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Sony used Dreams to make fun animated sequences for E3 briefing
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2018 04:50
In between trailers, Sony’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) event featured little animated scenes with adorable creatures playing musical instruments. These were all created by Media Molecule’s Dreams, which is mo...
Death Stranding teaser is ... y'know what? Just watch the trailer
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2018 04:05
Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding showed up at Sony’s PlayStation media briefing prior to the Electronic Entertainment Expo trade show again, and it was just the best, dumbest, and weirdest stuff you can imagine … and...
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate hands-on -- It's way more than a Smash 4 port
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2018 23:59
PREVIEW: I thought that Super Smash Bros. for Wii U was pretty close to being the perfect Smash Bros. game. I wasn’t sure how Nintendo could improve it besides just adding more things like new characters and levels. An...
U.S. judge rules AT&T can acquire Time Warner for $85 billion
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2018 23:06
(Reuters) — AT&T won approval from a U.S. court on Tuesday to buy Time Warner Inc for $85 billion, allowing AT&T to compete with internet companies that dominate digital advertising and providing new sources of revenue...
Need A Challenge? NYCI Creates Extraordinary Conductors (And Ingenious PR)
Forbes - 12 Jun 2018 22:53
Hints from a set of world class musical performers on surmounting the biggest PR and fundraising challenges in running a successful nonprofit (and changing the world as you do).
Apple changes App Store rules to cut data collection on your friends
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2018 22:24
Apple has patched a little-known App Store loophole that enabled developers to harvest data on iOS users’ contacts, thereby limiting third-party access to potentially unprotected sources of personal information. Previo...
Asssassin's Creed: Odyssey won't let you romance Socrates, so what's the point?
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2018 22:21
Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey is the culmination of Ubisoft’s efforts to turn its historical playground adventures into full role-playing experiences. The publisher started that effort with Origins, and now Odyssey is ov...
Space Pirate Trainer will turn PSVR gamers into Star-Lord in 2018
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2018 22:01
First demonstrated for HTC’s Vive before hitting the Oculus Rift and Windows Mixed Reality platforms, I-Illusions’ arcade-style VR game Space Pirate Trainer lets you suit up as a Peter Quill/Star-Lord-alike to fight ...
Tesla lays off 9% of its workforce in pursuit of profitability
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2018 21:46
(Reuters) — Electric car maker Tesla is cutting several thousand jobs across the company as it seeks to reduce costs and become profitable without endangering the critical production ramp-up for its Model 3 sedan. In a...
How major retailers are using AI to keep brick-and-mortar alive
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2018 21:10
GUEST: In 2017, 7,000 retail businesses ceased operations, and 3,800 retail stores have already announced plans to close in 2018. To survive, retailers must have the right technology to derive the right insights. Here ar...
Author Interview: The CEO's Guide To Marketing
Forbes - 12 Jun 2018 20:20
Lonny Kocina, author of The CEO's Guide To Marketing (Maple Island 2017), shares details of his SAM 6 process to boosting sales and building a top shelf brand.
Nintendo's Smash Bros.-heavy E3 Direct hid an anemic 2018 Switch lineup
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2018 20:19
OPINION: Wise Nintendo fans learned long ago to temper their expectations for Nintendo’s Electronic Entertainment Expo announcements. The company famously did away with spectacle-class media events years ago, replacing...
Metro Exodus puts you on a train journey through nuclear winter
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2018 20:05
Huw Beynon remembered doing a demo for me back in 2011, when Metro: Last Light debuted. And there was Deep Silver’s head of global brand management again when I recently played a demo of Metro Exodus, the third install...
Global SMEs Set To Benefit From Blockchain-Based Financial Services Marketplace
Forbes - 12 Jun 2018 19:56
Bright, a blockchain-based financial service marketplace founded by AMPP Group, is on a mission to assist small- and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in emerging markets by providing credit and loans where they need it m...
Everything Nintendo announced during its E3 2018 Direct
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2018 19:27
The Switch developer showed off sequels, add-ons, and new properties for its home and handheld consoles at E3 2018.
Google taps neural nets for better offline translation in 59 languages
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2018 19:16
Google’s online translations have been powered by neural machine translation (NMT) since 2016, and today the company is rolling out its neural net-driven approach to more accurate, natural-sounding translations for Goo...
Overcooked 2 chefs it up with online co-op against the night of the living bread
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2018 19:00
In the 2016 party game Overcooked, the culinary world triumphed over the Giant Spaghetti Monster. But in Overcooked 2, a new ghoulish threat has appeared — the unbread, rising out of the ground and marching to destroy ...
Google disables inline installation for Chrome extensions
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2018 19:00
Google today announced that Chrome will no longer support inline installation of extensions. New extensions lose inline installation starting today, existing extensions will lose the ability in three months, and in early...
Dragon Ball Fighterz blasts onto Nintendo Switch later this year
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2018 18:58
During Nintendo’s E3 stream, developer Arc System Works and publisher Bandai Namco confirmed that their hit fighting game Dragon Ball Fighterz is coming to the Nintendo Switch later this year. Dragon Ball Fighterz debu...
Killer Queen Black comes to Nintendo Switch and PC in 2019
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2018 18:55
The arcade hit Killer Queen is finally coming to home video for the first time on Nintendo’s Switch and the PC with Killer Queen Black. This is an 8-player game where one person on each team takes on the role of the qu...
Indie hit Hollow Knight is on Switch today
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2018 18:47
Nintendo revealed that the indie Metroidvania Hollow Knight is coming to Switch today during its Electronic Entertainment Expo event today in Los Angeles. Hollow Knight came out for PC last year. This is the indie game�...
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate hits Nintendo Switch on December 7
Venture Beat - 12 Jun 2018 18:47
Nintendo finished up its Direct video event today by revealing that the next entry in its multiplayer fighting game series is dropping December 7. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is hitting the Switch before the end of the ye...