Minecraft Realms makes cross-platform play on Windows, iOS, Android, and VR a reality

Minecraft Realms went live today, so you and your friends can build together regardless of what device you're running the game on. Except for consoles. | Continue reading


@androidauthority.com | 8 years ago

Why Apple wants to be the smart home’s nerve center

On Monday, Apple announced that it would make an app called Home available to users soon, allowing them to connect and control all of their HomeKit-enabled smart home devices from their iPads, iPhones or even watches. Per an earlier TechCrunch report live from the event, the Home … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

Orlando Gun Store Owner Speaks Out

Edward Henson, owner of St. Lucie Shooting Center where the alleged Orlando gunman Omar Mateen bought firearms, describes the background checks needed to purchase guns there. | Continue reading


@live.wsj.com | 8 years ago

Ubisoft reveals new extreme winter sports game Steep

Ubisoft has revealed a new snowboarding game called Steep.Amusingly, the trailer and gameplay walkthrough were released ahead of the game's press conference reveal. Oops! So here's the early scoop:Set partially in the Alps, Steep contains a mix of snowboarding, skiing, and glidin … | Continue reading


@eurogamer.net | 8 years ago

'Cthulhu Realms' Deckbuilding Game from Designer of 'Star Realms' Now on App Store

White Wizard Games, the fine folks behind the popular Star Realms [Free], have just released their latest deckbuilding game onto the App Store, and it will drive you to madness. Cthulhu Realms [Free] is a fast-paced deckbuilding game from Darwin Kastle, designer of Star Realms. Y … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 8 years ago

Assassin’s Creed film is all about remaining true to its fans

Ubisoft is betting that its first foray into movies, Assassin’s Creed, will be a big hit when it debuts this winter. After all, it’s a big year for game-based movies. We’ve seen the debut of The Angry Birds Movie (which has generated $312 million worldwide, according to Box Offic … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

Steep takes a daredevil approach to winter sports

Ubisoft is launching a new extreme winter sports game dubbed Steep. It combines the majesty of gigantic mountains in the Alps and extreme sports such as paragliding and wingsuit acrobatics. Igor Manceau, the creative director at Ubisoft’s studio in Annecy, France, said the game h … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

Ubisoft’s Just Dance 2017 will be a Nintendo NX title

Ubisoft is one of the first companies to announce a title for the upcoming Nintendo NX game console, which launches in 2017. The French game publisher’s Just Dance 2017 will ship on a variety of platforms, including the NX, said Xavier Poix, managing director of Ubisoft France, d … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

Apple’s latest foray into the enterprise involves deeper integration with Cisco

Lost in the hubbub of today’s two hour-plus Apple WWDC keynote was an announcement of deep integration between Apple and Cisco in the upcoming release of iOS 10 — yes, you read it correctly, Cisco. When it comes to enterprise partnerships, IBM has gotten the lion’s share of the a … | Continue reading


@techcrunch.com | 8 years ago

Microsoft's E3 2016 press conference in 8 minutes

Microsoft crammed a ton into its lengthy E3 press conference — New hardware! Specialty controllers! More Forza! More Dead Rising! More Gears of War!Of course, many of you don't have time to watch the entire press conference, which also contains its fair share of executive preenin … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Surprise: Trials of the Blood Dragon is out now

Trials meets Blood Dragon in Trials of the Blood Dragon, a new Ubisoft title merging RedLynx's vehicular challenge series with Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon. Even more surprising: it's out in just a few minutes when the Ubisoft E3 press conference ends.It will be available on PS4, Xbox … | Continue reading


@eurogamer.net | 8 years ago

Trials of the Blood Dragon combines motorcycles and ’80s kitsch and is out now

Welcome to the future … well, a 1980s and 1990s laser-disc sci-fi future. Ubisoft’s incredible motorcycle platforming series is back with a new entry that combines it with the Blood Dragon spin off of Far Cry. Trials of the Blood Dragon, which Ubisoft announced at its media brief … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

Grow Home's sequel Grow Up lands in August

Ubisoft Reflection's glorious robotic platformer Grow Home is getting a sequel. Grow Up will be out in August for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.The sequel sees robotic hero BUD leaving the watchful eye of MOM behind as he explores a whole world of platforming pleasures. To go al … | Continue reading


@eurogamer.net | 8 years ago

Everything Apple announced at WWDC 2016

Apple kicked off its annual developer conference today in San Francisco on a sour note, as CEO Tim Cook asked attendants to stand up in silence to commemorate the shooting victims in Orlando. Then, the company launched into a two-hour keynote detailing the changes coming to iOS, … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

For Honor shows off its groin-chopping single-player

For Honor made an appearance during Ubisoft’s Electronic Entertainment Expo event today in Los Angeles. Last year, For Honor’s demo at Ubisoft’s E3 focused on multiplayer. This year, Ubisoft showed off the campaign. It focuses on third-person hand-to-hand combat inspired by medie … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

