Content Rated By: An Oral History of the ESRB excerpt — “Chairman of the TBD”
GamesBeat is publishing this exclusive excerpt of Content Rated By: An Oral History of the ESRB. Read Part 1 here. To help commemorate its 25th anniversary, the …
Perform or make way for others, Ganguly’s advise to Kohli and his boys
Kolkata: BCCI President Sourav Ganguly on Friday rubbished, as pure speculation, allegations that he would be vindictive towards chief coach Ravi Shastri, saying that performance …
You don’t have to share your phone number for Facebook logins anymore
Passwords can be a bear sometimes — particularly if you’re prone to forgetting them. In an effort to help users regain access to their Facebook …
Mickey Arthur appointed Consultant Head Coach of Sri Lanka
in Cricket, International Cricket News XtraTime Web Desk: Sri Lanka Cricket on Thursday appointed Mickey Arthur as the Consultant Head Coach of the senior team. …
Nintendo doesn’t add Super Mario RPG to Switch Online’s SNES games
Nintendo has updated the roster of retro games available as part of the Nintendo Switch Online service with six games that are not Super Mario …
Rohit Sharma just one hit away from a rare record
XtraTime Web Desk: India’s star opener Rohit Sharma is just one hit away to become the first Indian to reach 400 sixes in international cricket. …
Pathfinder: Kingmaker studio Owlcat Games raises $1 million from GEM Capital
Owlcat Games put out a good adaption of one of tabletop gaming’s most complex role-playing systems with Pathfinder: Kingmaker in 2018, selling what it says …
5 Amazing Holiday Gift Ideas For Your Boss
The holiday season is right around the corner where every effort to make money online in Nigeria and offline will momentary come to a pause! …
BCCI planning to have a grand opening for world’s largest cricket stadium in Motera
File Picture XtraTime Web Desk: The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is mulling the idea od a grand opening for the world’s …
Riot Games settled gender-discrimination lawsuit for at least $10 million
Riot Games said in court filings that it has agreed to pay at least $10 million to women who worked at the game company as …
5 Mouth-Watering Treats To Bring To Your Holiday Office Party
The Sky’s The Limit For Power’s Veteran’s Initiative <span style=”display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;” class=”rm-shortcode” data-rm-shortcode-id=”K6XUOR1575378231″><iframe lazy-loadable=”true” src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/y1txitRPzS4?start=31&rel=0″ width=”100%” height=”auto” frameborder=”0″ scrolling=”no” style=”position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;”></iframe></span><p>Power currently employs 225 veterans, which represents …
Solaris: Offworld Combat VR shooter shows off weapons, in-game AR interface
Ever since UploadVR first teased the game at our E3 VR Showcase, folks have been keen to find out more about Solaris: Offworld Combat. Today, …
No Man’s Sky Synthesis update has a bushel of VR improvements
When No Man’s Sky Beyond launched in August of this year, it took the VR world by storm, and Hello Games has been toiling away …
Black Friday 2019: The best Alexa Gadgets, from microwaves to twerking bears
Whether you picked up a new Echo device on Black Friday or Cyber Monday or anticipate buying one in the near future, Alexa Gadgets can …
NordVPN launches NordPass as password protection market heats up
Popular virtual private network (VPN) company NordVPN officially launched its NordPass password management app in general availability this week, five months after introducing the service …
Shovel Knight’s superb soundtrack becomes a soothing collection of lullabies
Scarlet Moon Records produces albums for original soundtracks and remixes of video game music, and its next project is giving Shovel Knight‘s tunes a soothing …
Feuding South Korean firms risk disrupting electric car battery supplies
(Reuters) — In 2018, South Korea’s SK Innovation beat its larger, local rival LG Chem to a multibillion dollar deal to supply German carmaker Volkswagen …
Google fires activist Rebecca Rivers and 3 others
Google fired 4 employees today for alleged violations of company policy amid growing tension between organizing employees and management. A company spokesperson declined to comment …
Facebook starts selling replacement Oculus Rift S cables
Is your Oculus Rift S cable twisted beyond recognition? Facebook is now selling a replacement cable — but it’s pricey. The Oculus Rift S Optical …
Cloud gaming is going to make customer support more complicated
New cloud-based game platforms like Google Stadia and Apple Arcade are potentially great for gamers, offering on-demand, download-free, anytime, anywhere games. But, drawing on over …
Facebook confirms facial recognition app, says it was only for internal use
Facebook made a facial recognition app for internal use, a company spokesperson told VentureBeat in an email. On Friday, Business Insider published a story citing …
Sensor Tower: Minecraft Earth dug up 1.2 million U.S. downloads in its first week
Minecraft Earth came out in the U.S. in early access form on November 12, and the augmented reality take on the popular exploration and creation …
Sonos acquires privacy-conscious AI startup Snips for $37.5 million
Audio company Sonos today announced the acquisition of Snips, a privacy-conscious conversational AI company based in Paris. The $37.5 million acquisition will bring machine learning …
Superpedestrian raises $20 million for durable electric scooters
Electric scooters accounted for 45.8% of the 84 million micromobility trips taken in 2018, according to a survey published by the National Association of City …
Unlocking the potential of the citizen data scientist
Imagine if you gave the power of drag and drop machine learning and automation to every employee in your company. Seasoned data scientists would become …
Jensen Huang interview — Nvidia can shake off rivals that have complicated and untested AI solutions
Intel just announced its first graphics processing unit (GPU), the Ponte Vecchio, to compete with Nvidia for handling AI in supercomputers. But Nvidia CEO Jensen …
Is AI in a golden age or on the verge of a new winter?
