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Vertigo Games Acquires LBE Platform SpringboardVR, Founders Form ArborXR

Arizona Sunshine creator Vertigo Games has been involved in the location-based entertainment (LBE) side of the virtual reality (VR) industry for several years now and today marks another step in that journey. The company has completed its acquisition of SpringboardVR, a platform providing VR venue management software and content. The purchase brings SpringboardVR under the […]

Borderlands developer Gearbox acquired by Embracer Group in $1.3B deal

Borderlands developer Gearbox Software is now part of the Embracer Group, the parent company that includes publishing and development studios THQ Nordic, Saber Interactive, Koch Media, Deep Silver, and Coffee Stain Studios. Embracer’s acquisition of Gearbox — namely, the Gearbox Entertainment Company, which encompasses Gearbox Software and Gearbox Publishing — is worth $1.378 billion, according […]

2D Platformer Dogworld Launches March 18 On PC

Dogworld may sound like a modernized version of Nintendogs, or some other cute and fluffy world where you nurture your virtual pet. However, this 2D platformer is quite the opposite. Yes, there are dogs, but there are also guns, eye-catching action, and one hell of an ear-melting score. Earth has suffered another catastrophic event that […]

Community Health Network prescribes AI to combat COVID-19

AI is about to play a much larger role in identifying individuals who are at risk for contracting COVID-19 in Indiana. Community Health Network (CHN), an accountable care organization (ACO), revealed today that it is beginning to employ an AI platform from Jvion to analyze members’ electronic health care records that are stored in a […]

2K Is Still The Publisher Of Borderlands, Despite The Gearbox Acquisition

Embracer Group, the Swedish holding company that’s the parent of THQ Nordic, has just purchased Gearbox Entertainment for a cool $1.3 billion. Not exactly ZeniMax money, but not an insubstantial sum either. With Embracer now at the helm, you’d think that would mean the Borderlands franchise would fall to one of its many publishers in […]

Granulate raises $30 million for AI that optimizes server workloads

Granulate, a startup developing a platform that optimizes computing infrastructure, today announced it has raised $30 million, bringing its total raised to $45.6 million. The company claims the cash infusion will help it develop products that reduce the time engineers spend tuning enterprise system performance, freeing them up to pursue potentially more creative, impactful, and […]

Oculus App Lab Livestream: Next Quest Games Live!

What’s Facebook’s new Quest distribution platform all about? Find out as we dive into our Oculus App Lab livestream today at 8:30am PT/4:30pm GMT! Launched yesterday, App Lab is a sort of halfway house between the official Oculus Store and sideloading content onto your headset. It allows developers to distribute and even sell experimental or […]

Google launches transatlantic Dunant subsea cable as cloud sales soar

Google’s second fully privately owned subsea cable is now open for business. The announcement comes shortly after the company recorded record quarterly revenues, with soaring cloud sales playing a major role. In 2018, the internet giant revealed plans for its Dunant cable. It’s one of more than a dozen projects Google has backed over the […]