Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next. At Ignite 2021, beyond spotlight features like Loop and Context IQ, Microsoft announced enhancements to services across its Microsoft 365 product families. A new JavaScript API in Microsoft Excel allows developers to create custom data types, and […]
Video gamers have spent equivalent of 78 days playing online over last 18 months
Video gamers have spent the equivalent of 78 DAYS playing online over the past 18 months. A study of 2,000 adults who regularly game found that 39 percent spent more time gaming during the last year and a half – playing an estimated 40 percent more in a typical week than pre-pandemic. Individuals spent an […]
Update: Bloodborne PSX Demake Hunts Down January Release Date
Update, 11/01/21: The upcoming Bloodborne PSX demake now has a release date and you don’t have to wait too much longer to play it. Bloodborne PSX coder b0tster (on Twitter) announced yesterday that it would be releasing on January 31, 2022. She included a new trailer showcasing some familiar Yharnam haunts and enemies in it, too. […]
Sales intelligence platform Apollo.io lands $32M
Apollo.io, which runs a sales acceleration platform for B2B companies, today announced it has raised $32 million in a series B round of funding. The investment, led by Tribe Capital with participation from NewView Capital and existing investor Nexus Venture Partners, will be used by the San Francisco-based startup to expand its team and client […]
Machine learning deployment platform OctoML raises $85M
Let the OSS Enterprise newsletter guide your open source journey! Sign up here. OctoML, a platform that helps enterprises optimize and deploy machine learning (ML) models, has raised $85 million in a series C round of funding. While countless companies are dabbling with ways to leverage AI to improve their businesses and bottom line, transitioning AI projects beyond the pilot stage […]
Multiverse Computing utilizes quantum tools for finance apps
Despite great efforts to unseat it, Microsoft Excel remains the go-to analytics interface in most industries — even in the relatively tech-advanced area of finance. Could this familiar spreadsheet be the portal to futuristic quantum computing in finance? The answer is “yes,” according to the principals at Multiverse Computing. This San Sebastián, Spain-based quantum software […]
Fortnite to be shut down for real… in China
Following a more than three years long test period, Epic Games has decided it’s not worth keeping Fortnite up and running in China. The phrase ‘Fortnite is being shut down’ sounds like a fabrication considering how globally popular and financially successful it is. But that’s exactly what’s happening, at least with the Chinese version of […]
Unplugged Patch Unlocks All Songs, Revamps Progression
All of Unplugged’s songs are now unlocked and available from the start of the game, removing the progression system that the game launched with. A new system replaces it that sees players completing challenges to unlock new venues instead of songs. Unplugged is one of the biggest and most technologically ambitious Quest games to release […]
Blade And Sorcery On Quest 2 Will Support Mods Post-Launch
The Oculus Quest 2 version of Blade And Sorcery will support mods just after launch, developer Warp Frog has confirmed. The team confirmed as much in an FAQ for the newly-announced Blade And Sorcery: Nomad, a Quest 2-exclusive edition of the game announced at Connect last week. According to the studio, modding will be included […]
Facebook battles the challenges of tactile sensing
Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next. Facebook this morning announced ReSkin, an open source touch-sensing synthetic “skin” created by researchers at the company in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University. Leveraging machine learning and magnetic sensing, ReSkin is designed to offer an inexpensive, versatile, […]