Wappier raises $4 million to power data visualization for apps and games
Mobile monetization gets harder and harder every year (heck, I’d bet this gets more difficult by the week in this ultra-competitive market). Companies have...
Richard Bartle interview: How game developers should think about sapient AI characters
Richard Bartle is one of the leading academics on video games and is a senior lecturer and honorary professor of computer game design at...
ProBeat: Even Ronaldinho needs computer vision to promote Teqball
Every year, Web Summit attracts celebrities from all over the world. This time, one of them was Ronaldinho, one of the greatest soccer football...
Microsoft starts shipping Hololens 2 for $3,500
Microsoft unveiled Hololens 2, its second-generation augmented reality headset, earlier this year at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The Seattle company’s been taking preorders...
Google Play Points launches in the U.S.
In September 2018, Google launched Google Play Points, a program that rewards Google Play Store customers with points that can be put toward purchase...
Oculus Quest headset might be getting an assistant
A new application package on the Oculus Quest seems to indicate that the device may receive a feature called the “Oculus Assistant” in a...
BlizzCon fans will be able to battle DeepMind’s AI in StarCraft 2
Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence program AlphaStar will battle attendees at BlizzCon 2019 in matches of the classic Blizzard real-time strategy game StarCraft 2. In...
DeepMind’s AlphaStar Final beats 99.8% of human StarCraft 2 players
Alphabet subsidiary DeepMind — which famously developed AlphaZero, a machine learning system that bested world champions in chess, shogi, and Go — returned to...
Fortnite’s black hole teases the future of entertainment
As audiences have embraced on-demand video services, algorithmic feeds, and an ever-growing number of digital “things to do,” our collective attentions have become hyper-fragmented....
Blade raises $33 million for its cloud gaming service Shadow
Blade has raised $33 million in venture capital as the Paris-based company continues to expand its Shadow cloud gaming service. Founded four years ago,...