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Yes, it’s time for the jokes about joysticks and treasure chests again. Fortnite, the world’s hottest online game, is getting the porn parody treatment. (Disclaimer: Not suitable for work) Woodrocket and Pornhub have...

Electronic Arts’ NBA Live 19 will include women in the create-a-player feature in its career mode. The latest entry in the developer’s basketball franchise will launch on September 7 for Xbox One and PlayStation 4. E...

The HoloSuit is a full-body tracker designed for VR and AR platforms. It's impressive, but expensive.

SpecialEffect’s third annual fundraiser One Special Day is coming up soon, and the U.K.-based nonprofit is inviting the industry to contribute their sales to the cause. This year’s event will be on September 28. In 2...

Bing Maps' new and improved routing API optimizes delivery routes based on actual road distances.

Veteran TV host and game journalist Scott Jones has had a lot of challenges in his life. None more so than in 2014, when he had a series of strokes that incapacitated him. It was a brush with death, and after it, he deci...

We're getting a first look at Magic Leap One's 2D and 3D user interfaces, including Landscape and Immersive apps, which were revealed in the company's latest developer documentation.

A majority of the public is fearful of self-driving cars, polls show. To allay those fears, startups and automakers would do well to remain transparent.

OPINION: Facebook and Twitter experienced double-digit stock declines this week after reporting earnings that Wall Street didn’t like. Here’s a headline that summarizes what’s happening with both companies: “Face...

Kixeye launched its Battle Pirates strategy game on Facebook seven years ago, but the game still has a loyal following of 100,000 players. The audience isn’t big enough to serve with Kixeye’s own internal technical s...

REVIEW: Semblance’s world wobbles and jiggles, but it’s a solid puzzle-platformer in a whimsical world that packs in tiny moments of triumph. It’s indie studio Nyamakop‘s debut title, and it started out as a stud...

Mobile and PC game publisher Nexon announced today that it is bringing Dynasty Warriors: Unleashed to Japan. Dynasty Warriors: Unleashed is the No. 658 ranked game in South Korea’s iOS App Store, according to App Annie...

DontNod Entertainment announced today that it is adding two new difficulty modes to its action role-playing game Vampyr, which came out for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on June 5. Story Mode de-emphasizes combat, maki...

Telegram‘s encrypted messaging service has proved more popular with users than with authoritarian governments, so it’s no shock that the developer is announcing a new service to help users get past a common governmen...

Mobcrush started out as a mobile game streaming company that let people stream from a smartphone. But it recently added its Mobcam tool to let creators and influencers broadcast to all of their social platforms at once. ...

Hong Kong regulators said they will offer 5G-ready cellular carriers free spectrum -- a strategy designed to keep consumer costs low and speed the rollout of services.

Twitter saw a slight dip in monthly active users during the second quarter of 2018, but exceeded revenue expectations. The number of monthly active users on Twitter dropped from 336 million in Q1 2018 to 335 million in Q...

GUEST: Ask anyone that has experienced a true, high-production virtual reality experience and nearly all can remember our “first time.” The immersive nature of the technology tends to evoke such a visceral response t...

(Reuters) — Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg's fortune took a more than $15 billion hit on Thursday, as the social media company suffered the biggest one-day wipeout in U.S. stock market history a day after exe...

Indie studio Shifting Tides’s debut game The Sojourn is both idyllic and sinister. In order to solve its puzzles and unravel a deeper story, players must swap between worlds of light and darkness. Shifting Tide has tea...

(Reuters) — Google launched a network of free Wi-Fi hotspots in Nigeria on Thursday, part of its effort to increase its presence in Africa's most populous nation. The U.S. technology firm, owned by Alphabet, has partne...

British game infrastructure company Improbable keeps doing the improbable. Today, the company says it has raised an additional $50 million in funding from Chinese game giant NetEase as part of a strategic partnership to ...