Teens The teenager who made millions on Bitcoin is staking it all on this obscure tokenVentureBeat - Colin HarperErik Finman was 12 years old when he bought $1,000 worth of Bitcoin in the summer of 2011. The world’s first digital currency was just two years old and trading for $10, a time when most folks, if they
Play buttonEtrian Odyssey How Patrice Désilets survived the odyssey of making AncestorsVentureBeat - Dean TakahashiYou may forgive Patrice Désilets for getting emotional last week during the Opening Night Live event at Gamescom 2019, when the trailer showed for his game, Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey. That’s because
Spiders Bigben’s acquisition of Spiders weaves a web of Double-A ambitionVentureBeat - Jason WilsonLast month, Bigben Interactive made an intriguing acquisition: Spiders, a French studio that specializes in action-role-playing games. It’s just another move behind the French company’s ambition to become
Oculus Quest Red Matter’s Oculus Quest sales eclipse its Rift sales in just 1 weekVentureBeat - David HeaneySales of Red Matter on Oculus Quest have already surpassed the game’s lifetime sales on Rift, according to the developer Vertical Robot. The Rift version of the game launched 15 months ago. It currently
CEOs Actually, engineers are the perfect tech CEOsVentureBeat - Barry Morris, UndoIt has been Silicon Valley’s leadership template for decades — talented young engineers create something that resonates, scale it up, and find themselves as chief executive at the helm of a ship that larger
Wi-Fi You can find Wi-Fi 6 routers on shelves today, but do you need one?VentureBeat - Sanjay NoronhaWi-Fi 6, also known as 802.11ax, is promising to make Wi-Fi better, with faster speeds, better connections, and more. Sounds great, right? No wonder we’re starting to see shiny new Wi-Fi 6 routers on in
Huawei Huawei’s big move from component maker to AI service providerVentureBeat - Jack Gold, J.Gold AssociatesHuawei made a major AI announcement today with its Ascend 910 data center and cloud targeted chipsets, as well as a new soon to be open-sourced framework called MindSpore. No one should be surprised about
Wolfenstein How Machine Games took a single-player series into co-op with Wolfenstein: YoungbloodVentureBeat - Dean TakahashiWolfenstein: Youngblood is considered a “small game” for Machine Games, the Swedish game studio. The big games in the rebooted Wolfenstein series — Wolfenstein: The New Order and Wolfenstein: The New —
Nintendo Nintendo continues to dominate TV ahead of triple-A seasonVentureBeat - Eleanor Semeraro, iSpot.tvNintendo maintains its hot streak when it comes to the gaming industry’s recent TV ad impressions. the company’s commercials account for over 64% of the sector’s impressions across 30 days, with Rockstar
Oculus VR Oculus’ VP Jason Rubin isn’t fretting over Sony’s acquisition of InsomniacVentureBeat - Jamie Feltham, Upload VREarlier this week Sony acquired Insomniac Games, one of the Oculus VR‘s most important development partners. It could be seen as a blow to the lineup of exclusive games for the Rift and Quest, as Sony
The Emmy Awards Wolves in the Walls wins first Emmy Award for a virtual beingVentureBeat - Dean TakahashiFable, which transitioned from being a virtual reality studio to a “virtual beings” company, has won an Emmy Award for its Wolves in the Walls project. It’s a landmark day for “virtual beings,” or animated
Drones Weaponize your drone and face a $25,000 fine from the FAAVentureBeat - Khari JohnsonThe Federal Aviation Administration issued an advisory this week warning drone pilots and the general public that placing a dangerous weapon on a drone can carry a fine of up to $25,000. “Perhaps you’ve
Play buttonNintendo Leiting Games launches dungeon-crawler Overdungeon on SteamVentureBeat - Dean TakahashiChinese game publisher Leiting Games has announced the full version of the rogue-like dungeon-crawler Overdungeon from Pocket Pair is now available on the PC via Steam. The Shenzhen, China-based Overdungeon
YouTube ProBeat: YouTube messages should have never existedVentureBeat - Emil Protalinski YouTube is killing its messages feature two years after introducing it, despite there being no use case for a built-in chat functionality in the app.
