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Batman: Arkham Knight patch for PC is coming “in the next few weeks”
While Batman: Arkham Knight may be a game of the year contender on consoles, the title has yet to make its way back to the PC. It has been nearly two months since the game’s publisher, Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment, was forced to pull the game from digital store shelves due to the laughably bad state of ...
eSports owes its success to the accessibility of its players, says Azubu CEO
The eSports industry has continued to expand at a rapid pace over the last few years, especially after the growth in popularity of livestreaming services like Twitch. Ian Sharpe, CEO of the eSports-focused livestreaming platform Azubu, says that eSports has become a global phenomenon, attracting both players and fans from hundreds of countries around the world, ...
Giphy launches ‘Giphy Cam’, a new app to share your life in gifs
The humble gif has come a long way from the days of rotating “Under Construction” signs and dancing babies and hamsters, and nowhere is that more obvious than Giphy.com, a repository of animated gifs of just about anything you can imagine, as well as a few you can’t. Most gifs on Giphy are pulled from things ...
SteamSpy creator: Big games don’t expand markets, they create new ones
Valve Corp’s Steam client may be one of the most popular platforms for buying digital games on the PC, but analyst Sergey Galyonkin, creator of Steam user statistics website SteamSpy, says that you can’t trust the raw numbers when it comes to gauging the size of your audience for a game launch. “When marketing research is ...
Swiftkey emoji study proves your apps are spying on your poop jokes
The makers of the popular smartphone keyboard app Swiftkey recently released a study revealing data on the most popular emoji used in each state. Well, sort of. The data does not actually show which emoji are used the most. That would be kind of pointless since it would probably be one of the handful of standard smilies that ...
Intel and Razer team up to launch a 3D-sensing camera for game streaming and VR
Gaming peripheral maker Razer Inc. is teaming up with Intel Corp. to create a new type of desktop camera that uses Intel’s RealSense 3D technology to create “significantly enhanced game broadcasting and VR gaming capabilities.” One of the features of the new camera include automatic background removal, which would be a welcome addition for Twitch streamers, ...
CastAR receives $15 million in funding to make affordable AR for the whole family
While virtual reality headsets like Oculus Rift and HTC Vive are making most of the headlines these days, augmented reality is quickly catching up in hype and popularity. This is good news for AR startups like CastAR, a Mountain View-based company founded in 2013 by two former Valve Software employees who raised over $1 million on ...
Gearbox retains ‘Duke Nukem’ rights after settlement with 3D Realms
Gearbox Software has announced the end of its lawsuit against fellow Dallas-area game studio 3D Realms, confirming that Gearbox is now the rightful holder of the rights to the Duke Nukem game franchise. The development cycle of Duke Nukem Forever is somewhat infamous in the gaming world. After numerous delays, the game’s creators started listing the release date as “whenever it’s ...
Star Citizen creator tells backers delays are just part of game development
Every crowdfunded game wants to be Star Citizen when it grows up. After earning over $2.1 million from a Kickstarter campaign, the game continued raising money through its website, and so far it has received well over $87 million in total funding. At one point, the game held a Guinness World Record for the most crowdfunded project ever. ...
New ‘Amiiqo’ device lets you spoof Nintendo’s Amiibo data
If you want to unlock all of the exclusive game content that comes with Nintendo Co Ltd.’s Amiibo but don’t have the space in your Malibu Mario Dreamhouse for more figures, then Amiiqo may be the device for you. Amiibo are Nintendo’s incredibly popular toys-to-life collectibles that use near field communications (NFC) technology to access unique ...
