Today at the Riot Forge showcase event, players were treated to multiple surprises. Ruined King: A League Of Legends Story arrives today, landing on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Switch, and PC. It’s also coming to Xbox Series X/S and PlayStation 5 soon. The Xbox One and PS4 versions of the game are compatible with current-gen […]
Dying Light 2 gives its unique parkour a bigger, better city
The first Dying Light largely executed on its novel approach to the zombie genre — survive the horde with parkour and melee, ambitiously presented as a first-person experience — while coming up short in some of the supporting elements. In this way, it was a bit like the sports video games I routinely review, something […]
Space Pirate Trainer & Rhythmatic Are Coming to VRsenal’s Next-Gen Arcade Platform
Location-based entertainment (LBE) has really begun to bounce back in 2021, with VRFocus’ regular The Virtual Arena feature highlighting all the work that’s been achieved. One specialist in the space is VRsenal, which makes unmanned virtual reality (VR) arcade units such as Lightsaber Dojo: A Star Wars VR Experience in collaboration with ILMxLAB and Nomadic. […]
AI code discovery platform CatalyzeX raises $1.64M
California-based CatalyzeX, a startup that offers a platform AI/ML code discovery and know-how, today announced it has raised $1.64 million in a seed round of funding led by Unshackled Ventures, Darling Ventures, Kepler Ventures, On Deck, Abstraction Capital, Unpopular Ventures, and Basecamp Fund. The company said it plans to use the round — which also […]
Halo Infinite multiplayer lets you choose body type and voice — not gender
Halo: Reach was the first Halo game that let players customize a female Spartan in multiplayer. Back in 2010, that felt revolutionary to me, even though it wasn’t a significant visual change in terms of how the armor looked. Halo Infinite has made yet another leap forward in terms of customization by removing the gender […]
As cloud threats inundate businesses, Cado Security aims for rapid expansion
Cado Security, which offers a digital forensics platform for cloud environments, is seeing strong demand for its automation-driven product and plans to scale up quickly to meet the enterprise need, according to CEO James Campbell. On Tuesday, Cado Security released the findings from a new survey by Enterprise Strategy Group, which found that digital forensics […]
Halo Infinite Amasses Record-Breaking 270,000 Concurrent Players On Steam
Halo Infinite’s free-to-play multiplayer beta hasn’t even been out for 24 hours and is already breaking records. According to Video Games Chronicle, 343’s popular FPS space opera amassed over 270,000 concurrent players on Steam, the first Xbox Studios game to reach such notable player-count heights in such a short period. This feat is even more […]
Helm.ai raises $26M for ‘unsupervised’ autonomous driving software
Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next. Helm.ai, a startup creating software for autonomous vehicles, today announced that it raised $26 million in series B financing led by Amplo, JMPartners, Base Capital Funding, and Freeman Group with participation from ACVC, One Way Ventures, Binnacle […]
Azure Quantum drives data storage improvements
As organizations continue to struggle to maximize storage utilization and optimize analyzing massive amounts of data, Microsoft is upping its focus on the “high promise of quantum technology,” Daniel Stocker, program manager, Azure Quantum technology, told VentureBeat. With those data sizes growing and complexity increasing, Azure Quantum built a QIO solution for Azure Storage that’s […]
Report: 60% of orgs hit by ransomware-as-a-service attacks in the past 18 months
According to a new report from U.K.-based cybersecurity company Sophos, ransomware-as-a-service attacks became more popular in the past 18 months. Of the hundreds of ransomware attacks Sophos investigated during that time, nearly 60% were perpetrated by ransomware-as-a-service groups. Such attacks, where one group builds the malicious code and sells it to another group to use in […]