Gamer parents are most concerned with multiplayer games, UGC
A new study from WebPurify shows that gamers turned parents are less concerned with the content of games compared to the risks posed by...
DeepMind makes bet on AI system that can play poker, chess, Go, and more
DeepMind, the AI lab backed by Google parent company Alphabet, has long invested in game-playing AI systems. It’s the lab’s philosophy that games, while...
Facebook develops AI algorithm that learns to play poker on the fly
Facebook researchers have developed a general AI framework called Recursive Belief-based Learning (ReBeL) that they say achieves better-than-human performance in heads-up, no-limit Texas hold’em...
Intel: 90% of 5G data will be video, but AR gaming and VR will grow
A new report from Intel and Ovum lays out the companies’ expectations for the growth of 5G cellular networks over the next decade, and...
GSMA: U.S. will ‘pioneer’ 5G, boast 190 million connections by 2025
International mobile network trade organization GSMA forecasts that the United States will be a “pioneer market” for 5G wireless technology, thanks to both an...
100B messages and 500M users say push still works — for messages that matter
Apps that do push well see four times the engagement and twice the retention.
Study: Video games depict religion as violent and problematic (interview)
Many newer-generation video games equate religion with violence, finds a new study from the University of Missouri. Greg Perreault, a doctoral student in the...
World of Warcraft could help your grandma focus
There’s hope for grandma and grandpa in video games. Rolling up a night elf hunter or orc shaman in massively multiplayer online role-playing game World...
Study: U.S. gaming population has nearly tripled in three years
The number of people playing video games in the U.S. has risen 241 percent since 2008, according to a new study from market research...