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Look out Twitch: ESL forms two-year esports streaming partnership with Azubu
Twitch may be the undisputed king of livestreaming when it comes to video games, but its esports-focused rival, Azubu, has been steadily gaining ground over the last few years. Today, Azubu announced that his has landed a two-year deal with the Electronic Sports League (ESL), one of the largest esports organizations in the world, allowing to stream ...
Epic’s Tim Sweeney: Microsoft’s UWP is a good idea, but it still needs to change
Epic Games founder and CEO Tim Sweeney stirred the hornet’s nest at Microsoft last week when he denounced the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) in an op-ed for The Guardian, criticizing it as “a closed platform-within-a-platform.” “In my view,” Sweeney said in his article, “if Microsoft does not commit to opening PC UWP up in the manner [I ...
Hitman’s episodic model “a very natural and beneficial evolution” says creative director
Earlier this year, IO Interactive announced that its upcoming Hitman game would be released as a series of episodes rather than a single title, and the move received a mixed response from fans. The studio itself even admitted at the time that the decision “may frustrate some players.” In a recent interview with Gamastura, Hitman Creative Director Christian Elverdam explained ...
Ubisoft’s ‘The Division’ broke company records for the most copies sold in 24 hours
Despite a few launch day server hiccups, Ubisoft Entertainment SA’s The Division seems to have been the company’s most successful launch to date, selling more copies in 24 hours than all of its previous games. The company noted that the game has also broken its record for digital copies sold. Ubisoft did not reveal the exact sales ...
Twitter sets sights on game devs by offering full Unity support for Fabric
Mobile game developers will now have a few more tools at their disposal, as Twitter Inc. announced today that its development platform, Fabric, now offers full support for the popular Unity 5 game engine. “For years, Twitter has helped game developers deliver amazing experiences through rich content and app distribution tools that drive discovery and conversation ...
Google’s AlphaGo AI has successfully beaten the Go world champion in its first of five games
Just two months ago, Google’s DeepMind project shocked the tech world by announcing that its Go-playing artificial intelligence, AlphaGo, had successfully beaten a professional Go player, a feat that AI researchers had previously thought was still years away. Now, AlphaGo has once again surprised the AI community by successfully beating the Go world champion, Lee Sedol, ...
Hearthstone’s new Deck Recipes aim to ease new players into deck building
Always wanting to make its games more accessible, Blizzard Entertainment Inc has announced that it is introducing Deck Recipes to Hearthstone to give players a head start in building their own decks. The new feature, which seems to be aimed at new and intermediate players, will offer a selection of three pre-built decks for each class that will allow players to ...
SuperData less optimistic about VR, slashes 2016 forecast by nearly a third
Earlier this year, game industry analytics firm SuperData Research Inc released a report predicting the near future of the virtual reality market, saying that it believed the VR industry would reach $5.1 billion in revenue in 2016, but now the firm has said that it may have been a bit too optimistic with that number and ...
Bottlenose adds two major data sources to supercharge its smart data discovery platform
Smart data discovery company Bottlenose Inc has announced the addition of two major new sources to its ever-expanding data library: LexisNexis, which stores offline data from government, academic, and industry sources; and Flashpoint, which stores data from the deep web and the dark web. Bottlenose co-founder and CEO Nova Spivack told me that these new integrations ...
Google’s Project Fi phone service drops the invite requirement, offers Nexus 5X for $199
Google has announced that its Project Fi phone service will be ditching its invitation requirement less than two months before the program’s one-year anniversary. Project Fi, which first launched in April 2015, is a phone and data plan that operates using Sprint and T-Mobile towers. The plan allows users to pay only for the data they use down ...
