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Activision Blizzard announced today during its financial results for 2018’s second quarter that Overwatch League is adding two new teams: Atlanta and Guangzhou, China. Overwatch League is a major investment from Blizza...

Activision Blizzard released its financial results for the second quarter of 2018, and in its report the company revealed that preorders for the next Hearthstone expansion — The Boomsday Project — are tracking furthe...

Some people might be worried about the impact of Fortnite on Activision Blizzard, but the storm hasn’t hit yet. The big company behind Call of Duty, Overwatch, and Destiny reported a strong second quarter as it readies...

The subscription platform Patreon enables people to directly support creators (game makers, streamers, authors, and more) with monthly donations. But due to processing issues, a large chunk of these payments were decline...

After roughly two years, Motorola took the wraps off its 5G Moto Mod -- an accessory that adds 5G cellular capabilities to its new Moto Z3 smartphone. Both start as U.S. exclusives for Verizon, with the Moto Z3 arriving ...

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Mobile will get a new battle royale mission based on Paramount Pictures’ and Skydance Media’s Mission Impossible: Fallout film, the blockbuster Tom Cruise movie that debuted last week. P...

The Yakuza series finally came to PC yesterday when Sega released the prequel Yakuza 0 on Steam. If you’ve already dug into it and are hoping that the publisher is planning to bring more Yakuza adventures to your compu...

Gaming intelligence group SuperData has released a new report on the digital card game market, noting that it expects this segment to earn $1.5 billion in 2018 and that this should increase to $2 billion by 2020. Hearths...

VB EVENT: Tom Pinckney, VP of applied research at eBay, AI-powered improvements in its search rankings, knowledge of its inventory, and other areas are driving more than $1 billion per quarter in incremental sales on its...

Following its release of record third-quarter 2018 earnings on Tuesday, Apple today became the first U.S. company to hit a $1 trillion market capitalization. Apple's stock approached the milestone months ago, leading som...

2K announced today that its basketball game NBA 2K18 has now sold over 10 million copies. This sets a new record for the near 20-year-old franchise. NBA 2K18 launched on September 17, 2017 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Sw...

SPONSORED: People have the a naive conception of how the nascent blockchain and smart contract world will work; in reality, smart contracts will not be as neat and flawless as you expect. In reality, the current state of...

In their last year at Johannesburg’s University of Witwatersrand‘s game design program, Cukia “Sugar” Kimani and Ben Myres began working on their thesis project. Kimani had created a rough prototype in which the ...

ANALYSIS: Virtual assistants are all the rage in the technology world, from Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri to Microsoft’s Cortana and Alibaba’s AliGenie. While nuances separate their individual capabilities, the...

PREVIEW: Though it’s a ton of fun to leap through the air and web baddies, the thing I love most about Spider-Man is New York City. I lived in Brooklyn for eight or nine years, and no matter how many tacos I get to eat...

Effective October 1, Apple will stop paying publishers affiliate commissions for both apps and in-app purchases from its App Stores, a move that independent app reviewers believe will kill their sites.

Halla I/O leverages AI to deliver food recommendations to grocery store shoppers and food delivery app users.

The tablet market has now declined year-over-year for 15 quarters straight. Q2 2018 saw a 13.5 percent year-over-year decline: 33.0 million units shipped worldwide, compared to 38.2 million units in the same quarter last...

Nexon‘s third-person action role-playing game Darkness Rises has been downloaded more than 10 million times on mobile devices since June 20. Nexon is making its bid to create hardcore role-playing games on mobile devic...

REVIEW: Should you buy a Microsoft Surface Go for $399? Well, it will really cost you $500, and you should expect some tradeoffs.

(Reuters) — Apple is speaking with Chinese telecom firms to find ways to reduce spam received through its messaging service, a spokeswoman said, days after state media alleged it was allowing illegal content on its pla...

Cisco is buying Ann Arbor-based Duo Security for $2.35 billion in cash and assumed equity awards, the IT giant announced today. Duo Security was valued at about $1.17 billion as of its last funding round. The company is ...