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Jagex creates RuneScape audio adventure with Amazon Alexa

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 1, 2017
2 min

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.

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2 min

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Amazon’s latest version of Lumberyard game engine targets accessibility

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 25, 2017
2 min

Amazon is unveiling its latest update for its video game creation engine, Lumberyard Beta 1.7, which includes more than 403 new features, improvements, and...

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2 min

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Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang dives deep into gaming, VR, autonomous cars, and Shield TV

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 8, 2017
24 min

You could say that Nvidia is at its high-water mark. The company’s stock price has tripled in the past year. It has transformed itself...

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24 min

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Pokémon Sun and Moon and Final Fantasy XV were Amazon’s holiday best sellers

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
December 31, 2016
1 min

A lot of you are having fantastical and monstrous holidays. Pokémon Sun and Moon for the 3DS and Final Fantasy XV for PlayStation 4...

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1 min

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Star Citizen and Squadron 42 are using Amazon’s Lumberyard game engine

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 24, 2016
2 min

Cloud Imperium Games announced today that its Star Citizen and Squadron 42 games will use the Amazon Lumberyard game engine. These are two of the...

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2 min

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Twitch now permits streamers to broadcast non-gaming vlog-style content

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
December 15, 2016
2 min

Twitch is dropping some of its strictest rules to give its streamers more ways to interact with their viewers. The Amazon-owned livestreaming service launched the...

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Crytek employees worry about the fate of their company as payroll goes unpaid

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 12, 2016
2 min

Crytek reportedly hasn’t paid some of its employees in more than a month, according to complaints that are spreading on the Internet. The maker...

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Twitch finally adds a smarter tool to take on bigots, racists, and trolls in chat

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
December 12, 2016
2 min

The chat that sits alongside livestreams on Twitch is often a nightmare — especially for women. But now the Amazon-owned video platform has introduced...

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2 min

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NES Classic Edition tease: Amazon says it has ‘exciting announcements’ coming soon

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
December 7, 2016
2 min

Amazon is up to something, and it is probably of interest to anyone who is interested in Nintendo’s throwback console. The NES Classic Edition,...

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2 min

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Curse voice app adds video calls and screen sharing

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
December 6, 2016
1 min

Amazon’s Twitch game-livestreaming division acquired voice chat firm Curse back in August. Now Curse is launching a major update for its voice-over-internet-protocol app with...

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1 min