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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 contest for founders to compete to scale up in China.

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

This week's milestones in the history of technology

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...

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...

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...

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 ...