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Sensai launches new platform that lets companies leverage their unstructured data
Nearly every established company has a pile of unstructured data that is just waiting to be used, but taking the eclectic mountains of old reports, call transcripts, emails and other files and turning them into something usable often requires a huge investment not only in systems capable of sifting through all of the data, but also in a team of ...
Some Twitch streamers are using illicit botnets to inflate viewer counts
Getting high viewer counts on Twitch.tv livestreams is not easy. Some already well known brands or personalities, such as the recently launched Geek & Sundry channel, have the advantage of a built in audience that starts watching right from the beginning, but for unknown users creating an account for the first time, it can be an ...
MOBAs may soon outsell MMOs in F2P market, says analyst
The free-to-play (F2P) market is a growing genre of games that use microtransactions for revenue rather than charging a one time, fixed game price or a recurring subscription fee. For some time, MMOs have dominated this market thanks to their huge audience and wide variety of cosmetic and quality of life items, but Ed Zhao, an ...
Facebook chases Chinese ad revenue despite being blocked in the country
While its social network might still be banned in China, Facebook is chasing revenue within the country that houses a population roughly equivalent in size to its own user base. The Wall Street Journal reports that Facebook has stepped up efforts to entice Chinese advertisers to adopt its platform, even if they might be unable to use ...
British principals threaten parents with police for letting kids play violent games
Video games have taken the blame for any number of degenerate behavior in youths ever since the industry was created, and violent game series like Grand Theft Auto and Call of Duty have given opponents even more ammo to paint games as a scapegoat for everything from minor misbehavior to mass murder. Now a group of British ...
Epic Games reveals three more Unreal dev grant winners
Earlier this year, Epic Games announced that it would be giving out grants to worthy developers using Unreal Engine 4 for their games, and today the North Carolina-based studio has announced three new winners, bringing the number of to nine with grants totalling $139,000 so far. “There’s not any sort of contract involved in this,” ...
Facebook helping iOS devs by open-sourcing its React Native framework
Developers looking to make the leap from web to mobile apps often have a tough road ahead of them, as the two formats can have very different requirements and code structures. Facebook is looking to make this transition a little bit easier by open-sourcing its React Native framework for all users. “There are many reasons the native ...
The solution to Virtual Reality nausea is…Virtual Reality noses?
One of the greatest challenges facing developers of Virtual Reality programs is the tendency for people using their devices to occasionally become violently ill. At a session during Game Developers Conference 2015 in San Francisco, video game legend and Oculus VR Inc CTO John Carmack spoke about the concern he and the team at Oculus had ...
GameStop posts weak Q4, continues shifting away from storefront game sales
GameStop Corps posted some less than stellar results for the fourth quarter of its fiscal year, overshadowing the Dallas-based game seller’s otherwise strong showing in 2014. The store reported $3.48 billion for its 2014 Q4 earnings, missing its earlier projection of $3.6 billion by over 3 percent. Its overall earnings for 2014 were up slightly from the previous ...
Gamified brain-trainer Memorado raises $3.3 million in Series A funding
“Gym for the brain” app Memorado made headlines back in September when it announced that it had quietly raised $1.3 million in its seed round earlier that year, and that its service had already been adopted by a user base of over 1 million users. Now the German company has announced that has raised an additional ...