Watch LeVar Burton and other Star Trek alumni play Ubisoft's VR Star Trek game

A few days ago, word surfaced that Ubisoft's Red Storm division was making a virtual reality game based on Star Trek. Today, we got our first official look at the team-based space flight game, called Star Trek: Bridge Crew. Bridge Crew is supposed to be coming later this year to … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Watch 10 minutes of For Honor's brutal single-player campaign

Last E3, Ubisoft promoted the multiplayer mode for For Honor, a twist on the fighting genre that brought warriors from history onto the same battlefield. This E3, Ubisoft Creative Director Jason Vandenberghe introduced the single-player campaign, which appears to tell different s … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Apple TV Games Can Finally Require the Use of Game Controllers

One of the tricky issues that arrived with the Apple TV reveal last year was that Apple suddenly required developers to use the Siri Remote for games, instead of allowing for games to require controllers. This led to ridiculous circumstances where games had to finagle together a … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 8 years ago

Warcraft's record-breaking opening in China may be the future of Hollywood blockbusters

This past weekend Duncan Jones’ Warcraft opened in the US, and with The Conjuring 2 beating it out for the top spot, it's fair to say that the film didn't do as well as everyone had hoped. The movie grossed just over $24 million in the United States, and for a film that’s reporte … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Apple made a Home app because HomeKit products are finally real

Apple jumped into the smart home world with the announcement of its HomeKit platform two years ago. But until today, it's felt like one huge piece of that platform was missing: a way to control it.While it felt like a strange omission, Apple's decision to delay the launch of a Ho … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

PwC to Investigate Blockchain's Potential in Wholesale Insurance

PwC is sponsoring new research into the blockchain's potential in the insurance industry, as well as the creation of a proof-of-concept prototype. | Continue reading


@CoinDesk | 8 years ago

For Honor gets Valentine's Day release date and a campaign

Ubisoft's chunky sword-and-axe fighting game For Honor has been given a Valentine's Day - 14th February 2017 - release date. It's coming out on PC, PS4 and Xbox One.A year ago this game was multiplayer only but now there's a campaign, which you can play alone or in co-op. You're … | Continue reading


@eurogamer.net | 8 years ago

Apple releases Xcode 8 with editor extensions in beta

Hidden in a slide during Apple’s WWDC developer conference keynote today was a reference to “Xcode editor extensions.” The presentation style of this information suggests that this is a minor update. But in fact, it’s a major addition to Xcode, Apple’s integrated development envi … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

South Park The Fractured But Whole out this December - here's gameplay

Ubisoft has shown off gameplay for South Park The Fractured But Whole, the follow-up to The Stick of Truth.We see character creation. You play a kid who's trying to get into Cartman's superhero group. You pick a class, then Cartman assigns you a backstory. Here's the official blu … | Continue reading


@eurogamer.net | 8 years ago

Apple opens up

There was a wealth of new tools and tricks on offer from Apple during today's Worldwide Developer Conference. But the biggest news was that Apple decided to open up a number of core services — Maps, Siri, and iMessage — that for a long time have been closed off. Given its massive … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

The 13 biggest announcements from Apple WWDC 2016

Apple’s WWDC this year was full of incremental updates to OS’s for the Mac, iPhone, Watch, and TV, as well as moves to open up services like Siri and iMessage to developers. A lot of the changes were geared toward moving between Apple devices easier — Siri is now on desktop, and … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Oculus promises 30 VR games for its Touch controllers

Your hands are about to joing you in Oculus’s virtual worlds. The Oculus Rift VR headset’s Touch controllers are launching later this year, and now the Facebook subsidiary is running down some of the games you can expect. The company is promising 30 games will work for the Touch, … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

YouTube SEO: The Ultimate Guide for Ranking Videos on YouTube and Google

Note: This is a YouTube SEO guide I originally wrote and posted on the LocalVox blog here.  When you hear the words “search engine optimization,” you likely think of Google. This makes sense, as Google is clearly the alpha dog when it comes to search engines, holding 63.8% of the … | Continue reading


@alltop | 8 years ago

Apple unleashes Swift Playgrounds to help new developers learn to code

Apple ended the 2016 WWDC with an inspiring boost directed toward those looking to becoming coders by introducing Swift Playgrounds, a free tool designed to make it easier for people to learn code using Apple's Swift developer language.SEE ALSO: Live from Apple's WWDC 2016 keynot … | Continue reading


@mashable.com | 8 years ago

Watch this cheeky trailer for South Park: The Fractured But Whole

Ubisoft revealed details about South Park: The Fracture But Whole at their E3 2016 press event. The sequel to South Park: The Stick of Truth shifts genres from a parody of fantasy games to a send-up of superhero culture and Marvel’s elaborate movie franchise business.South Park: … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Ubisoft unveils Survival expansion for Tom Clancy’s The Division

Ubisoft unveiled a new expansion for Tom Clancy’s The Division, dubbed Survival. Ubisoft made the announcement at its press event at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the big game trade show in Los Angeles this week. The game showed a single character, the survivor of a hel … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

The Division's major Survival expansion teased

The Division's second big expansion, Survival, sees players take to a new blizzard-filled environment. The enemies are tougher, the environment is harsher, but you must persevere for the sake of a possible cure for the game's pandemic.Details are thin on the ground, but it will b … | Continue reading


