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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VentureBeat’s second special issue is nigh. Following our first special issue, Power in AI, this next one focuses on AI and security. Each special issue is a package of articles that explores a central topic from a variety of angles, from voices in industry, academia, and our newsroom. Whether we’re …
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Presented by Sinch Brand marketers have seen the future of enterprise comms, and it’s not email or apps. It’s almost certainly rich conversational messaging. So, how will it look in 2030? Futurologists can be sure of one thing: technology might change in unexpected ways, but people don’t. While 1960s future-gazers …
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Google hopes to spur the development of AI capable of understanding the ways in which languages express different meanings. To this end, company researchers today detailed a data set — TyDi QA, a question-answering data set covering 11 languages — inspired by typological diversity, or the notion that different languages …
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Take-Two revealed today that Red Dead Redemption 2 has now sold over 29 million copies. The new came as part of the publisher’s latest financial results. That is up from 26.5 million that Take-Two reported in the previous quarter. Red Dead Redemption 2 came out for PC on November 5 …
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