UC Davis uses a game to chart its future
If you want new ideas, you may need to come up with fresh ways of soliciting them. And that’s why the University of California at...
Zynga puts its San Francisco headquarters up for sale
Zynga has put its San Francisco headquarters up for sale, confirming a report today from the San Francisco blog SFist. The social mobile game company’s headcount...
Twitch competitor DingIt rounds up 20M monthly viewers
Twitch shouldn’t be, well, twitching just yet, but another site wants a piece of that streaming pie. DingIt, a global streaming site specializing in...
Facebook’s Zuckerberg appears at Samsung event to talk VR, confirms Minecraft is coming to Oculus
BARCELONA, Spain — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivered a much-needed shot of adrenaline to Samsung’s Unpacked press conference by making an unannounced appearance on...
Facebook says people have watched 1 million hours of video with Samsung Gear VR, forms Social VR team
Facebook today announced a few updates for its virtual reality (VR) efforts. The company said it has established a formal Social VR team that...
What Twitch and esports can teach us about building successful media companies
From a 2011 spinoff of Justin.tv to a $1 billion acquisition by Amazon in 2014, Twitch has taken over esports viewing and led the...
Google Play Games drops Google+ integration
You no longer need a Google+ account to enjoy the benefits of connected gaming on Android. Google is introducing Gamer IDs to its Google...
Amazon adds zombie apocalypse reference to its AWS terms
Public cloud infrastructure provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) is getting snarky. And it’s not even April Fools’ Day. In conjunction with the launch last...
Utomik’s ‘Netflix for games’ adds 200 more titles to its cloud-streaming library
Utomik said today that it struck a deal with game distributor Plug In Digital to add 200 more games to Utomik’s subscription cloud gaming service. The copmany is the latest of many to try to exploit cloud computing and create an innovative new gaming service with it.
Google’s AI beats a professional Go player, an industry first
Google has achieved something major in artificial intelligence (AI) research. A computer system it has built to play the ancient Chinese board game Go...