Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next. Facebook changed its corporate name to Meta today. Facebook.com is still Facebook.com, though. This is a move to embrace the metaverse, which is a concept that many tech-industry executives and investors view as the future of the […]
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IoT security provider Viakoo raises $10M
Mountain View, California-based Viakoo, a company that automates IoT security for enterprises, today announced it has raised $10 million in a series A round of funding led by Shasta Ventures and existing investors Stanley Black & Decker, PivotNorth Capital, and Blue Fog Capital. As the number of IoT devices continues to increase at home and […]
Mark Zuckerberg Teases 'Retina Resolution' VR Headset
It seems like Facebook executives are teasing prototype VR headset designs today. The latest is from CEO Mark Zuckerberg with a “retina resolution” device. Zuckerberg posted an image of himself trying the headset on his Facebook page with the message: “I spent the day with the Facebook Reality Labs research team in Redmond to demo […]
Hazelcast CEO on the rise of real-time translytics
The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! The ability to embed analytics within transactions in real time can be traced back to the mainframe platforms that have enabled this capability for decades. But as data is increasingly processed and analyzed at the point where it is created […]
Vermillion Interview: Making Realistic Oil Painting Accessible Using VR
Oil painting simulator Vermillion, available on PC VR and soon on Oculus Quest, is about as close to oil painting in real life as you’re going to get in VR. At least for now, anyway. But this new unassuming simulator app for VR headsets is doing something interesting — people who were previously uninterested in […]
Netflix Dragon Age TV Series Rumored To Be In Development
Netflix has been holding nothing back in terms of taking up as much space in the gaming community as possible. Whether that be by actually offering games or just delivering surprising adaptations, the streaming company has been on a roll, and now it looks like it’s rolling towards Thedas with a new rumor. That’s right; […]
Watch Dogs: Legion Camden Town real world comparison – Reader's Feature
A reader compares the real Camden Town with Ubisoft’s version and finds Watch Dogs: Legion to already be strangely outdated. Back in 2018, I took my camera out to explore the City of London, to see how faithfully and accurately it had been recreated in Assassin’s Creed Syndicate. This year, with an unexpected period of […]
George R. R. Martin's Time Working On Elden Ring Ended Years Ago
Video games unsurprisingly take a long time to create, and the process unfolds in different ways for every game. Elden Ring is like every other game in this respect, but it’s been under a microscope this week, in part because of the excitement from its fanbase, but also because we haven’t heard much about it […]
George R. R. Martin Called Elden Ring A Sequel To Dark Souls
As it turns out, at least according to George R. R. Martin, Elden Ring doesn’t just look like Dark Souls 4, it is a sequel to the flagship FromSoftware series, making it exactly that. Maybe he’s just mixing up the term with a spiritual successor, or perhaps he wrote Elden Ring as though it was Dark Souls […]
Advance Wars 1 + 2 Are Being Remastered For Switch, Arriving In December
During today’s Nintendo E3 Direct, Intelligent Systems’ long-dormant Advance Wars series returned, not with a new entry, but a remastered collection that brings back the first two entries in the series for Switch. Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp is slated to release on December 3 with pre-orders available now. Advance Wars is a turn-based tactical […]