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GamesBeat Summit 2021 #GBSummit returns with two days of content and networking designed for industry executives. April 28-29, 2021 Register Now After the disappointing Warcraft III: Reforged, I wondered if I really wanted a Diablo II remake. When Blizzard announced Diablo II: Resurrected earlier this year, I wanted to remain skeptical. It felt a little […]
The power of audio From podcasts to Clubhouse, branded audio is more important than ever. Learn how brands are increasing customer loyalty and personalization with these best practices. Register Now Presented by Dolby Labs Consumers are spending 30% more time listening to spoken word audio, including podcasts and news, and 43% listen daily. That’s why […]
GamesBeat x Oculus Venues Join Dean Takahashi, Ramez Naam, and Tim Chang online for “Science Fiction, Tech, and Games.” Hosted in VR and 2D February 17th, 10:00am PT Learn More Usually when I beat a Japanese role-playing game, I take a break and play something a bit shorter and faster-paced. When I finished Dragon Quest […]
This year, technology firms big and small stepped up to help with the Covid-19 pandemic and other thorny challenges. Some years, I have to dig deep to come up with worthy honorees for the Good Tech Awards, my annual column that honors what I consider the most humane and altruistic tech projects of the year. […]
I was never the biggest Left 4 Dead fan, despite the huge impact both it and its sequel had on the world of gaming. Since then, players have been clamoring for a third game, as Valve retained the IP and developer Turtle Rock moved on to asymmetrical PvE game Evolve, which released in 2015 to […]
Enlarge / Wonder Woman is going to be extra shiny on modern TVs. Warner Bros. Wonder Woman 1984 will be the first film to stream in 4K HDR (UltraHD) on HBO Max when it premieres on the service in the US alongside a theatrical release on December 25. It will also stream with Dolby Atmos […]
In a recently released video, what appears to be a tense Brett Kavanaugh speaks before members of the United States Congress. “It’s time to set the record straight,” he begins. Over the next few minutes, the Supreme Court Justice admits it’s possible that he committed sexual assault and expresses remorse for the way he responded […]
EA People who play video games for long periods of time tend to report feeling happier than those who do not, a study has indicated. The Oxford Internet Institute research focused on two games: Nintendo’s Animal Crossing and EA’s Plants vs Zombies. In an unusual step, the developers of the games shared anonymised data about […]
Get the most out of your game’s subscription plans Best practices for designing and managing your subscription strategy Access guide here PlayStation 5 and the new Xbox systems are out, and GamesBeat editors Jeff Grubb and Mike Minotti talk about how they’re feeling about next-gen — er, current-gen gaming. Mike also ranks the PS5 launch […]
Genevieve Poblano/Digital Trends Graphic If you’ve been following the development of SpaceX’s Starlink project to create global broadband internet, you’ll have noticed that the company is regularly launching not just individual satellites, but whole batches of 60 satellites at a time. These batches form a network in the sky, called a satellite constellation, which allows […]
The OnePlus 8T has a monochrome camera in its quad-camera setup, and after first hearing about it, it became the No. 1 feature on the new phone I wanted to try. My excitement comes from enjoying taking photos with the monochrome camera on the Huawei P10 and the P20 Pro, and then lamenting its disappearance […]
Trailer for Feels Good Man. There’s no shortage of documentaries about our current political climate or the fact that the Internet might be bad, but Feels Good Man focuses on the craziest intersection of these two modern realities: Pepe, the cartoon frog. If you’re aware of Pepe already, chances are it’s because the character has become […]
VB Transform Watch every session from the AI event of the year On-Demand Watch Now COVID-19 means work, learning, and life in general are increasingly happening online. Shouldn’t that mean more cloud usage and thus more cloud revenue? Yes, and it does. But that doesn’t necessarily translate to more cloud revenue growth for the three […]
The email hit my inbox in mid-May. The reader kept things succinct. Subject: Remember Domain? Body: I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/12/the-domain-review-the-internet-can-be-worse-than-humanity-ravaging-epidemics/ Two months into a global pandemic obviously sticking around for a bit, I can’t say I had put much thought into a sci-fi B-movie I saw once several years back. […]
It’s been a terrible week for Facebook, with policymakers and users alike demanding answers from the social network over its Cambridge Analytica fiasco, in which the data analysis firm improperly accessed the personal information of about 50 million Facebook users. But the backlash has had at least one major beneficiary. That’s Mastodon, a Twitter-like social network that has had a […]