Play buttonMobile Gaming Jam City unveils Frozen Adventures mobile game coming in NovemberVentureBeat - Dean TakahashiMobile game publisher Jam City unveiled its match-3 puzzle game Frozen Adventures, which is debuting in November in anticipation of the launch of the Disney Frozen 2 film. The original Frozen animated
Play buttonGamescom The DeanBeat: How Germany does gaming events right with GamescomVentureBeat - Dean TakahashiIn the past, Gamescom (the giant fan event in Cologne, Germany) was a sideshow for the worldwide game industry. Companies could choose to come or skip it. They made their announcements at the Electronic
Huawei Huawei details AI chips for training and inferenceVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersIn a bid to establish a foothold in an AI chip market that’s anticipated to be worth $91.18 billion by 2025, Huawei today brought to market the Ascend 910, a new chipset in its Ascend-Max family optimized
Robotics Sphero acquires modular electronics company LittleBitsVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersSphero, the nine-year-old Colorado-based company best known for its lineup of programmable robots, this week completed a major acquisition that catapults it to the top of the burgeoning science, technology,
Play button Baby Rage unveils plans for crossplay VR-PC shooter game Extreme Tactical ExecutionersVentureBeat - Dean TakahashiBaby Rage has launched a new virtual reality game called Extreme Tactical Executions (xTx). By itself, that’s not unusual. But this game was designed from the first day for both VR and the PC, with crossplay
Hewlett Packard HP CEO Dion Weisler steps down, taps veteran insider Enrique LoresVentureBeat - Reuters(Reuters) — HP said on Thursday Chief Executive Officer Dion Weisler is stepping down after nearly four years in the role, and forecast fourth quarter profit below Wall Street estimates, sending its shares
Vmware VMware acquires Pivotal and Carbon Black for nearly $5 billionVentureBeat - Reuters(Reuters) — VMware said on Thursday it bought two software companies in separate deals valued at about $5 billion, looking to expand the range of products and services it offers to its corporate clients.
Play buttonMinecraft Earth Minecraft Earth beta expands to AndroidVentureBeat - Jeff GrubbMicrosoft and the Minecraft Team want to give Minecraft players a chance to try the franchise’s new AR game on Android. Minecraft Earth is already available as a beta test for people running iOS 10 devices.
Oculus VR Oculus mobile VR leader leaves FacebookVentureBeat - Dean TakahashiThere’s a changing of the guard in the leadership at Oculus VR, the division that Facebook acquired for $3 billion in 2014. Max Cohen, former head of mobile VR, is leaving the company at the end of the
Hearthstone Hearthstone nerfs Dr. Boom, Conjurer’s Calling, Luna’s Pocket Galaxy, Extra Arms … and BarnesVentureBeat - Jason Wilson“One, two, Hearthstone’s coming for you” — that’s the song I’m singing to Barnes and Dr. Boom, Mad Genius right now. After drawing ire from legions of players (and in Barnes’ case, for years now), two
Google Nest Lenovo Smart Clock with Google Assistant gets a digital photo frameVentureBeat - Khari JohnsonThe Lenovo Smart Clock, a smart speaker with 5-inch display tailor made for bedside nightstands, can now act as a digital photo frame for the display of Google Photos albums. The Lenovo Smart Clock was
Cloud Gaming Razer teams with Tencent on cloud gaming standards, reports 30% revenue growth in first halfVentureBeat - Dean TakahashiRazer always wants to be on the cutting edge, and so it has teamed up with Tencent Cloud to define standards for cloud gaming. Under the deal, the partners will help cloud gaming grow by coming together
eSports DrLupo signs multi-year streaming and esports contract with Rekt GlobalVentureBeat - Dean TakahashiPopular Twitch game streamer Benjamin “DrLupo” Lupo has signed a multi-year contract with esports company Rekt Global. DrLupo has more than 7 million followers on Twitch, and he is also captain of RektGlobal’s
Technology SpotHero raises $50 million to bring underutilized parking spaces onlineVentureBeat - Kyle WiggersChicago, Illinois-based parking inventory and booking startup SpotHero today announced that it has secured $50 million in a series D round led by Macquarie Capital, bringing its total raised to date to
Mattel Mattel unveils Hot Wheels: Infinite Loop iOS racing gameVentureBeat - Dean TakahashiMattel is launching its iOS-based racing game, Hot Wheels: Infinite Loop in an attempt to takes its famous toy brands into digital gaming. The move is the latest example of how Mattel is serious about
