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Ousted Telltale CEO Kevin Bruner comments on studio's fate
Venture Beat - 21 Sep 2018 22:50
The cofounder and former chief executive officer of Telltale Games has posted a public statement about the studio’s reported layoffs and potential closure. Kevin Bruner started Telltale in 2004, but new investors helpe...
The Walking Dead game creator Telltale Games lays off most of staff (updated)
Venture Beat - 21 Sep 2018 22:37
The Walking Dead game series creator Telltale Games has laid off a large part of its staff and may be in danger of shutting down. Gamasutra reported the news first, but the details were vague about whether a shutdown wil...
AI helps Pixeldrive cut photo file sizes without substantially affecting quality
Venture Beat - 21 Sep 2018 22:30
Typical compression schemes strip data away from files, and when it comes to photos, the results are often splotches, color banding, and other unpleasant artifacts. Try this experiment: Take a snapshot with your smartpho...
Amazon Echo Show hands-on: More than a tablet glued to a speaker
Venture Beat - 21 Sep 2018 20:06
A common criticism of smart speakers with a screen is that they’re just a tablet with a voice and some speakers. The entire concept of this genre of devices began with the Echo Show in 2017, and is now spreading to Goo...
ProBeat: Amazon is throwing Alexa at the wall to see what sticks
Venture Beat - 21 Sep 2018 19:30
OPINION: Amazon’s Alexa event yesterday had a stupid amount of announcements, no matter how you count them. The number of new products was in the double digits, as was the quantity of new Alexa features, and the compan...
California Cup will create Overwatch esports rivalry between Northern and Southern California
Venture Beat - 21 Sep 2018 19:00
When the global Overwatch League has its off season, a regional esports rivalry for Blizzard’s Overwatch video game will take over. The Overwatch League’s California teams are creating the California Cup, which will ...
Google is bringing support for all Android apps to Daydream VR
Venture Beat - 21 Sep 2018 18:45
Google is continuing to push its Daydream VR platform forward, the company announced today, as it’s making moves that expand the app support and usability of its devices. Describing three new features as “experimenta...
Contest alert! Enter the "Open Your World Just Cause 4 Giveaway" now
Venture Beat - 21 Sep 2018 17:43
SPONSORED: Presented by Intel The Just Cause 4 launch is just a couple of months away, and it’s going to be a doozy. Rico Rodriguez is about to land in Solis, the land of oppression, injustice, and world-altering weath...
SeaWorld yanks VR from roller coaster because of wait times
Venture Beat - 21 Sep 2018 17:07
Virtual reality headsets have become popular location-based entertainment solutions over the past year or two, but there’s a key impediment to their wider use in theme parks — they dramatically slow down snaking line...
The DeanBeat: Console games aren't dead yet
Venture Beat - 21 Sep 2018 17:00
We all remember headlines about how console games are dead or dying. Mobile games, PC games, Android settop boxes, virtual reality, and cloud gaming were all going to kill off consoles. After checking out Rockstar’s am...
T-Mobile details 5G home broadband plan to undercut Charter and Comcast
Venture Beat - 21 Sep 2018 15:53
In making a case for merging with Sprint, T-Mobile said in May that it hoped to leverage the smaller carrier’s network to offer “fixed 5G” service — home broadband internet — in a challenge to cable companies. ...
How Facebook and 500 other companies will bring 3.8 billion more people online
Venture Beat - 21 Sep 2018 15:30
About 3.8 billion people in the world, or roughly half the population, currently lack internet access. The Telecom Infra Project (TIP), started by Facebook in February 2016, wants to bring the internet to all those who h...
Vodafone UK plans 5G launch in 2019, but says early phones are too big
Venture Beat - 21 Sep 2018 15:06
U.K. cellular carrier Vodafone will launch its 5G network in 2019, the company confirmed, but concerns over the size of early 5G devices are casting a cloud over the next-generation wireless technology’s initial mass m...
Facebook will stop on-site support for political campaigns
Venture Beat - 21 Sep 2018 04:50
(Reuters) — Facebook said on Thursday that it would no longer dispatch employees to the offices of political campaigns to offer support ahead of elections, as it did with U.S. President Donald Trump in the 2016 race. T...
The D20 Beat -- Dragon's Dogma, Etrian Odyssey, and Path of Exile are today's D&D megadungeons
Venture Beat - 21 Sep 2018 02:20
OPINION: I adore Capcom’s Dragon’s Dogma, an open-world role-playing game that first appeared in 2012. I missed out on the Dark Arisen expansion, but thanks to this 2017’s PlayStation 4 remaster, I dived back into ...
Samsung's CJG5 monitor review -- The right display for our times
Venture Beat - 21 Sep 2018 01:16
REVIEW: Right now is a great time to build a new gaming PC. Memory prices are still high, but we have a glut of great CPU, GPU, and storage options that do more than most people will need. We’re definitely in the matur...
Skype will finally make Echo Show video calls worthwhile
Venture Beat - 21 Sep 2018 00:59
Amazon debuted nearly a dozen new Alexa-powered devices today in a head-spinning hour atop The Spheres in Seattle, including a second-generation version of the Echo Show. Two major improvements were made to the latest ve...