SAN FRANCISCO — Most of the room of game-industry insiders raised their hand after Spry Fox founder Daniel “Danc” Cook asked them if they own more than 10 games on the PC software portal Steam. Smiling, Danc told them “you don’t matter.” For years, mobile gaming has fended off th … | Continue reading
The scene opens to a children’s playground in a park. Two mothers are having a conversation on the bench as their kids run about. You can choose to stay focused on the women and listen to them talk, or investigate the playground to see where their children are playing. And you sh … | Continue reading
Google has finally embraced one of iOS’ most standard features: bottom-bar navigation. With a change to its Material Design guidelines, Google is now encouraging developers and designers to use navigation buttons on the bottom of the screen. Ahead of this change, all in-app navig … | Continue reading
Google today added a new section to its Transparency Report that focuses on the use of encryption on Google’s own sites and across the web. The company says over 75 percent of requests to its own servers are now using encrypted connections (though traffic to YouTube is not includ … | Continue reading
Last year Valve introduced paid mods on Steam when Bethesda allowed its fanbase to sell Skyrim mods. That experiment was short-lived, but Valve is having another crack at it, this time handling things itself through one of its first-party games, Dota 2.Soon Dota 2 players can pur … | Continue reading
Samsung is showcasing an app that writes music based on your hums, a collaborative social media app, and VR tech that convinces you you're flying. | Continue reading
Fossil is expanding its Android Wear smartwatch lineup today with two new models: the Q Wander and Q Marshal. The new watches follow the Q Founder that was released late last year and offer alternative designs to the Founder's heavy metal frame. They will be available later this … | Continue reading
Researchers have proposed a new kind of cryptocurrency that puts a central bank in control of the network but retains a transparent ledger. | Continue reading
AlphaGo just proved that artificial intelligence is advancing much faster than anyone predicted. But how did AlphaGo became so advanced? And what are the implications for all of us? | Continue reading
Chances are, you don’t have an iPhone 6s or 6s Plus. That means you don’t get to take advantage of 3D Touch, but a new GitHub repository named PeekPop could bring all the peeking and popping fun of 3D Touch to older devices. With Apple’s newest iPhones, a new screen assembly brou … | Continue reading
Traffic sucks? No conversions? Stuck in a rut? We’ve all been there. Marketing your business online is hard and requires a lot of upkeep to keep it running like a machine. If you aren’t getting the results you want, you are probably committing one or more of these things below. D … | Continue reading
I've spent the last few minutes staring at a black-and-white picture on an iPad. It's a picturesque, cartoony campground surrounded by picnic tables, a flower garden, and even some farmland. I'm looking for Mary. I know that she's a farmer, and that she is holding a trowel in one … | Continue reading
What if you could travel back in time and experience the last four minutes of a famous person’s life? Well, you can, if you’re willing to lock yourself in a morgue cabinet in the dark, listen and deeply inhale the air around you. That’s the only mildly-scary premise behind the Fa … | Continue reading
Last month, Google updated its search engine to quickly display information about the US presidential election, including delegate counts and the political stances of each presidential candidate. Now it's adding campaign finance information provided by the Center for Responsive P … | Continue reading
PikPok is no stranger to making crazy games, as they're the guys behind a ton of totally off the wall titles published by Adult Swim. Their latest game fits right in with what we've come to expect in that it's delightfully weird but incredibly well done. It's called Doomsday Clic … | Continue reading
Harrison Ford will return once again as Indiana Jones. Disney announced this morning that he'll star in a new movie, directed by Steven Spielberg, slated for release on July 19th, 2019.That's basically all of the detail we have so far. Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall, who wor … | Continue reading
Director Mike Flanagan introduced his second feature film, Hush, at the Alamo Drafthouse screening I attended this weekend saying, "this screening that you're seeing, here in this theater, is the best one so far." Aside from the noxious combination of the Drafthouse's pizza, beer … | Continue reading
One of the themes of this GDC seems to be meeting up with developers we saw last year who now have games which are way closer to release than we were when we saw them originally. Disco Party is one such example, and all we posted last year was a few screenshots, well, the puzzle … | Continue reading
Für die Community ist eigentlich gesetzt, dass das nächste Android-OS auf den Namen Nutella hören wird. Zumindest wünscht man sich das, erlebt die italienische Nussnougatcreme in den USA doch gerade so etwas wie einen groß... | Continue reading
Bitcoin mining has entered the African continent; the very first Bitcoin mining facility in the region is now in Ghana. Africa has always been a center of attraction for both Bitcoin and fintech-based businesses. The African continent has provided a lot of positive PR to the Bitc … | Continue reading
One of the surprises of GDC so far has been Rodeo Stampede, a game that combines voxel art and animal collection with a really fun core game of lassoing animals and hopping from beast to beast in a massive stampede. The core gameplay loop involves hopping on an animal, and launch … | Continue reading
David Lapter, formerly of Fab.com and MakeSpace, is moving on to Dashlane to serve as Chief Financial Officer. Dashlane is a password management service that helps users keep track of their passwords, as well as helping with safe online transactions through a Dashlane digital wal … | Continue reading
We’re excited to announce the launch of our first artificial intelligence-powered news bot on the encrypted messaging platform Telegram. We teamed up with Chatfuel to build the bot, and after a month of development we’re thrilled to show it off to the world. If you are already on … | Continue reading
