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Indie developer Christine Love‘s newest title Get in the Car, Loser! is a role-playing game that tells a queer coming-of-age story — all while on a free-wheeling roadtrip to take down a thousands-years-old evil. It�...

It’s time for another GamesBeat Decides podcast. This week, PC gaming editor Jeffrey Grubb and reviews editor Mike Minotti get together to talk about some games and the news. On this episode, the crew discusses virtual...

Five months ago, the nonprofit 1,000 Dreams Fund set up its BroadcastHER Grant to provide financial aid for women who broadcast on the livestreaming platform Twitch. It received more than 600 applications, and it has sel...

News emerged last week that Pixel 3 smartphones may come with a charging dock that will reportedly include a way to interact with Google Assistant. No details have been provided, but it wouldn't be surprising if the dock...

Rock Band creator Harmonix Music Systems said that Lineage creator NCSoft will publish its next game as part of a strategic partnership. The companies didn’t say what game that will be and noted it is still in “extre...

OPINION: Reviews of Microsoft’s Surface Go came out yesterday, and the results were mixed. There are a few reasons why that isn’t bad news for Microsoft, but the main explanation comes down to the company’s Surface...

If you love oceanic videography, you're going to love Hydrus VR, a submersible 8K virtual reality video system designed for professional filmmakers. The unit uses a total of 10 cameras to capture 8K, 4K, or stereoscopic ...

VB EVENT: Coming into this year, we were surprised to find no AI events for the marketing or growth agenda. So we planned Transform in SF on August 21 and 22, focused exclusively on real business results and applications...

OPINION: Blizzard has released a new cinematic for World of Warcraft ahead of the August 14 launch of its seventh expansion, Battle for Azeroth. It comes at a time when fans are up at arms over recent story developments,...

Here Technologies, the company behind the popular location platform and consumer navigation app, has announced a new extensive freemium pricing tier as it looks to entice more developers to use its location services. Whi...

Epic Games and Unity Technologies are locked in a battle for the hearts and minds of game developers. They both make game engines, or the tools used by game developers to make games that run on PCs, consoles, and mobile ...

Growing tired of your Amazon Echo or Google Home smart speaker? Pick up a replica of HAL-9000 from Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Oddysee' instead.

We take a look at how Amazon's Alexa does as a fashion assistant, why it can be a lot of fun to use the Echo Look, why it took Amazon a year to make the device generally available on the market, and why its fashion assis...

Tim Sweeney is quiet as CEOs go. But the head of Epic Games isn’t shy when it comes to expressing his opinions about the state of games, game development, and the need for open technology initiatives to ensure the indu...

Earlier this week, speculation spread that Fortnite wouldn’t be landing in the Google Play Store when it arrives on Android devices. Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney has confirmed that this is correct; the mobile version of...

Blade is delivering its Shadow cloud gaming service that turns ordinary machines into gaming powerhouses with its modern approach to a problem that industry pioneers tried to solve a decade ago. The difference between no...

EXCLUSIVE: Silicon Valley startup R2 uses big data tools to deliver trained AI models to businesses without development expertise.

Peloton, a fitness technology company that sells exercise bikes with screens for on-demand virtual classes, is raising a whopping $550 million in a series F round of funding led by TCV, with participation from most of Pe...

Revolution Software’s classic point-and-click adventure series Broken Sword started 22 years ago on PC, but it’s kept up with the times. The studio has remastered and remade the first two entries in the franchise for...

Hyas, a cybersecurity startup that’s setting out to help companies, researchers, and law enforcement personnel identify the perpetrators behind cyber attacks, has raised $6.2 million in a series A round of funding led ...

(Reuters) — Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook said on Thursday that the iPhone maker’s $1 trillion market capitalization was "not the most important measure" of the company's success but was instead a result of its focu...

Advanced Micro Devices said it will supply a semi-custom chip for Zhongshan Subor, a Chinese company that will make both a gaming PC and a game console for the Chinese market. Jack Huynh, corporate vice president and gen...