Amazon’s Alexa gets a board game: When in Rome
In what appears to be a first, Amazon’s Alexa will act as a guide for a board game called When in Rome, according to...
Forza Motorsport 7: Comparing the Mazda MX-5 Miata with its video game counterpart
Everything in life is a comparison test. You have to compare colleges, compare cities, and compare cars to figure out which one is the...
Someone unlocked Switch’s hidden NES Golf game
Over the weekend, the Switchbrew Nintendo Switch homebrew claim they found a copy of NES Golf hidden inside the system software for the hybrid home/handheld...
Microsoft’s Zo bot wants to play Exploding Kittens with you
Chat app users can now play Exploding Kittens with Microsoft’s conversational bot Zo, the company announced tody. Exploding Kittens is the first partner game...
Discord shuts down Nazi accounts following Charlottesville violence
Gamer voice and chat app Discord today announced it has shut down a server for altright.com, another associated with The Daily Stormer, and removed...
Indie dev turns Wikipedia into a text adventure game
Like a lot of people, I’ve spent hours clicking from link to link, sucked into Wikipedia’s endless void of information. Indie dev Kevan Davis...
Innovation competition produces new educational apps to help Syrian refugee children
An international consortium of humanitarian aid groups has announced the winners of a competition to develop educational apps for Syrian children displaced by that...
Milwaukee County requires Pokémon Go and AR/VR games to get land use permits
When you own land, you often own the rights to minerals, oil, or metals beneath it. Do you also own the right to virtual...
Samsung gets into gaming with Notebook Odyssey laptop
Samsung on Wednesday announced it’s launching a laptop geared for the gaming audience called the Notebook Odyssey. This is the company’s first official foray...
Angry Birds maker Rovio spins off Hatch, a subscription video game streaming service for mobile
Finland’s Rovio announced today that it has created a new company called Hatch Entertainment that is developing a Spotify-like service for mobile video games....