The big business behind the NBA’s move into esports
A major professional sports league will operate an esports league, a first for the esports industry, with the National Basketball Association and Take-Two Interactive...
Machine learning will be a game-changer for esports
It’s a total understatement to say that the growing presence of machine learning in games is big news. The technology promises to turn the...
Gram Games expands to London as part of move to expand worldwide
Gram Games was running out of cash in 2014, and then Istanbul-based company made its fortune. It released 1010!, a Tetris-like puzzle game that has...
PlayStation remains in the lead for TV ad spending despite skipping the Super Bowl
GamesBeat has partnered with iSpot.tv, the real-time TV ad measurement company with attention analytics from 10 million smart TV screens, to bring you a monthly report on how gaming brands are spending. The results below are for the top five spending gaming industry brands in February 2017.
CloudGate Studio lets you kick a dinosaur in VR with HTC’s Vive Tracker
I must apologize in advance to the society for the prevention of cruelty to dinosaurs. In a recent demo of CloudGate Studio‘s Island 459...
Vive Tracker could lead to an ecosystem of ‘hundreds’ of accessories
During UploadVR’s interview with HTC’s president of Vive in China Alvin Graylin last week, I asked if the company had any more plans for add-on...
Facebook adds speech recognition to Oculus Rift, Gear VR
Facebook today announced the launch of a voice search feature for its Oculus Rift virtual reality (VR) headset and Samsung’s Gear VR headset. It’s...
‘Smart’ vibrator company settles $3.75 million privacy lawsuit
Think twice about connecting those sex toys to the Internet: A vibrator company has agreed to pay up to $10,000 to U.S. customers who...
Xsplit updates Player.me desktop app to bring together social and broadcasting tools
One of the leading software companies in the game livestreaming sector is combining a number of its tools into one service with the goal...
Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview with Creators Update version number
Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview for PCs, with no new features. This is the latest build of the company’s upcoming Windows...