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Where to place your bets in VR: Content, platform, or hardware?
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2016 22:05
GUEST: When virtual reality is done right, it can be a magical experience. The first time I tried on Samsung Gear VR, I remember being blown away as I traveled around the solar system in first person. The feeling of floa...
Mass Effect: Andromeda promises more freedom than any BioWare game ever
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2016 22:33
Electronic Arts showed off Mass Effect: Andromeda today during its event today ahead of the massive Electronic Entertainment Expo trade show in Los Angeles. Andromeda isn’t scheduled for a retail release until 2017. Th...
Visceral's Star Wars game was made a brief appearance at EA's E3 event
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2016 23:08
Well, it wasn’t much, but we got a brief look at a new Star Wars game during EA’s leadup event for the Electronic Entertainment Expo, which is broadcasting simultaneously from Los Angeles and London. Visceral, the st...
How Electronic Arts is taking a big leap into esports for all players (interview)
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2016 23:01
Electronic Arts just announced a three-tiered strategy for esports in its blockbuster games. The company will make esports stars out of everyone with its Challenger Events, where it will become easier to set up esports t...
EA's Peter Moore lays out tiered esports strategy to make everyone a star
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2016 23:00
The growth of esports in the past decade has been impressive, and now the game industry’s biggest companies are diving into it. An example is Electronic Arts, which just unveiled its esports strategy at its press confe...
Titanfall 2 has 6 new Titans and a single-player mode
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2016 22:21
The action in Respawn Entertainment’s Titanfall 2 is going to be loud, intense, and satisfying. That’s my impression from the demo that developer Respawn showed today at Electronic Arts’ press conference ahead of t...
Watch the EA E3 2016 media prebriefing right here
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2016 21:55
E3 2016 is happening, and we’re watching it live right here. First up for the huge Electronic Entertainment Expo tradeshow in Los Angelese is Electronic Arts. It is showing off Titanfall 2, Battlefield 1, and more. Cli...
Silicon Dragon Launches Pitch Contests For China
Forbes - 12 Jun 2016 01:24
Silicon Dragon launches pitch contest for founders to compete to scale up in China.
E3 2016: Every trailer and announcement so far from EA and more
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2016 23:30
The gaming industry is coming together in Los Angeles to get everyone worked up about the next wave of big releases, and we’re gonna start cataloging the news. Starting before E3 and continuing through the week of the ...
EA Originals is publisher's program to help and promote indie developers
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2016 22:58
Electronic Arts is boosting on its efforts to help independent studios from around the world. At a press briefing today for the massive Electronic Entertainment Expo trade show in Los Angeles, the publisher announced its...
EA teases an elaborate future of Star Wars games in sizzle video
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2016 22:57
Electronic Arts is bringing the galaxy far, far away a little closer. Star Wars will have a number of new games over the next few years, and EA doesn’t want you to forget it. The publisher released a new video as part ...
Madden publisher EA launches esports 'for everyone' initative
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2016 22:40
Now we know what Electronic Arts executive Peter Moore is up to. He wants to know if you’re the best Madden NFL player in the world. EA announced its plans to take on esports with an initiative targeted at everyone. Du...
Xbox One Slim leaks and is 40% smaller than the original
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2016 21:48
If you’ve waited to get an Xbox One, you’ll definitely be getting the nicer model. The Xbox One Slim has leaked via the gaming forum NeoGaf. The new model of Microsoft’s latest console will be able to support 4K vi...
More Zelda Wii U art: See that mountain? You can climb it
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2016 21:05
Amazon leaked a new image of the next game in The Legend of Zelda series for the Wii U, and it may have revealed one of series hero Link’s newest abilities. The hero of the next Zelda, which is debuting in 2017 for Wii...
How Olins' Antique Collection Lead Him To Prison For Cheating Civil Creditors
Forbes - 12 Jun 2016 19:40
In 1989, SpatiaLight, Inc., of Novato, California, started manufacturing high-resolution displays for computers and televisions. The company struggled for years, but in 2005 was able to land LG Electronics as a customer....
Equity crowdfunding can do for biotech what Kickstarter did for hardware
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2016 19:15
GUEST: Building any company is hard, but building a biotech company is particularly hard. Not only do biotech companies have significant inherent costs due to lab space, DNA, and reagents purchase, but the life cycles of...
Titanfall 2's E3 trailer leaks early -- EA releases it early
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2016 19:00
Electronic Arts is hiding announcement event later today to talk about all of its upcoming games, and that includes Titanfall 2. But we actually got an early look because someone at EA forgot to turn the cameras off whil...
Birth Of IBM, Oracle, And Calculating Machines: This Week In Tech History
Forbes - 12 Jun 2016 18:15
This week's milestones in the history of technology
Apple's WWDC 2016: Everything we know, plus how to watch live
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2016 18:06
Apple’s annual World Wide Developer Conference is almost here. The main keynote — where Apple will share the future of iOS, OS X, and Siri — kicks off at 10 a.m. Pacific (1 p.m. Eastern) in San Francisco, and you c...
Final Fantasy XV director on keeping a flagship Japanese series relevant in 2016
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2016 17:00
Square Enix knows that Final Fantasy isn't as popular as it used to be. But the developer hopes it can fix the franchise's reputation with Final Fantasy XV. Out on September 30 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, Final Fanta...
How Gaming Is Helping Organizations Accelerate Recruitment
Forbes - 12 Jun 2016 17:00
As a child I would blast alien creatures that resembled Lego blocks on my Atari game console. After playing, I would shut off the system and move on with my day. Today, people play games to learn, develop, exercise, rel...
Think your brand is safe on Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn? Think again.
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2016 16:10
GUEST: A barrage of serious brand threats now run rampant across social networks: account takeovers, brand impersonations, promotion scams, malvertising events, counterfeit sales, trademark violations, phishing, hashtag ...