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GUEST: "I'm sorry, so sorry." In the 1960s, it was a hit song by the 15-year old American singer Brenda Lee, crooning about unrequited love. In the 21st century, "sorry, so sorry" has become the tragic modus operandi for...

GUEST: For the past 18 months, my teams at Acxiom Research have worked extensively with a specific form of artificial intelligence called natural language processing (NLP). Our most exciting NLP development is called ABB...

Nate Nanzer, commissioner of the Overwatch League, hopes his particular esport will become the mainstream competitive league of choice for a global audience of esports fans. The Overwatch League kicked off in January wit...

Peter Warman, game industry analyst and CEO of Dutch market researcher Newzoo, started following esports closely in 2013. He started looking into the numbers and comparisons to real world traditional sports, and began ma...

The mobile gaming market is one of the fastest growing industries, and for the first time, market watchers forecast it to generate more than half of the global gaming market revenue in 2018. In the first half of 2018 alo...

In 2014, in a bid to replace the more than 11,000 aging payphones scattered across New York City’s pedestrian walkways with more functional fixtures, Mayor Bill de Blasio launched a competition — the Reinvent Payphon...

Dave Ranyard used to head up one of Sony's longest-running PlayStation developers, working on its most experimental tech, located in the heart of London. Over the course of the past decade, he's worked on games that spea...

The Minecraft Marketplace kept some of its momentum from launching on Switch and its first Summer Sale. The unified version of Minecraft served up 373,361 downloads across Windows 10, mobile, Xbox, and Switch. While that...

GUEST: Oculus Quest is the new class leader for premium/standalone VR, and looks like the ultimate expression of the early-stage VR 1.0 market. Combining Oculus Go quality graphics with inside-out tracking and Touch cont...