The global rush forward of AI development continues at a breakneck pace and shows no signs of stopping. Stanford University recently called on the U.S. …
Pokémon Sword and Shield review-in-progress — A warm and comfy, but mild, curry
Pokémon Sword and Shield are showing that a good game can overcome one’s up-and-down (mostly down) history with a franchise, and that you’re never too …
Immortals Gaming Club sells its Houston Outlaws Overwatch team to Beasley Media Group
Los Angeles-based Immortals Gaming Club said it has sold its Houston Outlaws Overwatch League franchise team to the multi-platform media company Beasley Media Group. The …
John Carmack moves to ‘consulting CTO’ role at Oculus
John Carmack is stepping down from his full-time position as chief technology officer at Facebook Oculus virtual reality division. Carmack said in a Facebook post …
There’s serious potential in serious games
The world is being transformed by play. Serious games, or games that have a purpose beyond entertainment (not games that require serious effort to play, …
Disney+ opens up a new front in the Streaming Wars
The past few weeks have seen a number of big news announcements in the rapidly evolving streaming landscape — most notably the highly publicized launch …
Voi raises $85 million to make escooter sharing profitable
Swedish electric scooter startup Voi Technology has raised $85 million in a round of funding led by Vostok New Ventures, with participation from Balderton Capital, …
Flavourworks raises $3.8 million to make interactive games with live-action video
Flavourworks has raised $3.8 million in funding for its interactive movie games that fuse together live-action video with interactive gameplay. Flavourworks has created a “touch …
The RetroBeat — Warcraft III: Reforged looks to balance the old with the new
New games like Diablo IV and Overwatch 2 dominated headlines at this year’s BlizzCon, but Blizzard Entertainment is also working on a project with a …
Take-Two: The Outer Worlds is ‘outperforming expectations’
Publisher Take-Two Interactive says that it is happy with the launch of The Outer Worlds. Take-Two subsidiary Private Division published the space role-playing adventure from …
How your startup can compete in the big tech hiring space (VB Live)
Presented by TriNet Winning the talent war requires more than just offering a competitive salary. Learn how your recruiting process, company culture, HR technology platforms …
Brass Lion is a new diverse studio from Mass Effect 3 and Skyrim devs
Developers Bryna Dabby Smith, Rashad Redic, and Manveer Heir revealed the details of their new studio, Brass Lion Entertainment, today. This new team wants to …
Kellen Winslow Jr. Takes Plea Deal To Avoid Life Sentence
Photo: Pool The San Diego Union-Tribune (AP) Former NFL tight end Kellen Winslow Jr. accepted a plea deal Monday that spared him from the possibility …
Dumbass Doping Defense To Drugs Trafficking Charge Gets Dutch Sprinter Stiff Prison Sentence
Photo: AP Photo/Michael Sohn (AP) How dumbass are you if you are an Olympic athlete and your defense to narcotics trafficking charges is that you …
Your posture is killing you: What gamers should know about ergonomics
The video game industry is reaching more people than ever — but this also means that ergonomic issues and injuries will happen more often to …
Best DVD Duplicators of 2020
Just as the name implies, a DVD duplicator is used to duplicate or make several copies of a single DVD. Having the best DVD duplicators …
Deep customization is the new default for apps
If you take a look at the latest iOS update you will see a handful of new opportunities for users to tailor how their device …
Blizzard explains how Diablo IV is different from Diablo III
Blizzard said that Diablo IV is taking inspiration from every past entry in the franchise, but it’s hard to not feel like it’s distancing itself …
Diablo IV hands-on — Hello darkness, my old friend
I’m not usually a fan of grim and dark things. But seeing Diablo IV‘s gritty, bloody world in person made me feel good. Blizzard announced …
Brawl is Magic: The Gathering — Arena’s best mode. Make it permanent
I’ve fallen hard for Magic: The Gathering — Arena. Before 2018, I’d never played Magic (as I’ve detailed before). But now it’s my favorite card …
Twitter will ban political ads starting November 22
(Reuters) — Twitter will ban political advertising on its platform next month, the company’s chief executive said on Wednesday, a move that won praise from …
Fortnite’s black hole teases the future of entertainment
As audiences have embraced on-demand video services, algorithmic feeds, and an ever-growing number of digital “things to do,” our collective attentions have become hyper-fragmented. Yet …
The Best 4K Projectors of 2020
Welcome to our review of the best 4k projectors. Before presenting the best 4K projectors, we researched, reviewed and tested serval projectors and finally got …
Why Electronic Arts games are coming back to Steam (probably)
Electronic Arts is probably going to announce soon that it is bringing its games back to the Steam PC gaming portal. Last week, the Madden …
Best Image Stabilized Binoculars of 2020
With regards to picking the best image stabilizes binoculars, things can get somewhat entangled. This is on the grounds that there are numerous binoculars out …
