Minecraft, Mario, and FIFA dominate E3 buzz on Facebook
Ahead of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), Facebook is measuring what people are talking about in the console and PC game markets. During April...
Blackstorm Labs adds AI chatbot to its EverWing Messenger game
Blackstorm Labs is launching an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot for its EverWing game on Facebook Messenger’s Instant Games platform. The chatbot is part of...
Zynga launches Words With Friends for Instant Games on Facebook Messenger
Zynga is starting to bet big on Instant Games, the instantly playable games on Facebook Messenger and iMessage. And today, the company is launching...
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...