Venture Beat - 13 Jun 2016 19:52

At its WWDC conference in San Francisco today, Apple said that it’s bringing the Siri virtual assistant to its next Mac desktop operating system, macOS (formerly known as OS X) Sierra. You’ll be able to send text mes...
Venture Beat - 13 Jun 2016 19:47

Microsoft is making zombie killing fun again. Dead Rishing 4 is coming to Xbox One and Windows 10 this holiday. During its media breifing before the Electronic Entertainment Expo trade show in Los Angeles, Microsoft and ...
Venture Beat - 13 Jun 2016 18:57

Microsoft gave us a new look at ReCore during its Electronic Entertainment Expo lead-in event today in Los Angeles. ReCore is an action game starring a girl and a robot dog with a removable core that can be placed inside...
Venture Beat - 13 Jun 2016 19:30

If you loved Gwent, you weren’t alone. It was such a success that it’s now its own game. CD Projekt Red announced today during Microsoft’s Electronic Entertainment Expo show that Gwent: The Witcher Card Game is bec...
Venture Beat - 13 Jun 2016 19:53

Xbox One owners can play a new Halo game right now. But it’s not the next entry in Microsoft’s massively popular first-person shooter series. The publisher announced today at its lead-in event for the Electronic Ente...
Venture Beat - 13 Jun 2016 19:40

At its WWDC developer conference in San Francisco today, Apple talked about the next version of tvOS, the operating system for the Apple TV. Apple first launched the iOS-based tvOS just nine months ago, even though the c...
Venture Beat - 13 Jun 2016 19:29

Xbox Live is expanding the way that Minecraft fans can play with one another. Microsoft is using its online service to bring cross-play to Minecraft between Xbox One, Xbox 360, PC, iOS, Android, and Windows Phone as well...
Venture Beat - 13 Jun 2016 19:06

Apple announced today that its App Store has surpassed 2 million apps and 130 billion downloads, resulting in nearly $50 billion paid out to developers. We’d love to compare that figure with Google’s Play Store, but ...
Venture Beat - 13 Jun 2016 20:00

Advanced Micro Devices is providing a sneak peek at three new graphics cards based on its Polaris designs that will be able to run virtual reality games. The Polaris architecture is the company’s first new graphics fou...
Venture Beat - 13 Jun 2016 19:18

Apple unveiled its third major update to watchOS, the software that powers the Apple Watch, today on stage during the annual WWDC developer conference. With the new version there will be some common components of Apple�...
Venture Beat - 13 Jun 2016 19:10

Final Fantasy XV is only a few months away, but Square Enix isn’t done with teasing new gameplay footage. At Microsoft’s press briefing for the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo trade show, the developer demonstra...
Venture Beat - 13 Jun 2016 18:41

Microsoft showed off Gears of War 4 as the flagship game coming this fall to the Xbox One this morning during its lead-in event today at the Electronic Entertainment Expo trade show in Los Angeles. Gears of War 4 is late...
Venture Beat - 13 Jun 2016 23:53

B.U.D. isn’t a baby anymore. The blocky robot is ready to leave its world and explore the moon. At Ubisoft’s press briefing for the Electronic Entertainment Expo, the publisher announced Grow Up, which is coming to P...
Venture Beat - 13 Jun 2016 23:30

Ubisoft is betting that its first foray into movies, Assassin’s Creed, will be a big hit when it debuts this winter. After all, it’s a big year for game-based movies. We’ve seen the debut of The Angry Birds Movie (...
Venture Beat - 13 Jun 2016 18:52

Microsoft revealed today during its Electronic Entertainment Expo lead-in event in Los Angeles that its free-to-play fighting game Killer Instinct is getting a new, familiar character. General Raam, the main villain from...
Venture Beat - 13 Jun 2016 23:30

Ubisoft is launching a new extreme winter sports game dubbed Steep. It combines the majesty of gigantic mountains in the Alps and extreme sports such as paragliding and wingsuit acrobatics. Igor Manceau, the creative dir...
Venture Beat - 13 Jun 2016 23:30

Ubisoft is one of the first companies to announce a title for the upcoming Nintendo NX game console, which launches in 2017. The French game publisher’s Just Dance 2017 will ship on a variety of platforms, including th...
Venture Beat - 13 Jun 2016 23:21

Welcome to the future … well, a 1980s and 1990s laser-disc sci-fi future. Ubisoft’s incredible motorcycle platforming series is back with a new entry that combines it with the Blood Dragon spin off of Far Cry. Trials...
Venture Beat - 13 Jun 2016 23:19

Apple kicked off its annual developer conference today in San Francisco on a sour note, as CEO Tim Cook asked attendants to stand up in silence to commemorate the shooting victims in Orlando. Then, the company launched i...
Venture Beat - 13 Jun 2016 23:16

For Honor made an appearance during Ubisoft’s Electronic Entertainment Expo event today in Los Angeles. Last year, For Honor’s demo at Ubisoft’s E3 focused on multiplayer. This year, Ubisoft showed off the campaign...
Venture Beat - 13 Jun 2016 23:06

Hidden in a slide during Apple’s WWDC developer conference keynote today was a reference to “Xcode editor extensions.” The presentation style of this information suggests that this is a minor update. But in fact, i...
Venture Beat - 13 Jun 2016 22:56

Your hands are about to joing you in Oculus’s virtual worlds. The Oculus Rift VR headset’s Touch controllers are launching later this year, and now the Facebook subsidiary is running down some of the games you can ex...