Tencent grabs the digital rights to NBA basketball in China
The deal enables Tencent to create NBA-themed games.
Overwolf and Twitch will hold app coding contest for gamers
These apps will overlay and offer features to existing PC games.
Spotify is coming to PlayStation soon, as Sony pulls the plug on its own music-streaming service
Spotify is adding game consoles to its list of supported platforms, with the news that it’s launching on PlayStation “soon.” While the music-streaming company hasn’t...
This artificially intelligent Mario learns how to chase coins and navigate the Mushroom Kingdom
The Mario A.I. Project has built a system in which Nintendo's famous plumber learns what navigating the Mushroom Kingdom means.
Twitch has a way to get you to the Super Bowl: Beat NFL pros at Madden 15
Twitch and Duracell want you to compete against some NFL and gaming pros for a chance to win Super Bowl tickets.
How big is Minecraft? It’s even more popular than ‘Frozen’ on YouTube
Gaming continues to generate millions of views on YouTube.
Dish Network finally launches Sling TV, its $20/month streaming TV service
The satellite TV company today debuted its online service called Sling TV, which allows you to get a linear TV experience without the television set.
Microsoft retiring original Kinect for Windows sensor in 2015
After the October release of the second version of the hands-free sensor, the original version is done.
Yahoo announces plans to kill off some regional news sites, sunsets Yahoo Classic Games, alerts, and profile sites
Today Yahoo released an updated product report for 2014, which highlights the closure of several regional sites. Yesterday the company shut down regional homepages...
How Google’s latest game gives a glimpse of our augmented-reality future
Google's Niantic Labs is doing a transmedia project with novelist and discredited memoirist James Frey. It's an intriguing partnership that, like Frey's books, plays fast and loose with notions of what the "truth" is.