Hacking the hackathon: Tips for women coders
Attending your first hackathon can be daunting. You overhear the team next to you talk about how they’ve won 10 hackathons, or another individual boast …
The Amazon earnings silver lining: advertising and streaming
This week saw intense media coverage of Amazon’s disappointing earnings, which tended to focus more on whether Jeff Bezos would lose his position as the …
Steam Remote Play Together sometimes stutters
Valve launched Remote Play Together for its Steam gaming service earlier this week. This feature enables you to stream a live local multiplayer session with …
10 Best Air Purifiers Every Home & Office Should Have in 2020
With regards to picking the best air purifiers for your home and office, things can get somewhat entangled. This is on the grounds that there …
6 Best laptop for Music Production Every Music Producer and DJ’s Should Have in 2020
With regards to picking the best laptop for music production, things can get somewhat entangled. This is on the grounds that there are numerous laptops …
Intel CEO: 7nm in 2021 will put us back on Moore’s Law cadence
Intel CEO Bob Swan said in an analyst call that the company is on target to return to a schedule of major manufacturing upgrades every …
Xbox One hardware falters, but software and services are bright spots
Xbox One hardware sales are continuing to fall, and that put a drag on Microsoft’s gaming division. Xbox revenues for Q1 of fiscal 2020 were …
8 Best Automatic Coffee Machines Every Home and Coffee Shop Should Have in 2020
Picking the best automatic coffee machines can get somewhat complicated especially when you’re buying for the first time. This is on the grounds that there …
Chrome 78 arrives with new APIs, dark mode improvements on Android and iOS
Google today launched Chrome 78 for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS. The release includes the CSS Properties and Values API, Native File System API, …
Best Gaming Monitor of 2020
With regards to picking the best gaming monitors, things can get somewhat entangled. This is on the grounds that there are numerous monitors available for …
Researchers use AI to detect schools of herring from acoustic data
Tracking the health of underwater species is critical to understanding the effects of climate change on marine ecosystems. Unfortunately, it’s a time-consuming process — biologists …
8 Best Washing Machines Every Home & Laundry Business Should Have in 2020
Welcome to our review of the best washing machines of 2020. Before arriving at this list of the best washing machines, we went into series …
Adjust panel: The state of user acquisition for mobile games
Acquiring users for mobile games isn’t the sexiest part of the game industry. But it’s a critical one. And so I was happy to get …
Harold Ryan interview — Why ProbablyMonsters is making a huge bet on triple-A games
Former Bungie CEO Harold Ryan showed everybody how to go big or go home earlier this month. He announced that his ProbablyMonsters is announcing it has …
Fortnite is finally getting better spatial audio
One of the reasons I couldn’t get into Fortnite was the sound. PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has an excellent and accurate sound model, and that made it …
7 Best Laptop Every Graphic Designer Should Have in 2020
With regards to picking the best laptops for graphic design, things can get somewhat entangled. This is on the grounds that there are numerous laptops, …
Nintendo Switch sales in North America pass 15 million
Nintendo announced today that sales of the Switch console have surpassed 15 million in North America. This includes the original console and the newer, portable-only Switch …
11 Best Camcorders Every Filmmaker Should Have in 2020
With regards to selecting the best camcorders, things can get somewhat entangled. This is on the grounds that there are numerous camcorders, each with its …
Modern cloud communications platforms are changing how work gets done
Presented by Dialpad There’s a new workplace reality, and it demands the kind of digital transformation too many businesses are dragging their feet in addressing. …
Mira marries NLP with computer vision to create a rich, search-powered shopping experience
Empowered by AI technologies, Mira wants to create a more enriching buying experience that combines millions of consumer product reviews, side-by-side comparisons, and click-through purchasing …
Google’s AI explains how image classifiers made their decisions
It’s often assumed that as the complexity of an AI system increases, it becomes invariably less interpretable. But researchers have begun to challenge that notion …
Darren Cox’s long and winding road to esports racing
Darren Cox took the long way to esports industry. He spent a couple of decades in the automotive industry at the alliance between carmakers Renault …
Anheuser-Busch, brand sponsorships, and esports: Jump in, the beer is fine
Joe Barnes didn’t have enough data to know if esports and Bud Light were a good mix. Market watches like Nielsen are paying attention to …
AI Weekly: In China, you can no longer buy a smartphone without a face scan
