[ad_1] With the release of the acclaimed Final Fantasy VII Remake, we’ve seen a ton of great deals built around the older Final Fantasy games, which is the perfect time for those who want to come back and play some of their favorite games. PS4 and Xbox One players have …
Read More »Reggie Fils-Aime is starting a podcast for charity
[ad_1] Reggie Fils-Aime, the beloved former president of Nintendo of America, is jumping on the podcast bandwagon. He is starting a new show alongside gaming journalist Harold Goldberg appropriately called “Conversation Games with Reggie and Harold”. The series features Fils-Aime and Goldberg speaking to “high-profile” executives in the gaming world, …
Read More »The video game industry is still in the ‘awareness’ phase to help climate change.
[ad_1] One of the biggest impacts the media can have on environmentalism is to spread awareness that can then lead to practical actions like legislation. Rachel Carson’s book, Silent springs, documented the environmental effects caused by the indiscriminate use of pesticides that helped lead to the environmental movement in 1962. …
Read More »COVID-19 could accelerate ‘maturity of Chinese players’ in the free-to-play market
[ad_1] The free-to-play market is gigantic worldwide, including the hundreds of millions of players within China. Nielsen’s SuperData Research Group found that revenue from free games increased 6 percent to $ 87.1 billion last year (about 80 percent of the total $ 109.4 billion for digital gaming revenue) . Research …
Read More »Google Duplex now speaks Spanish, starts calling companies in Spain to update hours
[ad_1] Google today launched Google Duplex, its AI chat agent that can make appointments over the phone, in Spain to automate the updating of business hours in Google Search and Google Maps. For the first time, he is speaking in Spanish: Duplex previously only spoke in English. The expansion follows …
Read More »Watching Bugatti Chiron easily reaches 261 MPH in a new video series
[ad_1] The Bugatti Chiron is already four years old. It sounds like we were getting poetic about the hypercar’s breakneck top speed of 261 mph (420 km / h) yesterday, but it debuted in March 2016 at the Geneva Motor Show. Since then, we’ve seen a lot of videos showing …
Read More »Why has the television writers room come to the development of the game?
[ad_1] Game development is a complicated and time consuming machine. And studios are always looking for something to improve the efficiency of that process. That’s why many publishers are embracing the writer’s room formula that has long dominated television production. During a panel at GamesBeat Summit 2020, HBO Director of …
Read More »The foldable iPhone could beat Samsung Galaxy Fold 2 with this advance
[ad_1] The Samsung Galaxy Fold 2 is rumored to be a great update on the original, but it could have serious competition from Apple’s future foldable iPhones, thanks to Apple’s latest battery patent. The patent is titled Flexible battery structure, and presents a number of potential designs for how Apple …
Read More »The PS5 may have a spoiler lock feature – this is how it might work
[ad_1] The PlayStation 5 could have a spoiler-lock feature that would prevent players from viewing content that reveals parts of games they haven’t seen themselves. That’s according to a USPO patent filed by Sony (via Inverse) in October 2019, which outlines plans for a “cross-platform spoiler blocking service.” According to …
Read More »Hundreds ‘broken’ by the death of a nurse who ‘gave his life’ to the NHS
[ad_1] Hundreds of people were heartbroken over the death of a nurse who “gave her life” to the NHS. Janice Glassey became ill with coronavirus just three days before retiring, but sadly she died a month later. The 66-year-old woman worked as a dedicated and beloved nurse for 14 years …
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