Call of Duty: Black Ops March 2019 NPD: The Division 2 jumps over Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice to lead sales chartVentureBeat - Jason WilsonThe Division 2 shows that Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice isn’t too hard to beat — at least on the sales charts. But for the industry overall, March 2018 trumps March 2019, as total industry spend is down 11%
Kingdom Hearts III March 2019 NPD: Kingdom Hearts III becomes the series’ best-seller in U.S.VentureBeat - Mike MinottiKingdom Hearts III is now the franchise’s best-selling entry in the U.S., according to industry-tracking firm The NPD Group. The Disney-themed action role-playing game released on January 29 for PlayStation
Eco How Eco gives gamers the same global warming problem as scientistsVentureBeat - Mike MinottiEco is a multiplayer game about starting a civilization from scratch and progressing it far enough that you can stop a meteor from destroying your virtual world. During all of that technological advancement,
Qualcomm Apple-Qualcomm 5G settlement isn’t a simple case of winner and loserVentureBeat - Jack Gold, J.Gold AssociatesNow that Apple and Qualcomm have settled their dispute, people are trying to pick winners and losers of this extended battle. The market has picked Qualcomm as the primary winner judging by its stock and
Daily Active Users Snap returns to growth with 190 million daily users in Q1 2019VentureBeat - Seth ColanerIn its Q1 2019 earnings report today, Snap had lots of good news for investors, from increased users to significant revenue growth. The camera company has not only halted the quarters-long trend of losing
Play buttonUbisoft GamesBeat Summit 2019VentureBeat - Dean TakahashiWe’ve kicked off GamesBeat Summit 2019, our event at Two Bit Circus in Los Angeles, and I talked about our themes, motivations, and speakers for the event in an opening speech. I’ve included the speech
Google Google kills Chrome’s Data Saver extensionVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersData Saver, a Chrome browser feature that automatically improves page loading times using “built-in optimizations” and dedicated servers, is no more — at least in name. Google this afternoon announced
AT&T Sprint’s 5G E lawsuit tarred AT&T, but didn’t help consumersVentureBeat - Jeremy HorwitzIn recent years, bad behavior has increasingly gone unpunished, so it probably won’t shock anyone that wireless carrier Sprint has given up its fight with AT&T over “5G Evolution” — an allegedly deceptive
Play button SteamWorld Quest review — clever card combatVentureBeat - Jeff GrubbI was worried about SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech. After falling in love with SteamWorld Dig 2 and SteamWorld Heist, I wasn’t sure that developer Image & Form Games could win me over in yet another
PlayStation 4 Slay the Spire’s blend of roguelike and deck-builder hits PS4 on May 21VentureBeat - Mike MinottiDeveloper Mega Crit and publisher Humble Bundle announced today that the indie game Slay the Spire is coming to PlayStation 4 on May 21. This is the first console release for the game. Slay the Spire for
OpenAI OpenAI’s Sparse Transformers can predict what comes next in lengthy text, image, and audio sequencesVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersSome months back, OpenAI debuted an AI natural language model capable of generating coherent passages from millions of Wikipedia and Amazon product reviews, and more recently, it demonstrated an AI system
Twitter Twitter is slowly perfecting the art of inventing nonsensical performance metricsVentureBeat - Chris O'BrienIn its latest effort to innovate around its business model of opacity, Twitter officially today unveiled its latest self-invented metric, dubbed “monetizable daily active usage.” Naturally, this being
Play button Watch GamesBeat Summit 2019: Phil Harrison, Amy Hennig, Ted Price, and Vince Zampella headline Day 1VentureBeat - Jason WilsonOur GamesBeat Summit 2019 event kicks off today at the Two-Bit Circus micro-amusement park in Downtown Los Angeles. We’ve got 97 speakers over two days — so many good talks, in fact, that we’re broadcasting
Play buttonPlayStation VR UploadVR announces E3 VR Showcase, a Nintendo Direct for virtual realityVentureBeat - Jason WilsonPlayStation VR is the biggest virtual reality platform in gaming, but with Sony being a no-show at the important Electronic Entertainment Expo tradeshow this June, someone needs to step in to fill the
China Qualcomm interview: China’s early launch proves the world wants 5G nowVentureBeat - Jeremy HorwitzHistory will remember April 2019 as a particularly big month for 5G networks, as carriers from the U.S., South Korea, and Europe all launched or significantly expanded their first 5G services. Last night,
