Publisher Nexon and developer Boss Key Productions’s high-jumping low-gravity team shooter LawBreakers has hit a stopping point. The studio has been open about how the game hasn’t met its expectations since its launch on PC and PlayStation 4 in August. It will continue to support … | Continue reading
GUEST: In the current social climate, the dregs of #MeToo, GamerGate, and the #NotNolan movements are poisoning the reputation of the gaming industry and are creating a dark, biased culture among gamers. However, past the mask of stereotypes and negative news coverage, research i … | Continue reading
GUEST: AI is changing the way we live. Virtual assistants giving us new ways to shop, self-driving cars promising us new commuting options, and bots assisting in the workplace show companies applying AI to a range of industries to drive innovation and optimize workflows. But the … | Continue reading
VB LIVE: Asia-Pacific-based esports events have fanatic fans who pay big bucks for their content — and any streaming content company can reproduce this success. Join this VB Live event to learn more about effectively engaging a global audience for real ROI in your streaming conte … | Continue reading
The problems women in tech face are well documented. But what happens when the tech itself causes problems for women? Facebook’s ad policies were called out for being biased against women’s health in 2015. After interviewing founders from multiple femtech startups, VentureBeat ha … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Is something still a clicker game if you replace the mouse with your fingers? Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms is about to find out as it brings its Dungeons & Dragons clicker stylings to mobile for the first time, coming to iPad and Android tablets during the se … | Continue reading
GUEST: Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is an exciting area of AI research, with potential applicability to a variety of problem areas. Some see DRL as a path to artificial general intelligence, or AGI, because of how it mirrors human learning by exploring and receiving feedback … | Continue reading
Blizzard Entertainment announced today that Diablo’s iconic storyteller and master rapper Deckard Cain is joining Heroes of the Storm’s roster. The character will soon be playable on the Public Test Realm at a to-be-announced date. Along with the addition of the Horadric lore mas … | Continue reading
Apple’s redesigned Mac Pro desktop computer is coming in 2019 rather than 2018, a report has confirmed, providing clarity so that potential purchasers of the company’s iMac Pro could move forward without waiting all year on a more powerful alternative. TechCrunch delivered the ba … | Continue reading
ESP Gaming has created an esports studio in partnership with its sister company Poker Central to hold esports events at the Aria Resort & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip. The studio will be owned and operated by Poker Central, and it will host live esports events such as the Vaingl … | Continue reading
Jam City announced today that Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery is coming out on Android and iOS on April 15. Harry Potter is one of the most recognizable fantasy franchises in the world. Its media empire contains books, movies, games, and more. While we’ve seen plenty of Harry Pott … | Continue reading
Blizzard Entertianment announced today that the Battle for Azeroth expansion for World of Warcraft is coming out on August 14. This will be the seventh expansion for multiplayer online role-playing game. World of Warcraft requires a subscriptions, which costs $15 per month. Subsc … | Continue reading
Indie developer Burgess Voshell’s No Place is all about loving and destroying architecture. It’s a puzzle game that’s slated for release later this year on PC and iOS devices. No Place evokes the geometric, minimalist beauty of Ustwo Games’ Monument Valley, but its core mechanic … | Continue reading
The jarring experiences of launching, exiting, and switching VR apps within a separate 2D interface could become distant memories if Oasis by Admix and Somnium Space takes off. Inspired by the same-named VR hub in Ready Player One, Oasis promises to add “portals” to existing VR g … | Continue reading
VB EVENT: GamesBeat Summit 2018 is coming up next week on April 9 & 10 in Mill Valley, CA and we’re not leaving any stone unturned in looking at the future of the industry. Enter blockchain. It ain’t just cryptocurrency anymore. It’s disrupting entire industries, and the gaming i … | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: SSP Innovations, LLC ("SSP" or the "Company"), a provider of IT services and software development to electric, gas, and water utilities, announced the closing of the acquisition of Wind Lake Solutions, Inc. ("Wind Lake"). Wind Lake,... | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Game developers have battled each other for decades about whether voxels or polygons are best for game graphics. A voxel is volume element, a way of illustrating a 3D image without using traditional polygons. Atomontage‘s founders believe voxels are a much better way t … | Continue reading
