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Getty Images All of the troubles surrounding Facebook and Google can be traced back to a mistake, according to TED speaker and virtual reality visionary Jaron Lanier. At this point, Lanier said, we shouldn’t call companies like Facebook social networks. “Call them behavior-modification empires.” Lanier believes the only solution is to essentially turn back the […]
EXCLUSIVE: Finnish gaming companies have a strong record of on mobile, and the latest example is Small Giant Games, which is announcing today that it has raised $ 41 million in funding. The Helsinki-based studio of Empires & Puzzles has seen its first game generate more than 10 million downloads and $ 33 million in […]
PREVIEW: Microsoft is bringing back of the Age of Empires series, and it is starting with an updated version of the original game for $ 20 on February 20. This celebrates the 20th anniversary of the real-time strategy hit, and it also should prepare fans for the upcoming Age of Empires sequel that Microsoft has […]
AP Images Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest company, was worth $ 4.1 trillion in 2010. Dutch East India Company, established in the early 17th century, would be worth $ 7.9 trillion in today’s dollars. Before speculative bubbles could form around Dotcom companies (late-1990s) or housing prices (mid-2000s), some of the first financial bubbles formed from […]
Wikimedia Commons A “Histomap” published in 1931 aimed to show the relative power of various world civilizations going back to 2000 BC. While some of the concepts and historical evidence are somewhat dated, the chart is still an interesting and compelling attempt to visualize the rise and fall of empires. Imagine creating a timeline of […]
It’s been over a decade since Age of Empires III came out in 2005, but fans of the lauded RTS franchise will once again be subject to Gandhi’s merciless wrath: Age of Empires IV is officially in development. At Gamescom today, Microsoft announced the next title in the much-loved series — and that we’d be […]
Phoenix One Games hopes to build their realm with their first fantasy mobile strategy game, Guardian Kingdoms. The mobile strategy genre has proven to be incredibly lucrative, with Supercell (Clash of Clans) reporting $ 2.3 billion of revenue last year and Machine Zone (Game of War) bringing in an estimated $ 590,000 revenue daily. Since these games launched in […]
