Delightful Canadian Adam Boyes, the man behind PlayStation's self-publishing indie game initiative for the past four years, is leaving Sony."After an incredible journey here at PlayStation, I've made the very hard decision to return to the world of game development!" Boyes stated … | Continue reading
As the Chinese economy has boomed in the last decade, millions of people have entered the middle class. And the Chinese aren’t just getting wealthier, they’re getting fitter. China, it seems, is in the midst of a workout craze — and that represents a once-in-a-lifetime opportunit … | Continue reading
Fruit Ninja is part of the classic casual iPhone game canon — your finger becomes a katana ready to slice through watermelons as fast as you can keep up. But in case you felt like that just wasn't immersive enough, Halfbrick Studios has now released a virtual reality version for … | Continue reading
Two weeks ago, we reported that Uber was in talks to raise $1-2 billion in leveraged loans. The Wall Street Journal is circulating new information that the company has closed a $1.15 billion leveraged loan, with a 5 percent yield. This number comes in on the low side of our previ … | Continue reading
Mark Zuckerberg believes Facebook Live could illuminate wrongdoing in the world. Facebook still hasn’t explained the details of its policy on censorship of Live video. But today in response to the police shooting of Philando Castile whose last moments of life were broadcast on Fa … | Continue reading
Bitcoin services startup Vogogo is closing its payment processing service next month after it failed to gain traction or generate money. | Continue reading
Discussions around diversity and inclusion in the tech industry are not going away. Not on my watch. Earlier today, I sat down with Erica Baker, an engineer at Slack, and Ellen Pao, formerly of Reddit, to talk about their non-profit organization for diversity, Project Include, as … | Continue reading
Hello, gentle readers, and welcome to the RPG Reload. This week, we're continuing our little monthly project looking at the history of handheld RPGs. That means that we will not be taking a look at a specific RPG from the App Store's past this time around. Last month, we looked a … | Continue reading
Fallout 4 streamer T Ronix has done the seemingly impossible: he's completed Bethesda's latest post-apocalyptic open-world adventure on Survival Mode without taking a single hit.And here we thought it was crazy when someone finished Fallout 3 without ever healing.T Ronix's except … | Continue reading
The prophets predicted that Titan Quest would arrive on Android by the end of 2015. Although some lost hope, today what was promised has arrived. | Continue reading
We're streaming live on Mobcrush right now. There's a couple different ways you can watch the stream, and they all work equally well and it's really just a matter of personal preference as to which method you prefer. The easiest way to watch is just watching the embedded player r … | Continue reading
Printers are ugly. Big time ugly. They also haven’t changed much over time. It’s not like we went from a cuddly soft printer to a more industrial one — they’ve always looked cold and unlovable. A man named Ludwig Rensch envisioned a new kind of printer that challenges old standar … | Continue reading
Facebook is facing new questions about its policies for live video after footage showing the aftermath of a police shooting in Minnesota was briefly removed.The video was recorded in the minutes immediately following the shooting of Philando Castile, who was killed by police duri … | Continue reading
After finding success on Kickstarter, ZUtA Labs is piecing together its mobile robotic printer. Small enough to fit into the palm of your hand, the four-inch wireless device makes it easy to produce images on the go. The printer rolls back and forth over a piece of paper, until … | Continue reading
For Amanda Kahlow and 6Sense, one of the most important aspects of the company is its culture. The values of the company have been baked into the operations of the team, how it interacts with itself and its customers. Kahlow says it boils down to family — an acronym for fun, acco … | Continue reading
In August of last year, developer HeavyBoat released an interesting take on the endless, one-hop-at-a-time Crossy Road-style gameplay with their game Winter Fugitives. In addition to progressing forward one square at a time and navigating the terrain, you also had to contend with … | Continue reading
Earlier this year, Phil Libin, the former CEO of Evernote who is now a venture capitalist at General Catalyst, laid out plans to fund and support (and maybe even build?) his own startups in the burgeoning world of bots — services that use conversational interfaces and varying deg … | Continue reading
Just one day after US Attorney General Loretta Lynch closed an investigation into Hillary Clinton's email practices without bringing criminal charges, the State Department says it is reopening a separate inquiry, accorded to The Associated Press. The internal investigation is onl … | Continue reading
BoJack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg knows a few things about self-aware animation featuring Will Arnett, and he'll be putting those skills to good use working on the sequel to The Lego Movie. Variety reports that Bob-Waksberg will be tackling a rewrite of the film, takin … | Continue reading
Have an app you'd like to save for later, but you'll be offline? Use this Android customization to save APK files for offline installation. | Continue reading
Folks interested in checking out the latest AR fad are in a bit of a tough spot right now. Pokemon Go [Free] servers have been on the fritz all day long. Players attempting to log in were met with a vague message stating that the servers were experiencing issues and to come back … | Continue reading
China already has the largest gaming market on the planet, but most of that is on PC and smartphones — especially since the country banned consoles for 15 years. Now, the television screen is about to get in on the action. By 2020, 21.5 million people in China will play games on … | Continue reading
Our blog articles feature the latest ideas and thinking from our Action and Research Centre and Fellowship staff and guest bloggers. You are welcome to contribute and comment. | Continue reading