The new Fitbit Blaze is a good Fitbit. Like earlier Fitbit models, the $200 Blaze will track your daily activity, count your steps, monitor your heart rate, gauge how well you're sleeping, and put all of that data into an excellent, easy-to-use app on your phone. It will show you … | Continue reading
Following their release of Thumb Drift [Free] just about a month ago, SMG Studio is getting back to their "One More" series of twitch games which so far include One More Line [Free] and One More Dash [Free]. The latest is called One More Jump, and interestingly it's not developed … | Continue reading
Ubisoft has announced Werewolves Within, a multiplayer VR game where you must deduce which one of your companions is actually a beast in disguise.Quick rounds will match between five and eight players together - one of which has been designated the werewolf. Other players will be … | Continue reading
As the primaries heat up in the race to see who will be in contention to become the next U.S. president, Google is now surfacing more information about the candidates directly in the main search results page. While Google already showed some details — like candidate statements on … | Continue reading
Here's an odd one: a Chinese mining company has bought Runescape developer Jagex for $300m.That's according to the Financial Times and DealStreetAsia, which reports Shandong Hongda Mining Co Ltd, a ferrous metal mining firm that produces iron powder, copper powder and iron ore, p … | Continue reading
This past week I made it my mission to see what was going on in downtown Manhattan. A well-timed email here, a hastily-caught train there, and I found myself at the headquarters of Priority Cycles — a NYC-based bicycle startup, which got its wheels on Kickstarter back in 2014. Ra … | Continue reading
VB WEBINAR: Content isn’t just about filling funnel — effective content should push your audience to action that shows concrete results. Join VB’s free webinar and panel of content pros to unlock the secret of creating content that inspires customers to action. Register here for … | Continue reading
The contact center is part of the customer relationship management process. Social media is completely upending the contact center process. | Continue reading
Google first introduced price estimates for Uber rides way back in 2014, and while it’s a useful option if you’re running late to a meeting, the lack of other services can be limiting That’s partly changing today, as the company is adding estimates for several more services: 99Ta … | Continue reading
Android apps are going to start looking a bit more like iOS apps in the near future. Google updated its Android design guidelines yesterday telling developers that, in some cases, they should place a bar across the bottom of their app that can be used to navigate between differen … | Continue reading
Bottom navigation has been added to Google's Material Design guidelines, meaning you'll soon begin seeing it beyond just Google+ and Google Photos. | Continue reading
Just in time for “Mega Tuesday,” Google has rolled out new features to Google Search that will allow you to better track the primaries and learn more about the candidates. One new addition provides easy-to-understand campaign finance information, so you can see things like which … | Continue reading
An ad here and there may not seem like a big deal when you can get an awesome application for $0, but a new study shows that this model is affecting our mobile experiences much more than we think. | Continue reading
What will your next iPhone behold? Though the release date is still TBD, there are already a lot of rumors about the possible features Apple might nix or improve in the iPhone 7Mashable Creative Producer Sam Sheffer, Senior Tech Correspondent Christian Warren and Chief Correspond … | Continue reading
Automotive brand Nissan has teamed up with Loughborough University to create an index that measures the excitement of football fans. | Continue reading
Unity Technologies showed off some game porn today at its press event at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. This means that it showed some really cool demos with eye-popping visual effects. The company says the demos show that the game engine that “democratized game … | Continue reading
Fans von Mangas und Comics kennen die Bilder, in denen ein Protagonist so schnell läuft, dass im Windzug die Röcke von japanischen Schulmädchen hoch fliegen. Und wie so oft stellt sich die Frage: Geht das in echt? Eine japanische TV... | Continue reading
Google reportedly is working on building its own Uber competitor, and while some believe that this will come in the form of a fleet of autonomous cars, there is a more immediate option for how Google can position itself more prominently in Uber’s world: by searching and aggregati … | Continue reading
References to NYC - New York Cheesecake - have surfaced in the AOSP repository. Of course that's just the internal codename. As for the final sweet treat? A new Opinion Rewards survey suggests Google may actually be polling users for their feedback. | Continue reading
Apple Music has partnered with Dubset Media Holdings to stream remixes, mash-ups, and DJ mixes that were previously unavailable due to copyright issues, according to a report from Billboard.For years, mixes and mash-ups have been kept off streaming services due to the complexitie … | Continue reading
Microsoft wants to show you that it can do cover shooting without Epic. Gears of War 4’s beta is coming April 18 for players who qualify for “early access,” according to Microsoft. This is a test of the first new release in the series for the Xbox One and Windows 10, and this ear … | Continue reading
User onboarding flows are key to retention, yet aren't given continuous attention. Here are 6 user onboarding flows and what you can learn from each. | Continue reading
Unity Technologies is announcing two new versions of its game development software at the Game Developers Conference today. The San Francisco company also said that it has a 30 percent share of the top 1,000 revenue generators among mobile games. Unity is trying to democratize ga … | Continue reading
Today, Google added a new section to its transparency report, giving users a running tally of how many Google requests use HTTPS encryption. Groups like EFF have long pushed for wider usage of HTTPS, but implementation can be demanding, particularly for services as complex as Goo … | Continue reading