Categories Posted inin Technology Immersal maps Helsinki in city-scale AR using crowdsourcing mobile app Posted byby GamesBeat March 30, 2020 2 min Last year, U.K.-based Scape showed off a city-scale AR mapping solution that promised to let mobile devices tap into 3D maps and persistent, cloud-stored digital... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Business Futuur’s prediction market makes forecasting into a game Posted byby Dean Takahashi April 25, 2018 2 min Futuur is announcing a prediction market that is equal parts a forecasting tool, a virtual wagering platform, and a game. The Rio de Janeiro,... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Development Game of Code: Checkio gamifies and crowdsources the task of programming Posted byby Dean Takahashi July 8, 2014 3 min Checkio's code learners can now compete on a worldwide basis and share what they create. Continue Reading 3 min
Categories Posted inin Business RocketOwl is improving the world, one player and one tree at a time Posted byby GamesBeat August 29, 2012 2 min Through its game GreenSpace, RocketOwl hopes to educate people on social causes and help the environment. Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Technology Inside Will Wright’s next big game: HiveMind (exclusive) Posted byby Dean Takahashi November 16, 2011 6 min Will Wright has created some of the biggest video games of all time, from SimCity to The Sims — games that have sold well... Continue Reading 6 min
Categories Posted inin Business Fans are getting their say in video games Posted byby Dean Takahashi April 9, 2011 2 min In the award-winning video game BioShock, one of the best games of 2007, there was a bar in the game called Sinclair Spirits, named... Continue Reading 2 min
Categories Posted inin Technology YD Online’s Angel’s Choice app to help with iPhone discovery Posted byby Dean Takahashi October 18, 2010 3 min Getting stuff discovered on the App Store is pretty tough, considering there are about 300,000 apps available. But there’s an app for that. YD... Continue Reading 3 min