyond the iPad
Finnish Learnings
3 things we learned at Slush about VR, mobile and social gaming
VR, mobile and social gaming all big at Europe’s biggest startup conference
Ar Treatment
Unity 5.5 opens HoloLens support and smooths out codeless IAP feature
Engine firm wokring on making it easier for developers to publish in China
Apple Ar
Apple exploring augmented reality glasses for possible 2018 launch
So claims sources "close to the matter"
Eat Sleep Develop
Augmented reality start-up CastAR swoops for Twisted Metal dev team Eat Sleep Play
Eat Sleep Play devs working with ex-Disney Infinity team
Back In The Saddle
Unity appoints VR pioneer Tony Parisi as new head of AR and VR Strategy
Reveal made at Unite LA 2016
Life Thru A Hololens
HoloLens pre-orders open in Australia, France, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand and UK
Prices starting at £2,719
Fund Seekers
Ex-RuneScape team wants to create a new generation of toys-to-life games with Lightseekers
UK studio heads to Kickstarter to take game into production
Investing For The Future
$2.3 billion has been invested in AR and VR over the last 12 months
$500 million in the last quarter alone