The 9-inch rear displays on this full-size SUV made an Xbox One S pop
With one flip of a screen, two middle schoolers barely noticed a two-hour drive home in heavy traffic. That’s because I was testing a...
Magic: The Gathering expands its Twitch presence to 36 Pro Tour and other events in 2017
Wizards of the Coast and Amazon’s livestreaming subsidiary today announced that they’ll work together to broadcast 36 Magic: The Gathering Pro Tour competitions and other organized-play events this year.
Jagex creates RuneScape audio adventure with Amazon Alexa
Alexa, play RuneScape. Fantasy role-playing gamemaker Jagex has created an exclusive audio adventure based on its popular RuneScape PC game for Amazon’s Alexa voice-based intelligent personal assistant.
5 bots to try this week: Swelly, Chatform.ai, CNN, Flappy Bird, and Nightbot
The Flappy Bird game was massively popular and maybe even, in the words of its creator, “addictive.” It was also so 2014. Now in 2017,...
Microsoft reports $26.1 billion in Q2 2017 revenue: Azure up 93%, but Phone down 81% and Surface down 2%
Microsoft today reported earnings for its second fiscal quarter of 2017, including revenue of $26.1 billion, net income of $6.5 billion, and earnings per...
Ludacris launches Scrabble-like Slang N’ Friendz mobile game
Everybody uses slang, but you can’t use those words in games like Scrabble. So Ludacris, the hip hop entertainer, is launching a new word...
Improbable, a U.K. startup that helps devs build massive simulated worlds, to open first U.S. hub in San Francisco
Improbable, a U.K. startup that makes it easier for developers to build massive simulated worlds, has announced it’s opening its first base in the...
Tapjoy: Mobile games are more engaging and fun than social networks
Consumers feel happier and more engaged when they are playing mobile games than when they are using social networks, according to a research report...
MIT launches Play Labs to help AR, VR, and AI startups get off the ground
Bayview Labs, Seraph Group, and MIT Game Lab are creating Play Labs to accelerate startups in augmented reality, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence. The...
The dream of Ara: Inside the rise and fall of the world’s most revolutionary phone
It looked nothing like an iPhone, or anything Apple might dare to make. On September 10, 2013, the day Apple unveiled the iPhone 5S,...