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Donkey Kong gets his own Christmas special in the form of a fan-made arcade remix
Venture Beat - 7 Dec 2017 03:47
It’s the season for holiday specials, but game developers don’t make many of these for their properties. Sure, you can go back and play Sega’s Christmas Nights or dabble in the occasional online event, but now you ...
Hearthstone: Kobolds & Catacomb's Dungeon Runs is a win for Blizzard
Venture Beat - 7 Dec 2017 23:10
Hearthstone’s new Kobolds & Catacombs expansion launched today for PC, iOS, and mobile. But the 135 new cards aren’t the most interesting thing to come to Blizzard’s free-to-play hit. Along with the new set, Blizza...
Saber Interactive: Classic shooters show off technical chops
Venture Beat - 7 Dec 2017 23:50
SPONSORED: Presented by Intel With Quake Champions, Saber Interactive has set itself the task to make a modern Quake: frenetic and crazy as it ever was, but with larger-than-life champions, each with their own hooks and ...
Brown University Will End Student Loans Next Fall
Forbes - 7 Dec 2017 22:15
Brown will end student loans.
EU to intervene in Microsoft's U.S. Supreme Court foreign email battle
Venture Beat - 7 Dec 2017 22:11
(Reuters) — The European Union is to make a submission to the U.S. Supreme Court in its hearing of the U.S. Department of Justice's appeal against a ruling which prevented prosecutors from gaining access to emails held...
Facebook Instant Games gets livestreams -- Angry Birds, multiplayer video chat to come
Venture Beat - 7 Dec 2017 22:00
Facebook launched Instant Games on its Messenger platform earlier this year with 20 games. It’s since grown its library to 70, including arcade classics like Tetris as well as modern scrolling shooters BlackStorm Labs�...
UVify's 100 MPH Draco Racing Drone Helps Beginner Drone Racers Get Started
Forbes - 7 Dec 2017 21:33
Here's a racing drone you can actually fly out the box this Christmas.
Overwatch's Winter Wonderland event returns with new Mei content
Venture Beat - 7 Dec 2017 21:11
It’s beginning to look a lot like seasonal-event time for online games, and Overwatch is showing up with the return of its fan-favorite Winter Wonderland holiday festival. This will once again cover the King’s Row ma...
3 reasons U.S. tech firms are hoarding unprecedented piles of cash
Venture Beat - 7 Dec 2017 21:02
If you ever dreamed that the technology economy was a magical world of startups disrupting this or that sector, then get ready for a dose of reality. Fresh evidence that technology is consolidating around a handful of la...
Consumer Catalysts: 2017's Top Dealmakers and Influencers in the Consumer Industry
Forbes - 7 Dec 2017 20:10
Consumer Catalysts shines the light on the other side of market--on the investors, CEOs, merchandisers, editors, reporters and bankers helping make emerging brands pop.
Google launches Change the Game diversity initiative for women in mobile games
Venture Beat - 7 Dec 2017 20:00
Google is launching its Change the Game program, a diversity initiative for starting a dialogue about women who play and make mobile games. It also partnered with market researcher Newzoo on a study about people’s beha...
Kubernetes 1.9 launches with guaranteed stability for key features
Venture Beat - 7 Dec 2017 20:00
Kubernetes 1.9 launched today, bringing customers of the open source container orchestration system stable tools for running important applications. This should make it more attractive for enterprises and other businesse...
Xbox Live is down and has taken many games with it
Venture Beat - 7 Dec 2017 19:54
Xbox One owners and PC players are encountering connection errors with the Xbox Live service, according to a number of complaints on social media. Microsoft has also updated its Xbox Live status site to confirm problems ...
Why Paying Employees To Volunteer Is Good For Business
Forbes - 7 Dec 2017 19:25
Community service has always been part of the imageOne story, but it wasn't until we offered our team members a paid volunteer day off that we truly experienced its impact. Today, our Community Day program is an integral...
5 lessons U.S. startup communities should learn from 2017
Venture Beat - 7 Dec 2017 19:20
GUEST: At Engine, we spend our days championing policies and initiatives that support startups. As we entered 2017 amid a new presidential administration and a flurry of media coverage over the economic distress of Middl...
How Millennials Can Overcome Stereotypes (According To One Member Of The Forbes 30 Under 30 List)
Forbes - 7 Dec 2017 18:32
Millennials often get a bad reputation in the workplace, but CEO Nick Candito, a millennial himself, explains how they can overcome it.
Amplifying New Voices will train diverse game creators to be industry speakers
Venture Beat - 7 Dec 2017 18:30
Amplifying New Voices is launching its third year of hands-on training and boot camp for diverse people in the gaming industry. The group has opened applications and nominations for its latest batch of trainees. The boot...
Silicon Valley money isn't enough to create new tech hubs
Venture Beat - 7 Dec 2017 18:30
ANALYSIS: When Carisa Miklusak launched AI-enabled staffing platform Tilr two years ago, she and her two cofounders decided on Cincinnati, Ohio as their company’s headquarters, thanks to the city’s large concentratio...
Microsoft taps Heptio's Ark technology for managed Kubernetes backup
Venture Beat - 7 Dec 2017 18:20
Microsoft announced today that it's working with Heptio to back up multi-container clusters managed by its Azure Kubernetes Service. AKS will use Ark, Heptio's open source utility for managing disaster recovery and backu...
FETC 2018 Preview: ContentKeeper Is Safeguarding The Complex World Of K-12 Learning
Nibletz - 7 Dec 2017 18:05
Schools Actually Have Very Complex Cyber Security Needs, ContentKeeper Keeps Them Protected When you think about industries with very complex cyber security needs, you probably don’t think about elementary, middle and ...
The IndieBeat: How Studio Oleomingus is crafting its Indian post-modern fairy tale
Venture Beat - 7 Dec 2017 18:05
For the last three years, Indian indie studio Studio Oleomingus has been crafting its first game, a post-modern fairy tale called Somewhere. It’s gifted the internet with occasional peeks into its magic realist world o...
Hey game developers: Enter to win an iBUYPOWER Revolt 2 and more!
Venture Beat - 7 Dec 2017 17:50
SPONSORED: Presented by Intel Games like Grand Theft Auto and Resident Evil set the bar for commercial success, and indie gamers are increasingly rising to the occasion. But it requires sophisticated tech to develop, cas...