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It’s been nearly a year and a half since the augmented reality game Pokemon Go took the world by storm, but that game’s developers are now working on something a little more magical. A Harry Potter ARG called Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is in the works from Niantic Labs, Warner Bros. Interactive, and Portkey Games. Read what we know about […]
Enlarge / The new Oreo Easter egg. Google gave us 64 days to get used to Android 8.0 Oreo being the latest version of Android. While only one third-party phone has upgraded to the latest version, Google is already dropping a developer preview for the next version of Android on the world. Two days ago it released the Android 8.1 Developer Preview, […]
Psyonix’s car-soccer game Rocket League is already a megahit with 36 million registered players across its digital and retail versions, but now the studio is working with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment to bring its retail version to even more people around the world. WB and Psyonix have not said which regions will get this new […]
Enlarge Google just launched the developer preview of Android 8.1. The headline feature of the OS update seems to be a new “Neural Networks API” (NNAPI), which Google says “provides apps with hardware acceleration for on-device machine learning operations.” “Hardware acceleration” sounds a lot like an API that will make use of the “Pixel Visual […]
David Ryder/Getty Images Proposals are due on Thursday from all cities vying to become the future site of Amazon HQ2. Donald Bren, the richest real estate developer in the US, wrote a letter on behalf of his company to Jeff Bezos, offering to finance the entire $ 5 billion project. Irvine, California is already home […]
The announcement video for Jon Burt’s Sonic 3D Blast: Director’s Cut At this point, retro-game lovers are well used to fan-made “hacks” of classic titles that can do anything from adding modern players to Tecmo Bowl to adding an egg-throwing Yoshi to Sonic the Hedgehog 2. What we can’t recall seeing before, though, is the […]
Publisher Electronic Arts and developer DICE just finished the beta test period for the upcoming sci-fi shooter Star Wars: Battlefront II, and while fans had a lot of nice things to say about the way it plays, a lot of people were loudly wondering about its business model. Battlefront II uses loot boxes, and the […]
Associated Press/James MacPherson DAPL developer picks up the tab for North Dakota’s policing costs — and it ain’t cheap. Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners wired the state $ 15 million Thursday to help cover law enforcement expenses associated with the protests over the Dakota Access Pipeline. The funds will help alleviate the more than $ 22 […]
EXCLUSIVE: Team17 announced today that it’ll publish Pathea Games’s My Time at Portia, a colorful open-world role-playing game. This marks its first partnership with a Chinese studio, and it follows an announcement earlier this year about the first time it signed on with a Brazilian developer. My Time at Portia is raising money on the […]
Soon, you won’t have to rely on just yelling or typing in all-caps to express yourself in-game. Faceware Technologies is teaming up with Cloud Imperium Games to bring facial animation to Star Citizen. The new Face Over Internet Protocol (FOIP) feature uses webcams to detect expressions and project them onto players’ avatars. Faceware will also be […]