Aviation Wing gains FAA approval to launch commercial drone delivery service in VirginiaVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersWing’s drone delivery service is one step closer to becoming a reality stateside, thanks to approval from federal regulators. The Alphabet X lab graduate announced this morning that it has been certified
Waymo Waymo will build its driverless cars in DetroitVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersMonths after Waymo announced that it would select a factory in southeast Michigan to dedicate to the production of level 4 autonomous cars — that is, cars capable of driving without human supervision most
Health Care India’s Mfine raises $17.2 million to expand telemedical doctor networkVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersMfine, an AI health care startup headquartered in Bangalore, today announced that it has raised $17.2 million in a series B funding round led by Japan-based venture group SBI Investment, with participation
Microsoft Microsoft: AI’s next frontier is experts teaching machinesVentureBeat - Khari JohnsonMicrosoft executives say the next frontier in artificial intelligence will involve using human professionals’ expertise to train machine learning models. “Machine teaching” is essentially an interface
Softbank Blueshift raises $15 million from Softbank for its AI customer engagement toolsVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersFour-year-old Blueshift, which describes itself as an AI-driven “customer data activation” company, has attracted backing from Japanese conglomerate Softbank. It today announced that it’s raised $15 million
Amazon Amazon’s in-garage delivery service is now open for businessVentureBeat - Paul SawersAmazon has officially launched its in-garage delivery offering for Prime customers in the U.S., nearly four months after first announcing the service. Key for Garage, as it’s known, extends the broader
Twitter Twitter beats expectations with revenue of $787 million as monthly users rise to 330 millionVentureBeat - Paul SawersTwitter has announced Q1 2019 revenues of $787 million — a year-on-year (YoY) increase of around 20%. However, after the company reported a record $909 million income for the last quarter, this represents
Rembrandt Brightback raises $11 million for automated subscription retention serviceVentureBeat - Khari JohnsonSubscription retention and churn management software company Brightback today announced the close of an $11 million funding round. The startup will use this money to hire engineers and marketing and sales
Google Maps Google Maps will now show real-time availability of electric vehicle charging stationsVentureBeat - Paul SawersGoogle will now show electric vehicle (EV) drivers real-time availability of charging stations directly inside Google Maps. The move comes six months after the internet giant announced it was going to
U.S. State Department Facebook’s new general counsel is U.S. State Department lawyer Jennifer NewsteadVentureBeat - Reuters(Reuters) — Facebook on Monday named the legal adviser to the U.S. State Department as its general counsel, as the social media giant faces growing regulatory hurdles and privacy concerns. Jennifer Newstead,
China China Unicom moves first Chinese 5G launch up to MayVentureBeat - Jeremy HorwitzClosely following the launches of early 5G networks in the United States, South Korea, and Europe, China Unicom has decided to move up its commercial 5G rollout to May 2019, accelerating the start of 5G
Nvidia Nvidia reveals affordable GeForce GTX 1650 GPU, shows off some spiffy laptopsVentureBeat - Giancarlo ValdesNvidia is getting a new line of GeForce-powered laptops, aiming for both casual and hardcore players. Starting today, you can order notebooks that feature the company’s GTX 1660 Ti graphics processing
Xbox One World War Z passes 1 million copies sold in a weekVentureBeat - Jason WilsonZombie games can still bring in big sales, as publisher Focus Home Interactive and developer Saber Interactive announced today that their co-op shooter World War Z has passed more than 1 million copies
Censinet raises $7.8 million for health care vendor risk assessmentVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersCensinet, a Boston, Massachusetts-based startup developing a vendor risk management platform for health care providers, today announced that it has raised $7.8 million in a series A round co-led by HML
DevOps Harness raises $60 million to automate continuous app delivery with machine learningVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersHarness, a San Francisco startup developing a continuous app delivery and release platform for engineering and DevOps teams, today announced that it’s raised $60 million in an oversubscribed series B co-led
