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June was a big month for the video game industry thanks to the Electronic Entertainment Expo trade show. That’s the event that is supposed to get people excited about the future of games … and then everyone went out ...

The games industry brought in $1.08 billion in June, up 25 percent year-over-year, according to the industry-tracking firm The NPD Group. Nintendo’s Mario Tennis Aces made quite a racket when it debuted on June 22, sho...

It’s been a year-and-a-half since Nintendo brought its strategic role-playing game Fire Emblem: Heroes to iOS and Android. Since then, it’s rocketed past the publisher’s other mobile titles: Super Mario Run and Ani...

Valve announced today that is targeting a November 28 release for its digital card game, Artifact. The $20 game will be available on Steam, Valve’s digital PC gaming store. Card games are an important and growing marke...

Popular news aggregation and discussion site Reddit was hacked in mid-June, the company disclosed today, exposing some users' current email addresses and a database containing older accounts.

The founders at Survios are true believers in virtual reality, and they’ve poured a lot of effort into the hit VR games Raw Data and Sprint Vector. Now they’re switching from games to something more like an immersive...

Riot Games is sort of a misnomer. After all, the studio only has the one game with its megapopular and lucrative multiplayer online battle arena League of Legends. That Riot Game, singular, has paid the bills (and genera...

VB EVENT: Hopper, a travel app that tells you the right time to book your flight to get the lowest price, says it has leveraged AI to drive significant growth over the last two years. Already, its AI powered notification...

A new device called SuperSpeedBlazer promises to boot a Mac into Windows in only 10 seconds -- with a few caveats.

Sega of America announced today that Ian Curran is its new president and chief operating officer. Curran has worked for major gaming companies like THQ and Acclaim Entertainment. Curran’s last position was at Gioteck, ...

WhatsApp today announced the launch of the Business API, which allows large businesses to manage and send non-promotional messages to customers — like appointment reminders, shipping info, or event tickets — for a fi...

Panstasz, a one-person game studio based in Poland, has revealed World of Horror, a Lovecraftian role-playing game coming out for PlayStation 4, Switch, and PC in 2019. “The Old Gods are reawakening, clawing their way ...

Samsung today announced the Galaxy S4, its latest high-end Android tablet, and the budget-oriented Galaxy Tab A 10.5. Here's everything you need to know.

Lenovo says that it will be the first company to launch a 5G smartphone, using a currently unannounced Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 chip.

Japanese clothing retailer Uniqlo is launching Uniqlo IQ, its own digital shopping assistant. Here's everything you need to know.

LittleBits's Avengers Hero Inventor Kit puts kids in the shoes of their favorite superhero -- and teaches them how to code, too.

HP has unveiled a lineup of computers for retailers and hotel operators under the new family brand name HP Engage. The new systems include HP Engage Go Convertible, HP Engage Go Mobile, HP Engage Flex Pro, and HP Engage ...

Move over blockchain. Hedera Hashgraph has raised $100 million via a future token sale from institutional investors in a bid to create a new commerce network based on its “hashgraph consensus” technology. That’s a ...

Menlo Park-based venture capital (VC) firm Felicis Ventures has closed its sixth and biggest fund to date. At $270 million, the Felicis Ventures VI fund is around a third larger than its predecessor, which closed at $200...

EXCLUSIVE: NetApp's Ontap AI, a data architecture designed with artificial intelligence in mind, is powered by Nvidia's cutting-edge DGX-2 platform.

SPONSORED: Acquiring a home is a complicated, long-term process. Some young professionals are not necessarily looking at buying a property at the moment but would like to invest or feel they have invested in the real est...

Instagram and Facebook are encouraging users to think more carefully about how much time they’re spending on their apps with the launch of new activity-tracking tools. Today, Facebook announced that it is adding “act...