The Leisure Economy is the embodiment of the hope that someday we could all get paid to play games. It has been a common topic at our GamesBeat Summit events, and came up again at our GamesBeat Summit 2020 event in a fireside chat with John Linden, CEO of Mythical …
Read More »
I’ll confess, I wasn’t sure nDreams was capable of pulling off its ambitions for Phantom: Covert Ops. For years the U.K.-based VR developer, one of the first brave/crazy enough to dedicate itself exclusively to the platform, seemed to zig-zag from near miss to significantly wider miss. The Assembly was a …
Read More »
(Reuters) — China’s foreign ministry said on Saturday the United States needed to stop the “unreasonable suppression” of Chinese companies like Huawei, and a Chinese newspaper said the government was ready to retaliate against Washington. The Trump administration on Friday moved to block global chip supplies to blacklisted telecoms equipment …
Read More »
Editor’s note: The following is an open letter from Aha CEO Brian de Haaff in reaction to financial bullying from public companies during the coronavirus crisis. On the surface, it was not unique. An email requesting extended invoicing terms for an Aha subscription. Not atypical considering world events, but it …
Read More »
We’ve seen a lot of funny and intriguing concepts for projects from Daniel Beauchamp, aka @pushmatrix on Twitter, but his latest reimagines for AR something that’s become an icon of VR design. The idea sees blue and red lightsabers coming out of the ends of fingers for a tabletop miniature …
Read More »
(Reuters) — Facebook is acquiring Giphy, a popular website for making and sharing animated images, or GIFs, and will integrate it with its rapidly growing Instagram photo-sharing app, Facebook said in a blog post on Friday. The cost, which Facebook and Giphy declined to disclose, was placed at around $ …
Read More »
I love Japanese role-playing games like the Final Fantasy and Persona series, but I just never got into Dragon Quest. But I’ve finally corrected this oversight. I had a few false starts with the classic franchise. When a remake of Dragon Quest IV came out for the Nintendo DS in …
Read More »
Millions of Americans turned to video games as a source of entertainment and social connection in March. And that led to a significant increase in spending, according to industry-tracking firm The NPD Group. The total U.S. video games business generated record spending of $ 10.86 billion during the first quarter. …
Read More »
(Reuters) — Electric car maker Tesla plans to introduce a new low-cost, long-life battery in its Model 3 sedan in China later this year or early next that it expects will bring the cost of electric vehicles in line with gasoline models, and allow EV batteries to have second and …
Read More »