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Google denies French watchdog’s ‘right to be forgotten’ demands
Google Inc released a statement on Thursday saying that it will refuse to comply with a French privacy group’s demands to apply the E.U.’s “right to be forgotten” law to Google’s services outside of Europe. Last month, the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés’ (CNIL), a French privacy watchdog, ordered Google to comply with users’ requests to have ...
Facebook’s massive ‘Aquila’ drone can fly for 90 days without landing
Facebook’s Connectivity Lab has been hard at work developing ambitious solutions to the challenge of providing internet connectivity to the roughly two-thirds of the world living without it. Today, the social network giant revealed that its aircraft and laser programs have reached major milestones that could soon put internet access in the hands of over 4 billion people. ...
PlayStation 4 could become the best-selling console ever
As successful as Nintendo Co Ltd’s Wii gaming console was, its impressive sales still pale in comparison to the reigning champion of console gaming, Sony Corp’s PlayStation 2. In a little over 12 years, the PlayStation 2 sold more than 150 million units worldwide, and now there is a chance that Sony could break its own record ...
Yahoo’s new Livetext app lets you video chat in silence
Today, Yahoo Inc unveiled a new video chat app called Livetext that is a little unusual: It has no sound. Instead of talking, the app instead lets you communicate via text while still being able to stream a live video feed. “From courier mail, to the telephone, to text messaging – as humans, we have ...
Shadowrun Returns devs working on a new Battletech game
Harebrained Schemes, the Seattle-based studio behind the immensely successful crowdfunded Shadowrun games, has announced that it is bringing back the classic robot combat game BattleTech through a new Kickstarter campaign that will launch this Fall. The studio has successfully funded several games through Kickstarter, including Shadowrun Returns, Shadowrun: Dragonfall, and Shadowrun: Hong Kong. Jordan Weisman, who also created the Shadowrun pen-and-paper RPG game, ...
Blizzard to announce the next WoW expansion at Gamescom—is it too soon?
Blizzard Entertainment Inc has announced that it plans on revealing the next expansion to World of Warcraft at next month’s Gamescom convention in Germany, but with the previous expansion, Warlords of Draenor, less than nine months old and only on its second content patch, is it too soon for the MMO behemoth to be moving on? According to ...
CD Projekt announces Witcher tabletop RPG game
For many years it has been common for tabletop RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons, Shadowrun, Call of Cthulhu, Vampire: The Masquerade and others to be adapted into video games, sometimes successfully and sometimes not. A growing trend over the last few years has seen the process happen in reverse, with tabletop adaptations being made of successful video game series like Dragon Age and Warcraft. ...
Nintendo shares spike thanks to stellar Q1 performance
This has been a turbulent month for Nintendo Co Ltd, which lost its longtime president Satoru Iwata when he suddenly passed away at the age of 55 due to complications related to a bile duct tumor. The Japanese game company has struggled to cope with the loss of Iwata, who had led the company for over ...
Razer changes its mind on Ouya “Free the Games” fund, will pay indie devs $600k
It seems like only yesterday Razer Inc was adamantly claiming that its acquisition of Ouya Inc’s software assets did not include the responsibility to pay indie devs who took part in Ouya’s “Free the Games” program, which promised to match contributions to games developed for Ouya that were successfully funded through Kickstarter. Come to think ...
Ouya reportedly not paying ‘Free the Games’ developers, Razer denies responsibility
Yesterday, gaming peripheral maker Razer Inc announced that it would be buying the software assets to the Ouya microconsole, but despite that deal it looks like Ouya Inc will be unable to fulfill some of its financial obligations. In particular, Ouya is apparently not paying the debt owed to independent game developers as part of the ...
