Most CEOs of video game companies are either vilified, or ignored, but that wasn't the case with Nintendo's Satoru Iwata. Eight months after his death, the much-loved Iwata was remembered tonight at the GDC Awards in San Francisco, cast the star of a four-minute animated video dr … | Continue reading
Key Highlights Ethereum price completed a move higher during the past couple of sessions and moved down. There is a bearish trend line forming on the hourly chart (data feed via Kraken), which may act as a resistance in the near term. The price is also below the 100 hourly simple … | Continue reading
Waze is putting its traffic-predicting superpowers to good useThe Google-owned app is adding a new feature, called planned drives, which makes it easier to plan trips based on the traffic conditions you're likely to encounter. The update will also help automatically plan routes b … | Continue reading
Almost all internet users in South Korea watch digital video, and research indicates mobile is a major driver of their behavior. A majority of viewers watch only or mostly on mobile devices. | Continue reading
Most US internet users are willing to share their personal health information if it can help improve their personal healthcare. According to February 2016 research, almost half of respondents said they would be willing to do so, but only if it was anonymous. | Continue reading
Twitter has been focusing on efforts to attract more users to its service, but growth remains slow and the service is also still not materially monetizing logged-out users. | Continue reading
Mobile wallet and payment options are plentiful in the UK. However, consumers in the region still view the majority of them with a degree of caution. But while trust in mobile wallets is not necessarily improving, mobile payment options are being used all the same. | Continue reading
Intel is adding speech recognition features to its system-on-chips (SoC) via a partnership with Sensory. Any manufacturer using Intel’s Skylake, Anniedale, Broxton, Broadwell and Merrifield SoCs can get Sensory’s TrulyHandsfree speech recognition features. Sensory says TrulyHands … | Continue reading
After Optus stole the broadcast and digital rights to three seasons of the English Premier League from right under Fox Sports' nose last year, Australian fans were left bewildered as to how they would watch their favourite game in 2016.On Thursday, the telecommunications company … | Continue reading
If only it were so easy. Fill an arena with enthusiastic fans of the home team who nonetheless appreciate the value of a talented and lethal opponent, then pitch woo en masse in an orchestrated thundering chant. That does it every time, right? Wrong. Kevin Durant‘s reaction to Ce … | Continue reading
Nintendo's first iOS app, Miitomo, has finally launched in Japan, alongside Nintendo's new rewards program, My Nintendo. The two are, as expected, linked in a lot of ways. Playing Miitomo earns you points that you can exchange on My Nintendo for discounts on games, console themes … | Continue reading
The gaming industry has had an interesting 30 years. Many of the industry’s biggest names took the stage at the Game Developer’s conference in San Francisco today to look at how technology and trends have changed the industry. Chris Crawford started the first GDC, then known as t … | Continue reading
In this article you'll discover why Instagram should be a key platform to advertise to your customers, and how to execute your Instagram campaigns at scale. | Continue reading
Her Story, an interactive mystery by game developer Sam Barlow, won the top honor, the Seamus McNally grand prize, at the Independent Game Festival at the Game Developers Conference. The Independent Games Festival honors the games made by the underdogs of gaming, the independent … | Continue reading
Below, a stunning-looking indie title from Toronto-based studio Capybara Games, is set to release on Xbox One and PC this summer. Capybara has said in the past the game would make its way out some time in 2016, but today announced the more narrowed release window at the Game Deve … | Continue reading
If the latest rumors based on Droid-Life's sources are to be believed, US Cellular users will start seeing it on April 1st. And they swear this is not an April Fool's joke! | Continue reading
That Dragon, Cancer's behind the scenes documentary, Thank You For Playing, will be available digitally on 29th March.It will also be available in certain US theaters this Friday following a successful Kickstarter campaign. When asked about a UK theatrical release, the filmmakers … | Continue reading
Well, now I am just wondering how I've lived so long without a holographic butler. Thanks, Bentley.See also: Sorry, Tesla: The world’s fastest electric car is made in... Croatia?Ignoring my deep disappointment of living sans digital manservant aside, the concept actually makes so … | Continue reading
Trusted wants the providers of its on-demand babysitting service to feel like they’re welcome. The company announced today the launch of a tuition reimbursement program for employees, helping them save $5,250 each calendar year as long as they meet specific criteria. In order to … | Continue reading
Self-driving cars are going to change the landscape of mobility so much that not even their tires are going to be normal. That is, if Goodyear is to be believed.See also: Sorry, Tesla: The world’s fastest electric car is made in... Croatia?In the not-too-distant future, autonomou … | Continue reading
For many women who are victims of domestic violence, the technology they use everyday can become yet another medium of abuse.The ubiquity of mobile technology, in particular, can allow perpetrators to stalk women, as well as constantly contact and harass them, whether through tex … | Continue reading
Bitcoin Price Key Highlights Bitcoin price appears to be gaining upward momentum, as demand for the US dollar slumped after the FOMC statement. Price is now moving inside a rising wedge, with higher lows and slightly higher highs, indicating the possibility of a breakout. Technic … | Continue reading
Well, it's finally here. We've been speculating for years what Nintendo is going to do on mobile, and we now live in a world where there's a real Nintendo app on the App Store. Miitomo [Free] is currently available in Japan only, but its worldwide release will presumably follow r … | Continue reading
