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PREVIEW: I suck at Cuphead. Let’s get this out of the way. But in my defense, the run-and-gun platformer from Studio MDHR and Microsoft is difficult. The old-time cartoon style game comes out on September 29 on Windows...

Blizzard announced massive changes to one of Overwatch‘s most popular characters, Mercy. The healer is losing her ability to resurrect all dead allies nearby. Overwatch director Jeff Kaplan explained the reasoning behi...

Gazillion launched a Defenders-themed event for its Xbox One and PlayStation 4 action role-playing game Marvel Heroes Omega. It introduces Elektra as its 41st hero, plus it adds cosmetic items for Daredevil, Luke Cage, I...

VB LIVE: Chatbots and intelligent assistants can be essential customer engagement tools, and each has distinct advantages. So which do you need? Join the Director of Developer Relations at Slack and others for insight in...

Traditional sports may have an esports problem now that many young people are flocking to competitive online games. But it seems esports has a traditional sports problem as well. World Electronic Sports Games (WESG) spli...

Giant tech companies continue to take over the Heartland with data centers, as Apple announced today that it will spend $1.375 billion to build a data center in the state of Iowa. Construction on the data center is expec...

If you’re looking to get into the business of making games, you’ll encounter a lot of people telling you how difficult that is. But resources to guide you past those obstacles are rare. That’s where The Gamedev Bus...

GUEST: Iowa City-based IDx knows the importance of keeping tech talent in Iowa. The medical device company is entering into clinical trials for their AI technology that automates the detection of diabetic retinopathy in ...

Descartes Labs, a company that provides information about Earth derived from satellite imagery, announced today that it raised $30 million in a series B round led by LA-based March Capital. Crosslink Capital, Cultivian S...

Ezetap wants to enable businesses in India to accept any form of payment and today announced funding of $16 million to further that goal. Jonathan Soros' investment firm JS Capital Management led the round, with particip...

En Masse Entertainment announced today that is bringing Closers to North America and Europe. Closers is an online action role-playing game for PC with an anime look and beat-’em-up mechanics. Closed alpha tests for the...

Smart locks are getting smarter and more targeted. Otto is announcing that it has created a secure digital lock designed to address the needs of families. With no lock to pick or keypad to attack, Otto removed the primar...

Tanzania is leading the way on drone deliveries as the east African country looks to provide easier access to emergency medical supplies. The Tanzanian government has announced that it will use more than 100 drones from ...

Eleague aims to show that there are folks at the NBA who are bona fide esports fans and not just fans of its estimated $696 million of revenue in 2017. The final episode of the docuseries Road to The International Dota 2...

Google has announced a new firewall feature that allows developers and administrators using App Engine to easily restrict access from specific traffic sources. Google App Engine (GAE), a managed platform within the broad...

Travis and Stewart interview Scott Stratten, the man behind “unmarketing,” in this week's episode of VB Engage, as part of the Unbounce CTA Conference interview series in Vancouver. Scott reveals some of his greatest...

eThink Education Announces Partnership With Totara eThnk Education is one of Moodle’s top certified partners. The Baltimore based company helps educational institutions K-20 implement the open source Moodle learning ma...

(Reuters) — China Life and Baidu will form a 7 billion yuan ($1 billion) private equity fund, targeting internet and other technology investments, China Life’s listed arm said on Thursday. The Baidu Fund Partnership ...

Realizeit Is An Adaptive Learning Platform That Helps Students Realize Their Potential And Become Successful By a quick show of hands, who reading this was one of those students that wasn’t working to their full potent...

The GIF-sharing platform Megacool is officially out of beta. Its API can work in mobile games to capture 10-second clips and share directly to Twitter, Facebook, and SMS text message. Starting today, its integration will...

Make Your e-Learning Pop With elearning brothers To call elearning brothers the template forest of elearning would be a gross misrepresentation. With over 2 million templates and assets available to customers, that’s j...

Google has revealed that it’s extending its public Wi-Fi service, called Google Station, beyond India. The internet giant first unveiled the Google Station initiative back in September 2015, announcing plans to install...