The White House’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2021 includes sizable increases in federal funding for AI and quantum computing projects. All told, the overall increase in federal R&D funding is 6% compared to fiscal year 2020, reaching $ 142.2 billion. Although much of the funding is aimed at R&D …
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THQ Nordic has a new studio in Bratislava, Slovakia called Nine Rocks Games. This team plans to begin work on an unnamed “survival/shooter” game immediately. “We welcome the newest addition to the THQ Nordic network of studios: Nine Rocks Games,” THQ Nordic CEO Klemens Kreuzer said. “I personally think it …
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Golf Pool VR does pretty much exactly what you would expect from it. That’s right — you play 8-ball pool with a golf club in VR. Golf Pool VR has five different environments across 10 single-player levels, and it also features a two-player competitive mode. The trailer shows one of …
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Strategy is almost a foul word today, the result of too many costly, high-level strategy projects in which considerable effort concludes with a fancy presentation that is neither actionable nor practical. All too often, such projects fail to provide adequate information for companies to make sound strategic decisions, defeating the …
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There’s a new place to play Mario Kart VR in central London. VR Zone, the VR arcade arm of Bandai Namco, this week launched the game at Namco Funscape in County Hall. Funscape is a long-running arcade venue located next to the London Eye and right in front of the …
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In 2014, Amazon bought Twitch.tv for an eye-popping $ 1 billion. The popular streaming platform now claims to have more than 100 million monthly users, suddenly giving people a platform for building their brand as a gamer and a streamer. From my experience building the esports broadcasting livestream ESV TV, …
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Charrúa Soccer debuted this week on Apple Arcade and it gives us a window into the culture of Uruguayan soccer. It may not seem like the indigenous South American Charrúa people have much to do with an Apple Arcade game, but 500 years ago, this warrior tribe of Uruguay, Argentina, and …
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Sony’s mysterious first-party development team, focused exclusively on making triple-A PSVR games, is closing down before it even revealed its first game. The studio, based in Manchester, U.K., was confirmed to be closing down to GamesIndustry.biz. According to the report, the move was made “to close it as part of …
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It was a big week with a lot of video game news, and the crew runs through it all on this week’s episode of the GamesBeat Decides podcast. Dan Houser is leaving Rockstar Games. Warcraft III: Reforged is the worst thing since murder. And Nvidia GeForce Now is launching out …
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