How Watch Dogs 2 stayed ahead of current events
For Watch Dogs 2, the truth turned out to be stranger than fiction. At the GamesBeat Summit today in Berkeley, California. (watch it here),...
Microsoft reports $23.6 billion in Q3 2017 revenue: Azure up 93%, Surface down 26%, and Windows up 5%
Microsoft today reported earnings for its third fiscal quarter of 2017, including revenue of $23.6 billion, net income of $5.7 billion, and earnings per...
Oculus’s Michael Abrash: AR glasses will change everything in ‘the next 50 years’
Oculus chief scientist Michael Abrash believes that we may soon see the proliferation of augmented reality glasses, describing them as possibly “one of the...
Zynga’s GIFs Against Friends is a big social GIF contest
Social networking is a competition of sorts with your friends. In recognition of that, Zynga is launching a new mobile party game called GIFs...
Everything Facebook announced at F8 2017
Facebook has unveiled a host of new features at its 2017 F8 developer conference, most focused on the curation of its global community. Attendees...
Japan’s Rakuten Games launches HTML5 social game platform
Japan’s Rakuten Games has launched its HTML5 social game platform known as R Games. The HTML5 platform — based on HTML5 standard, or the...
Apple’s AI chief describes potential for reinforcement learning
Artificial intelligence has made great progress in helping computers recognize images in photos and recommending products online that you’re more likely to buy. But...
Facebook now lets you stream live video directly from your computer
Facebook is taking streaming a step further today, enabling users to broadcast live video to Facebook directly from their desktop or laptop computers. In...
Is Optane Intel’s secret weapon?
Intel has announced availability of its first Optane storage solution (DC P4800x, 375GB) targeted at data centers and built with its revolutionary 3D CrossPoint...
PlayFab taps IBM’s Watson AI to understand why gamers keep playing
IBM and PlayFab are teaming up to deliver better insights about gamers based on analysis from IBM’s Watson artificial intelligence platform. Seattle-based PlayFab provides...