Facebook Vice President of AR/VR, Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth, will take over the role of Facebook Chief Technology Officer (CTO) after current CTO Mike Schroepfer announced plans to step down from the role sometime next year. Schroepfer has been with Facebook for 13 years and after stepping away from his CTO role, he will move to […]
Enterprise AI platform Leena AI raises $30M to be a ‘Siri for employees’
The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! Leena AI, an AI-powered conversational platform used by major enterprises such as Nestlé, Coca-Cola, and P&G, has raised $30 million in a series B round of funding led by Bessemer Venture Partners. Founded out of New York in 2018, Leena […]
Hearthstone Mercenaries is a quick and clever take on a card game RPG
Hearthstone has slowly been branching out over the years, moving away from just supporting the standard competitive format of the card game. Sometimes that’s something as elaborate as single-player adventures or experimental like the eight player auto chess mode Battlegrounds. The game’s newest mode, Mercenaries, moves even further away from the game’s core formula in […]
Konami’s eFootball is a disaster at launch and Steam’s worst-rated game ever
Well, Pro Evolution Soccer’s transition to fully free-to-play eFootball is quite the hot mess. Konami’s futbol game launched on Wednesday with player expectations already set into the future, thanks to a development roadmap promising a lot of core features coming via title updates. But that doesn’t even begin to account for the cavalcade of jank […]
Mobile Premier League valued at $2.3bn after funding round – Esports Insider
Mobile esports platform Mobile Premier League (MPL) has reached a pre-money valuation of $2.3bn (~£1.7bn) after a Series E funding round led by Legatum Capital. The latest funding achievement for the Indian gaming and esports company grants it unicorn status – a privately held startup worth over $1bn – becoming the second Indian gaming startup […]
Axelera, which is developing an AI accelerator chip, raises $12M
The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! Axelera AI, a Dutch AI semiconductor startup, today emerged from stealth with $12 million in seed funding led by Bitfury, a security and infrastructure provider for the Bitcoin blockchain. Innovation Industries Fund participated in the round, which the company says […]
A board gaming accessory that you actually need
We’ve written about a lot of fun board game accessories here at Polygon dot com. Dice vaults? We got ‘em. Novel little rolling trays? For sure. Bizarre pizza lifters? Why not. But I’m going to be honest: You don’t need those. What you need is some Lax Rax, and you need ‘em right the hell […]
New Metroid Dread Trailer Is A Perfect Gameplay Primer
Metroid is one of the most beloved series in gaming, and when a new entry releases it is a big deal. We’ve already seen a few trailers that highlight her new abilities, and a few weeks back, I wrote an opinion on why the next Metroid should take inspirations from indie games, but if you see […]
Radiohead ports Kid A and Amnesiac to Mac, PC, and PlayStation 5
Radiohead and Epic Games have teamed up for a new project based on the band’s Kid A and Amnesiac albums, just in time for the band’s re-release of those two records. A trailer for the mysterious new collaboration debuted during Sony’s PlayStation Showcase 2021 on Thursday. The trailer opens with some mumbling and assorted strings […]
Tchia looks like a vibrant open-world island adventure
Awaceb, a studio funded by Kowloon Nights, showed off the first major look at Tchia, its upcoming open-world island adventure, as part Sony’s PlayStation Showcase on Thursday. The game has a release window of 2022 and is currently in development for PlayStation 4 and 5. Tchia’s debut trailer makes it look like you’ll be able […]