Picture a world in which the baseline requirement for a new smartphone is a facial recognition test. You needn’t imagine it — in China, beginning …
Best Workstations of 2020
When it comes to selecting the best workstations, things can get somewhat entangled. This is because there are numerous workstations available, each with its own …
LinkedIn’s AI automatically generates photo text descriptions
Are today’s computer vision technologies robust enough to generate text descriptions for photos across a range of domains? That’s the question scientists at LinkedIn have …
Best Gaming Laptops of 2020
Looking for the best gaming laptops? you just found the right place. Unlike regular laptops, gaming laptops are packed with top-notch features like high-end graphics, …
Google Brain’s ROBEL benchmark lets devs track AI quality on affordable robots
Benchmarks made to measure the performance of AI systems that control robots are often limited to expensive hardware designed for industrial environments that can cost …
Best Stereo Amplifiers of 2020
Welcome to our review of the best stereo amplifiers of 2020. In this post, you’ll find all the necessary information you need to know about …
PlayStation 5: The 4 features that matter (and 4 that don’t)
Sony is slowly building a public vision for the PlayStation 5. In an interview about the next-gen console with Wired today, it confirmed the PS5 …
The Best ID Card Printers of 2020
Welcome to our review of the best ID card printers. In this post, you’ll find all you need to know about ID card printers and …
Facebook’s AI uses schemas to teach robots to manipulate objects in less than 10 hours of training
How might a two-armed robot go about accomplishing a task like opening a bottle? Invariably, it’ll need to hold the bottle’s base with one hand …
Best Air Conditioners of 2020
If you want to know what the best air conditioners are, just stick with us as we take you through the list of the best …
How Latin American esports is poised for growth
Esports is going to be a global phenomenon, but most of the attention has focused on North America and Asia to date. The rest of …
Empire of Sin: Brenda Romero spent decades noodling on this mob strategy-RPG
With Brenda Romero‘s Empire of Sin game about the Chicago mob, the place came first. From the days when she was a curious child and …
Best 8 Servers For Small Business & Offices in 2020
If you’re looking to start a small business and you don’t have enough cash to run a cloud server, using one of these servers we’ve …
Call of Duty: Mobile marches past 35 million downloads
Activision Blizzard announced today Call of Duty: Mobile has surpassed 35 million downloads less than a week after its launch. The mobile version of Activision …
Bird raises $275 million at a $2.5 billion valuation
Santa Monica, California-based mobility startup Bird today announced a mammoth series D fundraising round that values the company at $2.5 billion, up from $2 billion …
The Best Network Server Racks of 2020
looking for the best network server racks? You’re definitely at the right spot. Network server racks are used basically to house Networking equipment like CPU, …
Deliveroo lost $284 million in 2018 amid bruising food delivery battle
Deliveroo’s revenues and losses grew rapidly in 2018, demonstrating both the soaring popularity of food delivery services and the financial fragility of these disruptive businesses. …
Best Scanners of 2020
Buying a standalone scanner might feels unnecessary for most people because most all in one printer do come with a scanner. However, if you’re in …
PUBG adds crossplay for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
PUBG‘s update today has enabled crossplay between PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The battle royale shooter has been a giant hit since its 2017 launch, …
Minecraft Marketplace August 2019: Lucky Blocks tops the charts
The Minecraft Marketplace didn’t have any major sales or events in August, but players still racked up 7,167,675 downloads for the month. That’s behind the …
10 Ways of Using a Smart Plug
Have you ever wondered what a smart plug is used for? Or you probably just use your smart plugs for one or two things, do …
How VR can help enterprises with training, beyond firing Barry
Virtual reality training company Talespin caught a lot of attention for a VR demo that taught employees how to sensitively fire an older employee named …
How ILMxLab built the Vader Immortal: Episode II virtual reality experience
I can never get the folks at ILMxLAB to acknowledge that their Vader Immortal virtual reality experience is actually a game. They call it an …
Apex Legends is getting a new map and character for Season 3
Developer Respawn announced today that it is launching a new map for its battle royale shooter Apex Legends. The studio will roll out this new …
Uber commits to reporting its rides’ environmental impact
Uber last year announced a three-year, $10 million investment in sustainable transportation, and it became a signatory to the Step Up Declaration for carbon mitigation …
Alexa gains multilingual mode, celebrity voices, and frustration detection
Alexa’s gaining more human-like speech — and learning to understand multiple languages at once. Starting today, Amazon’s launching a multilingual mode that understands Spanish and …