Startup News

Activision and the publisher’s Treyarch studio announced via Twitter today that the Blackout battle royale map of Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 will have an open beta test starting on September 14. Previously, the develope...

Techland announced that Dying Light: Bad Blood, the version of the zombie-fighting game that’s battle royale (dubbed “brutal royale”), will be available in September via Steam Early Access on the PC. After it exits...

Apple is ready to upgrade its low-end desktop computer, but is planning to focus on professionals rather than price-sensitive consumers. According to Bloomberg, Apple's first Mac mini update in four years will be more ex...

Electronic Arts announced that the open beta for Battlefield V will start on September 4 for early access folk and on September 6 for everyone else. The company made the announcement on stage at Nvidia’s pre-Gamescom e...

Nvidia unveiled its not-so-secret graphics chips for next-generation gaming computers. The Nvidia GeForce RTX 2000 series graphics cards include the GeForce RTX 2080, the RTX 2080, and the RTX 2070, based on Nvidia’s n...

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night‘s Kickstarter page revealed that the 2D action platformer is now coming out in 2019. The Castlevania spiritual successor was supposed to come out this year. Producer Koji “Iga” Iga...

One of the Apple Watch's marquee additions in watchOS 3, Emergency SOS, was actually stolen from a former supplier named Zomm, the company claims.

Game development outsourcing Keywords Studios has acquired Studio Gobo and Electric Square as part of its plan to offer worldwide development services for game publishers. The deals substantially expand the company’s p...

Microsoft today announced a few deadlines for developers who have built Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 apps. The Microsoft Store will stop accepting new apps with Windows Phone 8.x or earlier or Windows 8/8.1 packages (XA...

It’s time to test just how good of a capitalist you can be with Anno 1800, the new 19th-century city-building game from Ubisoft that debuts in February 2019 on the PC. Anno 1800 is the seventh game in franchise, and th...

Developer OtherSide Entertainment announced today that Underworld: Ascendant is launching for PC on November 15. It will cost $30. The role-playing game is a spiritual successor to the Ultima Underworld series, a big inn...

ANALYSIS: Three years ago, it was hard for Apple to convince customers to spend even $349 on the entry-level Apple Watch, say nothing of absurd $10,000 to $17,000 18K gold Edition models. But I expect that the story will...

Facebook AI Research is working with NYU School of Medicine to make MRI scans up to 10 times faster through artificial intelligence. AI models being used in the fastMRI project were trained by 3 million MRI scans of the ...

Fitbit has announced its latest exercise tracker wearable: the Fitbit Charge 3. Available for preorder today, Fitbit Charge 3 starts at $150 and ships in October. The company’s Fitbit Labs research division also announ...

Genvid Technologies has raised $10 million in funding for its interactive streaming engine. The money came from Horizons Ventures, the private investment arm of Hong Kong business magnate Li Ka-shing. The interactive str...

Overwolf and Intel have teamed up to create a $7 million fund to invest in apps and mods for hardcore gamers. The idea is to support the PC gaming community with a fund for developers working on game applications, modifi...

EXCLUSIVE: Females are 79 percent more likely to complete an in-app purchase after installing a mobile game, according to a report about mobile games by a mobile user acquisition firm Liftoff. That’s just one piece of ...

Cashierless store Zippin will open its doors to customers in San Francisco for the first time this week, beating Amazon Go to become the first cashierless store in the city. The first Go store opened in Seattle in Januar...

Radar. Lidar. Cameras. They're the components that help give autonomous vehicles from Uber, GM's Cruise Automation, Google spinoff Waymo, and countless others a sense of their surroundings. But Tarik Bolat, CEO of WaveSe...

Following a sharp drop in Tesla’s stock at the end of last week, investors are set to drive it down further when trading begins today amid ongoing concerns about the mental state of CEO Elon Musk. Tesla’s stock fell ...

BEIJING (By Cate Cadell, Reuters) – Apple says it has pulled illegal lottery apps from its App Store in China amid tightening regulation and a barrage of criticism from state media. According to state media, the compan...

Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science AI Lab (CSAIL) are developing methods for using wireless radio signals to detect sensors inside the human body. The ReMix system could be used to find ingestible microchip implan...