Tim Sweeney: Epic’s CEO on Fortnite on Android, skipping Google Play, and the open Metaverse
Tim Sweeney is quiet as CEOs go. But the head of Epic Games isn’t shy when it comes to expressing his opinions about the...
Google and Unity partner to boost mobile game advertising
In mobile games, 96 percent of players don’t pay any money for game content. But 71 percent of them say they won’t mind watching...
Google hires Sony’s PlayStation VR guru and Magic Lab head Richard Marks (updated)
Google has hired Richard Marks, a former senior research engineer who helped create Sony’s PlayStation VR virtual reality headset and its PlayStation Move controllers,...
Chrome 68 arrives with new APIs and all HTTP sites marked as not secure
Google today launched Chrome 68 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The release includes the Page Lifecycle API, the Payment Handler API, and a change...
Spotify, Snapchat, and more are down following Google Cloud incident (update: fixed)
Updated at 1:35 p.m. Pacific time. Google has fixed the problem. Multiple online services are experiencing outages and slow responses today due to a...
Grandmaster Lee Sedol to launch blockchain version of Go board game
South Korean Go grandmaster Lee Sedol became famous for losing to Google’s AlphaGo artificial intelligence in a match playing the ancient Chinese board game....
Google Daydream SDK now supports multiple controllers for some devices
Until now, Google’s Daydream VR has been limited by support for only a single, basic controller, but that may be changing. Simultaneous multiple controller...
Google’s DeepMind taught AI teamwork by playing Quake III Arena
Google's DeepMind today shared the results of training multiple AI systems to play Capture the Flag on Quake III Arena, a multiplayer first-person shooter game. The AI played nearly 450,000 games to gain its dominance over human players and establish its understanding of how to work with other machines and humans.
Google launches AR measuring app
Want to measure how Apple and Google are doing in the AR race? Well you could look to both company’s actual measuring apps, both...
Netflix won’t stream real games, but EA, Google, and Microsoft will
The tech world was buzzing today with a report that Netflix will stream Telltale Games’ Minecraft: Story Mode — an initiative that looked like the video subscription...