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Watch our PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Family Dinner tournament right here
Venture Beat - 13 Aug 2017 00:30
Tonight, GamesBeat will stream the first Games Industry Family Chicken Dinner Invitational Tournament for PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. This is an informal competition where developers and other people who work in the...
Oculus Connect 4 reveals first sessions and workshops, Lone Echo postmortem
Venture Beat - 12 Aug 2017 23:10
Oculus Connect 4 is just a few months away; the developer conference returns to the San Jose convention center on October 11 and October 12. We're expecting to see what's new with the company during a busy keynote speech...
Nvidia CEO talks cryptocurrency, AI, and the leisure economy
Venture Beat - 12 Aug 2017 21:25
Nvidia turned out another stellar financial result for the second quarter ended July 31. Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of the world’s biggest stand-alone maker of graphics chips, credited some big trends like the growth of PC ga...
A New Study Says Anxiety Can Help You Perform Better -- But Only If You Know How To Respond To It
Forbes - 12 Aug 2017 19:46
Anxiety doesn't have to hold you back. It's the way you think about anxiety that matters.
Why citation tracking startup Memosnag left Silicon Valley for Nebraska
Venture Beat - 12 Aug 2017 19:02
On Christmas Eve of 2015, Kim Perkins was helping to unpack a moving truck that had just brought her family from California to Omaha. Perkins and her husband, Lorenzo Staunovo Polacco, moved to the Midwest in the heart o...
Exposure channels nature's beauty and brutality into a stealth game
Venture Beat - 12 Aug 2017 18:15
PREVIEW: Don’t be fooled by Exposure’s sleek geometric look and minimalist soundtrack. It’s a tense game about hiding from predators, scurrying from one safe space to another, and changing colors for camouflage. It...
Here Be Dragons AR/VR studio gets $10 million funding from Discovery Communications
Venture Beat - 12 Aug 2017 17:00
You might not have heard of Here Be Dragons before, but you've probably heard of some of the projects the it’s worked on. Today, this VR and AR production studio is announcing the closure of a $10 million series A roun...
Dota 2 championships: 3 finalists battle for biggest slice of $24 million prize pool
Venture Beat - 12 Aug 2017 16:25
The International Dota 2 Championships is like the Super Bowl of esports, and it wraps up today with three finalists fighting for the lion’s share of a record $24 million prize pool. The Dota 2 event takes place starti...
OpenAI's bot beats top Dota 2 player so badly that he quits
Venture Beat - 12 Aug 2017 04:43
An artificial intelligence has beaten one of the world's top Dota 2 players in single combat today. Danil Ishutin, better known by his gaming handle "Dendi," threw in the towel in the middle of a second game against a bo...
Have a gaming mouse? Turn down your dang DPI
Venture Beat - 12 Aug 2017 04:13
If you’re only getting into PC gaming or playing competitively, you may have some misconceptions about how to get the most from your Razer DeathAdder Elite, HyperX Pulsefire, or other gaming mouse. That input device, w...
Heartland tech's growth could slow thanks to a decline in seed funding
Venture Beat - 12 Aug 2017 03:30
With 75 percent of venture capital money in the U.S. going to only three states — California, New York, and Massachusetts — it’s never been easy for startups in the middle of the country to raise money. But with mo...