The Tomb Raider reboot movie will come out on 16th March 2018.That's according to The Hollywood Reporter, that claimed Warner Bros. had initially reserved that date for a DC Comics film, possibly The Flash, but decided to offer the quiet Q1 timeslot to Tomb Raider instead.The upc … | Continue reading
Today we're taking a look at the best MetroPCS Android phones available! | Continue reading
Nextbit went on Periscope today to talk about their web client beta, but the detail that has snagged the internet's eye is what appears to be a red Robin. | Continue reading
If you’re going to show off the followup to your well-loved mirrorless camera two years after release, you might as well do it in style – classic cars, rail-thin models, terrible music, the whole nine yards. Fujifilm’s X-T2 interchangeable lens camera made its flashy Manhattan de … | Continue reading
[appicon]The Sorcery! series is easily one of the best gamebook series on the App Store, with the first one being a "vibrant piece of interactive fiction" (per our review) and the other two demonstrating continuous improvements. No wonder, then, that many are anxiously waiting fo … | Continue reading
Sandy Hook, Charlie Hebdo, San Bernardino, the Paris Attacks, Brussels, Istanbul. Virtually all of these terrorist attacks and mass shootings occurred in what are known as "soft target" locations: big spaces with multiple entries and exits, lots of people, and relatively little p … | Continue reading
Mimicking nature’s most elegant designs has become a popular method for creating equally elegant robots (close, anyway) — but using nature’s raw materials, too? That’s what researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute have done, creating a tiny light-controlled stingray with a solid g … | Continue reading
A new study by Square found that people who used Apple Pay and other types of NFC payments were more likely to tip than those who used a physical credit card. The findings come from a six week look at the Portland market and “thousands” of retailers using Square’s new card reader … | Continue reading
There’s no denying that there’s a common thread between CyanogenMod, Cyanogen OS, and Cyanogen, Inc., but the three are, in fact, different entities. | Continue reading
It's incredible how much storage now fits into a fingernail-sized microSD memory card.Last year, SanDisk crammed 200GB into a microSD card and now Samsung's gone and made a 256GB microSD with the world's fastest read and write speeds — even faster than SanDisk's own new 256GB mic … | Continue reading
The U.S. economy continues to add jobs, albeit at a slower rate in the past few months. Simply put, conditions have tightened as more people have found work and there are fewer openings in many employment sectors. | Continue reading
Earlier this year, Huawei took Samsung to court for alleged patent infringements. Barely two months later, the Chinese company is filing another suite. | Continue reading
If you’re Toronto-based startup MagniWare, you’ve learned some hard truths about the realities of what people will bear in terms of keeping tabs on their general wellness. MagniWare began life with a focus on hardware, looking to solve the problem of wearable fatigue by making a … | Continue reading
Auto manufacturers are realizing that the future of transportation is not going to be one person, one car. It’s going to be ride sharing, ride hailing, and public transit—and these vehicles may not even require drivers. So most major manufacturers have made a turn toward becoming … | Continue reading
Bitcoin remittance startup Freemit is officially closing down, two years after the effort to build the service began. | Continue reading
Remember those microSD cards we told you about a few days ago that can hold a ton of 4K video? They’re almost obsolete; Samsung just blew microSD all the way up by adding flash storage. You can get the cards in storage capacities of 32, 64, 128 or 256GB. “Our new 256GB UFS card w … | Continue reading
Campaign of the Week: Journey to the Hop Source: The Weather Channel Why we like it: It's stinking hot right now and the Weather.com execution with Goose Island is perfect timing. Hot weather and refreshing beverage. This piece goes into how weather impacts the production of hops … | Continue reading
I'm not sure what it was about PalmOS that was so awesome, but in a time before WiFi or cellular data it seemed like I lived on my PalmPilot. Hell, I feel like you could make a strong argument on the Palm V being one of the best PDA's ever made. I had my calendar, | Continue reading
Not a week goes by without some sort of development in the world regarding self-driving cars — the subject consistently finds a place in any given news cycle. But if you’re waiting for a self-driving car revolution, you better keep waiting. Sure, the technology is there, but ther … | Continue reading
John Romero made a name for himself in game development as one of the original creators of Wolfenstein, Doom, and Quake. He helped establish the first-person shooter genre in the 1990s, and those games are now a multibillion-dolllar market. And Romero is still involved. He recent … | Continue reading
You may have noticed whenever you hop into a Lyft, more times than not, the driver asks what you want to listen to. You, like us, might tend to say you don’t have a preference, even though you most definitely do because you don’t feel like racking your brain or going through your … | Continue reading
Beyoncé has published an impassioned plea on her website, asking her fans to contact legislators and representatives and express their anguish about police brutality. She makes reference to Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, two black men who have been shot and killed by police … | Continue reading
That 3…2…1 on a 24-second shot clock never looked better than this. On Thursday, the NBA announced that it has tabbed Tissot for a sleeker and more efficient shot clock, which will debut during Summer League action Friday, before being integrated into all 29 arenas for the tip-of … | Continue reading
The internet of things, and wearables in particular, may not be quite living up to the hype, but it turns out they may be just the thing for people suffering from Parkinson’s disease. A pair of engineering students from the University of Pennsylvania have started their own compan … | Continue reading