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EXCLUSIVE: KamaGames said that its Pokerist and Blackjackist social casino games helped propel revenues up 53 percent in the first half of 2018, compared to the first six months of 2017. That’s good, considering the Ir...

Nexon and Marvel Entertainment debuted the first gameplay trailer for Marvel Battle Lines, a new strategic card battle game featuring hundreds of iconic Marvel Super Heroes and Super Villains. The companies revealed the ...

The Xbox division helped Microsoft grow its bottom line during the fourth quarter of its fiscal 2018, the company revealed during its quarterly financial report. Revenue from the video game business was $2.29 billion dur...

As games journalists, we are experts in all things. Here at GamesBeat, I believe we are in the record books for something involving Cuphead, but I haven’t looked into that recently. But our secret shame is that maybe w...

FEATURE: The Assassin’s Creed franchise is among the biggest of the major blockbusters in the gaming industry, and building them is only getting more complicated as each entry in the series grows larger than its predec...

Fresh off the heels of yesterday’s report that Samsung plans to release a foldable version of its Galaxy smartphone codenamed “Winner,” a recently published Samsung patent appears to show the device. Unfortunately,...

VB EVENT: Olay, the popular skin care brand, started using AI to make recommendations to its millions of users almost two years ago, and says it has doubled the company's sales conversion rate overall. It’s just the la...

Developer Stoic and publisher Versus Evil announced today that they’re partnering with HyperRPG (a community that focuses on livestreaming) for a four-part tabletop role-playing game series based on The Banner Saga. Th...

Developer Seriously‘s Best Fiends mobile game isn’t known as well as its Helsinki neighbor Rovio’s Angry Birds. But Seriously continues to take a page from the Angry Birds playbook by creating animated cartoons bas...

ANALYSIS: With 5G only months away from debuting in the U.S., carriers have quietly -- and not-so-quietly -- been upgrading their towers to prepare for higher-speed 5G devices. Now OpenSignal is quantifying what those up...

Uber has announced plans to help drivers earn extra cash by allowing them to sell goods to passengers during trips. The new offering comes as the ride-hailing giant revealed an official tie-up with in-car commerce startu...

Evolv, a security startup, announced that it'll deploy scanners in Oakland International airport this year.

SPONSORED: Ashen is a single-player action-RPG masquerading as a multiplayer game, or maybe it's the other way around? It's blurry, like the line between players and nonplayer characters. In Ashen, the players are the N...

Humaneyes Technologies has announced a follow-up to its Vuze VR camera, one that captures both 360° (2D) and stereoscopic VR180 (3D) videos and photos. The Vuze XR camera, which will cost around $400 when it launches la...

Counterfeiters have never been afraid to brazenly knock off Apple's products, but they've rarely succeeded to the extent of a $100 iPhone X knockoff recently discovered in Shenzhen, China.

Today IBM Watson Health and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs extended a partnership aimed at providing personalized treatment for cancer patients.

Really Good Stuff, a subsidiary of Excelligence Learning and a big supplier of educational tools for teachers, has teamed up with Fingerprint to offer its mobile app Really Good Stuff Digital Learning Collection. The com...

Funding for financial startups around the world continued to set a blistering pace in the most recent quarter, scoring $20 billion for companies seeking to disrupt established banking and payment systems. The surge was l...

Inscilico Medicine and A2A Pharmaceuticals launched Consortium.AI, a new venture founded with the goal of applying advances in artificial intelligence (AI) to cutting-edge drug discovery.

Apple’s AI and search teams are continuing to churn, as Siri cofounder Tom Gruber and search chief Vipul Ved Prakash have left the company. As originally noticed by The Information, their departures come as John Gianna...

Renovo, a mobility software startup, announced it's partnering with Swedish company NIRA Dynamics to bring road roughness monitoring to autonomous fleets of cars.

Aerospace giant Airbus today launched the new version of its humpback-shaped airplane, known as a Beluga, into the skies for the very first time. The launch comes as the company takes steps to overhaul its manufacturing ...