Google’s Project Stream makes ‘Assassin’s Creed’ playable in Chrome

Project Stream promises to deliver the holy grail to video game fans around the globe — the ability to play the latest AAA games on any laptop or PC via a stable, no-lag streaming service. Google is preparing to publicly test Project Stream with a “limited number of participants” on October 5th, letting them play […]

Facebook’s ‘playable ads’ bring game demos to the news feed

Facebook’s next foray into the gaming space is giving players a chance to try mobile games out before they download them. The social network is calling them “Playable Ads,” which is fairly self-explanatory. There’s a lot of advertising mumbo-jumbo in Facebook’s announcement, but the key takeaway is that you’ll be able to play a brief […]

Sonic Mania Plus makes two of the franchise’s most obscure characters playable again

Have you heard of SegaSonic the Hedgehog? Unless you’re a huge Sonic fan, you probably haven’t. It was a 1993 arcade game that only came out in Japan. It had three players using trackballs to control Sonic and two new characters, Mighty the Armadillo and Ray the Flying Squirrel. But thanks to Sonic Mania Plus, […]

The Night Ripper Is A Playable Take On 80’s Horror Movies

The Night Ripper will have players walking the streets alone after work, dealing with the frightening presence of a masked killer who will make for a terrifying journey home. The Night Ripper follows Rachel, a young woman who is just trying to get home after her shift. The police have cordoned off a part of […]

Legendarily boring ‘Desert Bus’ is playable in VR

Back in the late 90s, comedic magicians Penn Jillette and Teller made a mini-game collection for Sega CD that was never released and quietly forgotten. Unfortunately for anyone with taste, one of those was the intentionally awful Desert Bus, which Internet sketch group LoadingReadyRun unearthed during a charity stream in 2007. They turned it into […]

The what, how, and why of playable ads

SPONSORED: Presented by IronSource In 2013, the global ad blocking craze pushed the ad industry to rethink its strategies — users were fed up with intrusive, irrelevant, and boring ads. In response, we slowly saw mobile ads shift towards ad formats and creatives that both took advantage of the mobile medium, and also created a […]

‘Smite’ adds Bob Ross as a paint-throwing playable character

Bob Ross is about to do battle with the gods. The Joy of Painting host, known for his soft voice, permed afro and “happy little trees,” is coming to Hi-Rez Studios’ mythology-themed MOBA Smite later this month as a character skin for Sylvanus. Although The Joy of Painting aired in the ’80s and early ’90s, […]

JustAd launches Game Zone playable ad platform

JustAd is launching its fully customizable “playable ad” Game Zone platform for mobile game developers and publishers. With such ads, players can tap on a mobile ad, and it will take the player directly into playing a version of the game. While others have launched other playable ad platforms, Tel Aviv, Israel-based JustAd contends that […]