In its bid to raise its name in cloud computing services, Google nabbed a big-name customer: Apple. The iPhone-maker recently started storing portions of its iCloud and services data with Google’s cloud platform, according to sources familiar with the deal.It’s a win for Google, … | Continue reading
Razer is shipping a new $500 Razor Core 3D graphics add-on device in April which will enable gamers to turn laptops into PCs with desktop-level performance. The new devices makes it easier to become more mobile when it comes to playing games on high-end PC gaming hardware. If you … | Continue reading
The Core graphics enclosure was one of Razer's more interesting announcements at CES this year, and today the company is revealing pricing and availability for the device. Available for preorder from Razer today and shipping next month, the Core will cost $499 standalone or $399 … | Continue reading
Disney and Hipster Whale have teamed up to create a Disney Crossy Road mobile game. The new game was announced at a panel at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, and it shows the two companies are trying to figure out how to survive and thrive in the $30 billion mobil … | Continue reading
Apple ads have featured Aubrey Plaza, Jamie Foxx, and Killer Mike in recent months, but the company's latest iPhone commercial has enlisted the help of a real A-list celebrity — Cookie Monster. The Sesame Street star appears in a new ad that highlights the uses of Siri, in which … | Continue reading
SpoonRocket, the on-demand food delivery startup that shut down yesterday in the U.S., has a buyer. That buyer is Brazil-based iFood, a food delivery platform looking to dominate the on-demand economy in Latin America as well as other emerging economies. Terms of the deal were no … | Continue reading
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Tesla Motors is expanding to New York City — not with a flashy showroom in Manhattan, but with a brick-and-mortar sales and service center in Brooklyn.The new Tesla location opening Friday in Red Hook is not the kind of place where you can leave with the keys to your new Model S … | Continue reading
Chinese search giant Baidu is planning to test its autonomous cars in the United States, with a goal of building a "commercially viable" car by 2018, reports The Wall Street Journal. The firm announced last year that it was looking to develop vehicles that could serve as public s … | Continue reading
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Security company Palo Alto Networks has discovered new malware, dubbed “AceDeceiver,” that could attack factory-configured iPhones. iPhones with malware are rare due to their closed ecosystem and strong reliance on encryption, but today’s discovery was one of the first where none … | Continue reading
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The next major company to literally heed the esteemed Eli Hodapp's advice to "Just Make Crossy Road [appprice url="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/crossy-road-endless-arcade/id924373886?mt=8"], JEEZ!" is Disney. The House of Mouse is teaming up with Hipster Whale to make Disney C … | Continue reading
After the party is over, the lesser fun begins: thank you notes. Yes it's polite, but writing messages to every single person gets tiresome. Mass emails or pre-printed cards can get too generic and impersonal. SEE ALSO: 16 Digital Resources for Wedding Inspiration and PlanningFor … | Continue reading
The economic prospects for Latin America in 2016 are grim. With political instability in some of the region’s largest economies, as well as a general slump in prices in oil and other commodities, businesses and consumers are facing a depression and, in the case of Venezuela, econ … | Continue reading
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It's become sort of a tradition that we check out Celsius Game Studio's upcoming space trader Drifter at GDC. That's a polite way of saying this game has been in the works for a really long time, but to be fair it's an absolutely massive game and is entirely the work of one progr … | Continue reading
Rumors are flying today that Apple is moving part of its cloud business from AWS to Google’s Cloud Platform. We did some asking around and yes, it does appear that Apple has made some moves to diversify its iCloud storage, tapping Google for some of that business. This is another … | Continue reading
If I had to choose a sound to identify the second year of my daughter’s life it would probably be one of the collaborations between Sesame Street superstar Cookie Monster and one of the hot pop stars of the day. Though “Me want it (but me wait)” will never win any lyricist awards … | Continue reading
Hidden away on the exhibition floor at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco today, I found a short line next to the big booth for Amazon Lumberyard, that cross-platform 3D game engine that public cloud infrastructure provide Amazon Web Services (AWS) unveiled last mont … | Continue reading
Minecraft in all its blocky glory is setting up shop on mobile virtual reality on the Samsung Gear VR.I had a chance to demo the game at an Oculus media event during GDC in SF this week and there was a decent amount of hype surrounding the wildly popular game making its mobile VR … | Continue reading
We've been doing the same thing for years now, and we keep doing it because it's awesome. If you're in town for GDC or just live in SF, please come hang out with us as we slowly take over Bin 55 at 7:00 PM until around 11:00ish when they start doing last call. It's the | Continue reading
I’m too disorganized for real-time strategy. I’ve had my fill of fast-paced flight games. I’d don’t want to play another minigame collection ever again. But I’ve found that I love all of these games in virtual reality, and it’s not just about novelty. On Monday, Oculus VR held an … | Continue reading
Sowas passiert dann wahrscheinlich nur japanischen Musterschülern: Da wirft man die Mathearbeit als Papierflieger aus dem Klassenfenster, das Teil dreht eine anschauliche Runde über den Schulhof und das anschließende Feld, beschreib... | Continue reading