Sensor Tower: Candy Crush Friends Saga’s 10 million first-week downloads have a sour note
King‘s newest puzzle game, Candy Crush Friends Saga, has reached 10 million downloads in its first week, according to mobile research firm Sensor Tower. The...
Juji is an empathetic AI chatbot that holds personalized conversations with people
Artificial intelligence researcher Michelle Zhou has created a chatbot called Juji with a cheerful personality to hold personal conversations with people. The chatbot has...
Hearthstone’s in-game tournaments are on hold so Blizzard doesn’t disappoint you
Hearthstone announced a in-game tournaments in February. But on September 18, publisher Blizzard Entertainment revealed that this long-anticipated multiplayer feature was going on hiatus....
DevLab 2018 offers VR/AR artists an incubator and shot at funding
Two years ago, Oculus teamed up with VR promoter Kaleidoscope to create DevLab, an incubator for independent VR projects. Now they’re back to do...
God of War creator David Jaffe says he wants to make a VR horror game
Earlier this week on his livestream talk show, God of War and Twisted Metal creator David Jaffe received a phone call from Cory Barlog, the director and...
Night Terrors: Bloody Mary is AR horror from Paranormal Activity’s director
Virtual reality is an excellent tool for horror game because when you wear a VR headset, it feels like you’re transported to another world....
Magic Leap’s Mica is a human-like AI in augmented reality
Magic Leap showed off a demo of Mica, a humanlike artificial intelligence that can be viewed in the company’s augmented reality glasses, the Magic...
ILMxLAB shows off Star Wars: Project Porg for Magic Leap One
ILMxLAB showed off its Star Wars: Project Porg at the Magic Leap L.E.A.P. conference. The demo I saw will be available as part of...
Reigns: Game of Thrones uses Apple’s face recognition to determine trust or deceit
In the upcoming Reigns: Game of Thrones for iOS, you have to know who to trust. Should you ally yourself with Tyrion Lannister or Daenerys Targaryen?...
Epic acquires game security and player services firm Kamu
Epic Games is making hundreds of millions of dollars from its Fortnite battle royale game, and now it’s putting that money to use. Epic...