Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney still opposes Microsoft’s Universal Windows Platform
Microsoft wants to unify its desktop, mobile and game platforms through the Universal Windows Platform (UWP). At the recent Microsoft Build conference, Microsoft CEO...
Windows 7 drops under 50% market share (Updated)
Windows 7 is still the king, but it no longer holds the majority. Update: Net Applications updated its numbers saying they did not pass...
Unity’s David Helgason on game design, VR, and mobile’s future
David Helgason cofounded Unity Technologies in 2003 to make a game engine that could help democratize game development. Over more than a decade, he...
Former Kabam COO Chris Carvalho carves a niche as a game startup adviser
You can think of Chris Carvalho as a game company accelerator. He started at mobile game company Kabam when it had just 25 people....
Gartner: Global PC shipments fell 9.6% in Q1 2016, the first quarter below 65 million units since 2007
No surprise here: The PC market started 2016 off poorly. Both Gartner and IDC have noted PC shipments were down globally, again. Gartner estimates...
Microsoft’s Satya Nadella dances around controversies, but doesn’t challenge any head on
Satya Nadella, chief executive of Microsoft, had a pretty tame keynote on the first day of Microsoft’s Build conference in San Francisco. He sometimes...
The Mustards dish on Shadow Complex Remastered and working with J.J. Abrams on Spyjinx
Chair Entertainment has been busy since it concluded its 50-million-download Infinity Blade mobile game series in 2014. Chair, a division of Epic Games, has just...
Angry Birds maker Rovio bringing its ToonsTV cartoon app to Apple TV
Angry Birds mobile game publisher Rovio is announcing today that its ToonsTV animated cartoon channel is flying to the Apple TV platform. The move...
Apple’s Tim Cook bids farewell to old HQ and signals future events in ‘spaceship’
Apple chief executive Tim Cook said his farewell to the company’s town hall theater at its current headquarters in Cupertino, Calif. The comment came...
Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak will be immortalized in a $350,000 wax figure
Now this is a way to cement a Silicon Valley legend. Madame Tussauds San Francisco said today it will make a wax figure of...