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Valve announced today that it's now shipping Knuckles EV2 development kits to SteamVR developers, including substantially redesigned versions of the motion and finger-sensing controllers.

The game industry was up 13 percent year-over-year in May, generating $685 million from May 2017’s $607 million, according to the industry-tracking firm The NPD Group. The growth is thanks mostly to hardware and access...

Mark Zuckerberg became $1.7 billion richer on Wednesday after Facebook stock rose 2.3% in regular trading on the news that Instagram is rolling out a new feature: Instagram television. The bump makes the Facebook founder...

The best "vetrepreneurs" also have a secret: they possess the humility to understand that they don't know everything, and they need to partner with more experienced entrepreneurs to win.

PayPal has acquired its second startup in as many days, as the payments giant announced today that it was snapping up machine learning-powered fraud detection startup Simility. The transaction is valued at $120 million, ...

The Cyberpunk 2077 demo still had another half-hour left, but I already knew I wanted this game. I was busy writing during the Xbox media briefing prior to the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles last week, so I...

The leaders of this fast-growing cloud computing firm demonstrate that success is as much about old-fashioned people skills as cutting-edge technology.

Earlier this week, the World Health Organization labeled “gaming disorder” as a mental health condition, describing it as a harmful addiction that “takes precedence over other life interests and daily activities.�...

The meat industry has gotten a bad rap for being a drain on the environment. Meet the couple behind EPIC Provisions who's trying to change that with their mission-based brand.

PREVIEW: I’ve been excited about Bend Studio’s Days Gone since I first saw it at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in 2016. But the game has its skeptics (including some members of the GamesBeat staff) who think...

The game merchandise company Fangamer has teamed up with the retro gaming podcast Retronauts to create the Flip Grip, a device that makes it easy to play the Switch in a vertical screen orientation while in portable mode...

Hitman 2 will thrive on larger crowd sizes when the assassination game starring Agent 47 debuts later this year. That will both please and vex players, as they can hide in crowds more easily, but it will also be harder t...

Maria Salamanca is a Principal at Unshackled Ventures, a fund that fills a unique space in the entrepreneurial ecosystem, funding teams with immigrant founders at the earliest stages. Maria is a leader in the pre-seed in...

Fortnite is one of the biggest games in the world because it is bringing people together online, and that means a lot of new players are looking for audio headsets to help them communicate with their friends and family. ...

Microsoft's Bing launched a mobile version of its Visual Search tool that pulls up relevant pictures, product listings, and text snippets through photos your phone captures. In our testing, there's room for improvement.

If Vivendi had succeeded in its hostile takeover of Ubisoft, you can bet the French video game publisher wouldn’t still have 14,000 employees, including 12,000 game developers. Tencent came in as a white knight investo...

Artificial intelligence has been shaking up the marketing world for the last few years, helping automate menial, repetitive tasks, inform better creative decisions, and predict revenue projections. But many of the tools ...

When I’m sitting in traffic, it seems like every other car around me has a Lyft or Uber sticker … or sometimes both. And back when I lived in Brooklyn, the subway was papered with advertisements for on-demand freelan...

Google Home smart speakers can now answer follow-up questions without hearing “Ok Google.” Called Continued Conversation by Google, the new feature is available today for Home, Home Mini, and Home Max smart speakers ...

AT&T has a cost-efficient plan to build a 5G network: use a $6.5-billion U.S. contract to upgrade cell towers with hardware for a national emergency first responder network, then upgrade the software to add 5G support.

VB LIVE: To find out how highly accurate, real-time maps can revolutionize everything from autonomous cars to connected cities, catch up on this VB Live event featuring Forrester principal analyst Jennifer Belissent, Tom...

Cape Analytics, a company that meshes computer vision with geospatial imagery to bring property intelligence to U.S. insurance companies, has raised $17 million in a series B round of funding led by insurance-centric VC ...