The recent Game Developers Conference had a diverse collection of attendees and speakers from all over the world. Some of them had trouble making it into San Francisco, thanks to heavier border screening. But a map of where people came from (above) showed that game development ha … | Continue reading
If the idea of using a controller to run in VR strikes you as old-fashioned, Kat VR’s upcoming Kat Walk Mini is going to excite you. The company has just released a new video detailing its compact omni-directional virtual treadmill, which looks like it’s straight out of Ready Pla … | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: LendingHome – the largest, fastest-growing online mortgage marketplace lender – today announced a second consecutive spot on the HousingWire Tech100 list, which recognizes the most innovative technology companies in the U.S.... | Continue reading
As startups around the world rush to embrace initial coin offerings (ICOs), regulators are struggling with this new form of fundraising. At one extreme, China has banned ICOs, while the U.S. has been regulating them aggressively. But there are plenty of other nations trying to pl … | Continue reading
Yick Kai Chan was a rare person who combined his real world experience as an architect and his training as a digital artist. That experience came together at Zynga, where he worked creating iconic buildings for the social game CityVille. But Chan passed away suddenly over the wee … | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: Diaceutics, the diagnostic commercialization company that improves patient outcomes via better diagnostic testing, today announces that it has raised $5 million in new mezzanine financing from two partners, WhiteRock Capital Partners*... | Continue reading
SPONSORED: Presented by Coinseed Investing in cryptocurrencies has been hugely rewarding and risky at the same time. A lot has depended on how and when you started. Just a year ago, one bitcoin was worth $1,000. Currently, it’s worth more than $7,000 after falling from its all-ti … | Continue reading
(Reuters) — The buzzy debut of Spotify on the New York Stock Exchange on Tuesday drew retail investors across generations, not just the millennials who make up the largest proportion of the music streaming service’s customer base, retail brokerages said on Wednesday. Spotify’s li … | Continue reading
Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview for PCs with Sets, Bluetooth, and Calculator improvements. This build is from the RS5 branch, which represents the Windows 10 update the company plans to release much later this year. The next update will come sooner (this month), … | Continue reading
(Reuters) — Over 50 top Artificial Intelligence researchers on Wednesday announced a boycott of KAIST, South Korea’s top university, after it opened what they called an AI weapons lab with one of South Korea’s largest companies. The researchers, based in 30 countries, said they w … | Continue reading
South Korean mobile titan Netmarble has spent $190 million to acquire a 25.71 percent stake in Big Hit Entertainment, the music label behind the popular South Korean pop group BTS. The investment makes it the company’s second largest shareholder. This announcement comes ahead of … | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: Cryptic Labs and its Chief Scientist, Turing Award winner Dr. Whitfield "Whit" Diffie recently confirmed that they have signed a research agreement with NKN, an open-source, community-driven blockchain project, to accelerate innovation... | Continue reading
Amazon Web Services announced a new service today that could solve one of the biggest security headaches facing users of the cloud platform. The AWS Secrets Manager will allow developers to programmatically insert the credentials their applications need without writing them into … | Continue reading
As CEO Mark Zuckerberg prepares to testify before Congress next week to answer questions about the company’s privacy and data policies, Facebook announced a slew of changes to its APIs. The changes don’t come as a surprise — Facebook already announced that it was conducting an au … | Continue reading
Lagging a little behind the beta releases of iOS 11.4, tvOS 11.4, and watchOS 4.3.1, the first public beta of macOS High Sierra 10.13.5 was released by Apple today. A release exclusively for developers arrived last night. Like the first iOS 11.4 beta, the initial 10.13.5 beta app … | Continue reading
