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Unity plays the acquisition game with chat service Vivox

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 29, 2019
2 min

Unity Technologies, the maker of the Unity game engine, announced it has acquired Vivox, the provider of cross-platform voice and text communication tools for...

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Unity and USC film school team up on online game design course

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 29, 2019
2 min

Unity Technologies has partnered with the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts to launch a self-paced, adaptive online course teaching students and...

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February 2019 Xbox Games with Gold — Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon and Assassin’s Creed: Rogue

Posted byby Mike Minotti
January 29, 2019
1 min

Microsoft has revealed the free games that will be available to Xbox Live Gold subscribers during February, which includes some modern retro-inspired games and...

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FanAI buys esports data startup Waypoint Media

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 29, 2019
2 min

FanAI, an esports audience analytics company, announced it has acquired esports data startup, Waypoint Media. It’s one more sign that esports is heating up,...

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State Farm sponsors Fortnite streamer DrLupo

Posted byby Mike Minotti
January 29, 2019
1 min

State Farm announced today that it has entered a sponsorship agreement with Benjamin “DrLupo” Lupo, one of the most popular Fortnite streamers in the world. DrLupo...

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Why NetEase and Quantic Dream are teaming up for games on multiple platforms

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 29, 2019
9 min

For the past 12 years, Quantic Dream has been making exclusive video games like Detroit: Become Human and Heavy Rain for the PlayStation 4. But Chinese internet company...

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NetEase invests in Detroit: Become Human game studio Quantic Dream

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 29, 2019
3 min

Chinese internet company NetEase Games has acquired a minority stake in Quantic Dream, the French game studio that created blockbuster games such as Detroit:...

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Piper upgrades DIY computer kit with bigger screen, built-in speaker, and AC power adapter

Posted byby GamesBeat
January 29, 2019
2 min

Piper has announced the next version of its Raspberry Pi-powered DIY computer building kit for kids. A few years back, the San Francisco-based education technology startup...