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Massively successful “Halo 5: Guardians” launch proves people still love Halo
The Halo franchise could easily be considered one the defining game series for Microsoft’s Xbox consoles, going all the way back to the first game that was released on the original Xbox system nearly 14 years ago, and the recent launch of Halo 5: Guardians proves that the Halo name still carries plenty of weight with console gamers. “One ...
Blizzard tests out a co-op mode for Hearthstone this week only
Blizzard Entertainment Inc’s enormously successful card battler, Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, has focused entirely on 1v1 competition since it launched in Spring of 2014, but now the studio is testing out a possible co-operative mode under the guise of the game’s weekly Tavern Brawl event. Blizzard announced the event in a blog post, saying: Combine forces ...
How a data scientist sold Twitch on a ‘recently watched’ tab
Amazon-owned video game livestreaming platform Twitch.tv has enough viewers to rival some television channels, which is quite a feat for a site that (for the most part) specializes in live content focusing on a very specific niche. It would be easy to assume that Twitch viewers are interested in watching all sorts of games, but according to ...
Steep drop in World of Warcraft subscriptions levels out at 5.5 million players
Blizzard Entertainment’s World of Warcraft experienced a massive hemorrhage of its player base earlier this year, dropping nearly in half from a peak of over 10 million subscribers in November 2014 to just 5.6 million by August. While the nearly 11-year-old MMO is still losing players, the bleeding seems to have slowed as Blizzard revealed that ...
Facebook’s AI can tell you what’s in your photos
Facebook has come a long way since the days of being a hookup site for college kids. The social network does a lot of other things now too, including groundbreaking artificial intelligence research that focuses on creating computer programs that can intelligently answer questions about text and images. Today, the company revealed that Facebook’s AI Research ...
Too many customer annoyances make you ripe for disruption | #IBMinsight
Disruption can’t always be easy to predict, but if your customers find dealing with your industry to be a pain, then you might want to watch out, said Jim Harris, international bestselling author and journalist focusing on disruptive innovation, sustainability and energy. “What are the classic problems that customers don’t like about dealing with your industry?” ...
PlayStation won’t kill Vita, but it’s focus “has shifted to PS4 and PlayStation VR”
In September, Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida told an audience at EGX that “the climate is not healthy” for dedicated portable gaming devices like PS Vita, but now Yoshida has reassured fans that Sony has no plans to drop the Vita anytime soon. However, he also said PlayStation itself has little in ...
BattleTech reaches final Kickstarter goal of $2.5 million with one day left
Kickstarter veteran Harebrained Schemes LLC has done it again with an incredibly successful crowdfunding campaign for the first new BattleTech strategy video game in over 20 years. With barely one day remaining in the campaign, the studio has reached its final $2.5 million stretch goal, which will allow for the development of a PVP (player versus player) multiplayer game ...
Batman: Arkham Knight still broken on PC, Warner Bros offering refunds
It seems that four months was not quite enough time to fix the atrocious PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight, and publisher Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment has announced that it will be offering refunds for the game through the end of the year. “We are very sorry that many of our customers continue to be unhappy ...
SXSW announces day-long online harassment summit in response to cancelled gaming sessions
After receiving numerous threats of on-site violence, annual multimedia festival South by Southwest (SXSW) announced that it would be cancelling two video game related sessions, one on fighting online harassment and one led by supporters of the controversial GamerGate movement. The cancellation sparked an intensely negative reaction on social media, with many people accusing SXSW of ...