On this week’s GamesBeat Decides podcast, co-host Jeff Grubb prepares for PAX East by getting a cold. As co-host Mike Minotti points out, this is probably the big one, so it’s time to start the GamesBeat Decides farewell tour. In addition to Jeff’s impending doom, the crew talks … | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: BOOSTO, a new decentralized application (DApp) framework that will enable a new range of services for the world of influencers, has added a strong group of leaders to their advisory committee. A group that now includes some of... | Continue reading
Amazon Web Services announced a new low-cost storage offering today aimed at providing customers with an even cheaper way of keeping data in the cloud when they don’t need it right away. It’s based on the company’s Simple Storage Service, better known as S3. The new S3 One Zone I … | Continue reading
We are delighted to report that our latest speaker for GamesBeat 2018 is John Underkoffler the CEO of Oblong Industries and science advisor for the landmark sci-fi film Minority Report. He did such a great job in both a presentation and a visionary panel on augmented reality that … | Continue reading
Ubisoft announced today that Far Cry 5 has become the fastest-selling game in the franchise, more than doubling the first week sales for Far Cry 4. It has earned $310 million in its first week. Far Cry 5 came out on March 27 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. While past games h … | Continue reading
Microsoft announced today that it plans to invest $5 billion into various programs surrounding the Internet of Things (IoT) over the next four years, as part of its bid to make the deployment and use of internet-connected hardware easier for its business customers. This commitmen … | Continue reading
The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman’s Skybound Entertainment has created Skybound Games specifically for publishing indie games. The new division will start off by bringing Monomi Park’s Slime Rancher and Hinterland’s The Long Dark to physical retail for Xbox One and PlayStat … | Continue reading
Insomniac Games revealed today that its Spider-Man game will come out on September 7. The open-world game is a PlayStation 4 exclusive. This is one of Sony’s biggest releases of the year. The September release will give the PlayStation 4 a boost heading into the holiday season. I … | Continue reading
A solid majority of parents expect that virtual reality will help educate children but believe the technology also poses health risks, a new report from Common Sense Media said today. The nonprofit media research group’s Virtual Reality 101 study is cautiously optimistic about th … | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: Today, Next47, the $1.2 billion global venture fund backed by Siemens, is excited to announce the expansion of its US team with Matthew Cowan and T.J. Rylander joining as Partners and Ching-Yu Hu as a Principal. With backgrounds... | Continue reading
Morph3D has built a platform for creating custom avatars for virtual reality characters. And it is announcing today that it has integrated its Ready Player One: Avatar Creator into Vive Studios’ The OASIS beta. The avatars fit the VR theme of the Steven Spielberg film and Ernest … | Continue reading
Microsoft today said it has developed a new way for its most popular AI-powered bots to speak and analyze human voices at the same time, a skill engineers believe leads to more naturalistic conversations. The bots can also predict when to pause, what a person will say next, and a … | Continue reading
(Reuters) — Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg will testify before the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee on April 11, the panel said on Wednesday. Facebook has come under fire in recent weeks after it was revealed that political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, w … | Continue reading
Apple is actively working on curved screens and touchless gesture controls for iPhones, according to a new Bloomberg report this morning. The features are expected to help Apple differentiate its devices in an increasingly crowded market, but both are said to be years away from a … | Continue reading
Work has begun on a new subsea cable system connecting Japan with Australia via Guam, and Google has joined as an investor and key consortium member. The Japan-Guam-Australia (JGA) cable is a joint project consisting of RTI Connectivity (RTIC), AARNet, and Google, with NEC and Al … | Continue reading
Fledgling bike-sharing startup Mobike is to be acquired by Chinese e-commerce giant Meituan-Dianping. Terms of the deal were not officially disclosed, but local media reports have pegged the value of the transaction at $2.7 billion. Launched initially in Shanghai back in 2016, Mo … | Continue reading