@eurogamer.net | 8 years ago

The Internet Loves Cats: And Then It Went Viral (Podcast)

On Episode 6 of And Then it Went Viral, we talk to Matt Siltala the Founder of Avalaunch Media. We discuss their Social Meowdia infographic that has led to hundreds of … | Continue reading


@copypress.com | 8 years ago

Killing Floor: Incursion updates the light gun game for virtual reality

Virtual reality headsets promised wild new gaming experiences, but they're also resurrecting older genres — first space simulators, and now, light gun games. Killing Floor: Incursion is the latest of these, a game designed for the Oculus Rift that uses its yet-to-be-released Touc … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

3 Reasons Why Our Free-Trial Process Was Hurting Us

3 Reasons Why Our Free-Trial Process Was Hurting Us | Continue reading


@blog.atomicreach.com | 8 years ago

South Park: The Fractured But Whole looks like a hilarious superhero parody

Ubisoft showed more of South Park: The Fractured But Whole during its Electronic Entertainment Expo event today in Los Angeles. The Fractured But Whole is based on the South Park characters’ superhero alter egos. It is similar to 2014’s The Stick of Truth, which featured Cartman … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

Oculus Touch still has no release date, but promises over 30 games at launch

Oculus still hasn't told us when its Touch motion controllers might ship, but it's saying that over 30 full virtual reality games will have support for Touch at launch — and that we'll know the full lineup and release details this fall. This suggests that the controllers will be … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Circle Loves Regulations, Others Not So Much!

What happens to be the whole ecosystem’s pain point can be the pleasure center for few. At least that’s the impression Bitcoin Industry has of Circle, the payments company which started off as just another Bitcoin product. Circle has recently called for broader regulations for th … | Continue reading


@newsbtc.com | 8 years ago

Ubisoft is making a Star Trek VR game

Ubisoft is making an intriguing co-op VR game, based on JJ Abrams' Star Trek film series, and coming to Oculus Rift, Vive and PlayStation VR. It's called Star Trek: Bridge Crew.ABC News revealed the game ahead of its debut at Ubisoft's E3 press conference, having been privy to a … | Continue reading


@eurogamer.net | 8 years ago

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands coming to PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on March 7

Players will be jumping into Ghost Recon’s open-world mayhem next year. During Ubisoft’s press briefing at the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo trade show, the French publisher announced that Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Wildlands is coming March 7, 2017 for PlayStation 4, Xbox … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

Instagram competitor Storehouse is shutting down

Storehouse, which was always a stylistic amalgam of VSCO and Instagram, is shutting down. In an email to users, Storehouse notes it will officially shutdown July 15. CEO Mark Kawano said that while he is proud of what was created, it never quite found its place: While I am proud … | Continue reading


@thenextweb.com | 8 years ago

Widespread delays are punishing gay men who want to give blood

Yesterday, in the hours following the largest mass shooting the US has ever seen, a number of news outlets, including The Verge, initially reported that the main blood bank network in Orlando, OneBlood, was taking donations from all gay and bisexual men. Had these reports been ac … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Watch 14 minutes of Ghost Recon Wildlands, coming March 2017

The first Tom Clancy game of E3 2016, Ubisoft today unveiled a new trailer for Ghost Recon Wildlands, which was originally announced last year. The game is an open-world shooter about taking on a rather large and extensive Bolivian drug cartel using only your wits, your helicopte … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago

Untapped Benefits of Media Monitoring for Competitive Intelligence

It should be obvious that knowledge about competitors is critical business information. Yet almost half the companies that collect competitive intelligence are not using the data to make strategic decisions, according to a recent survey by the Harvard Business Review. The Academy … | Continue reading


@alltop | 8 years ago

Mobcrush Will be a Part of ReplayKit Live in iOS 10

One of the curious mentions at the WWDC keynote was ReplayKit Live. Only mentioned in passing during the tvOS portion of the keynote, and given a brief display on screen as something that's in iOS 10 that Apple couldn't squeeze in to the keynote, the question remained: just what … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 8 years ago

Just Dance is coming to Nintendo NX and nearly everything else next year

Ubisoft is already promising third-party support for Nintendo’s next system. A new Just Dance is coming in 2017, and it’ll hit the Nintendo NX in addition to PC and other platforms. The publisher revealed the news at its media briefing before the Electronic Entertainment Expo tra … | Continue reading


@venturebeat.com | 8 years ago

Foursaken Media's 'Adventure Company' Action-RPG Launches Worldwide This Week

Foursaken Media's set to deliver their next game on mobile this week. Adventure Company, which soft launched earlier this year, is done with testing, and is set to release this week on Thursday, June 16th. It will be free-to-play, but hey, this is 2016, games are gonna be free-to … | Continue reading


@toucharcade.com | 8 years ago

Apple promises to deliver AI smarts without sacrificing your privacy

Artificial intelligence tools like deep learning have come on in leaps and bounds in recent years, powered by two main resources: cheap processing power, delivered by the cloud; and stacks and stacks of user data. For a company like Apple — which has banged the drum of user priva … | Continue reading


@theverge.com | 8 years ago