Teslagrad developer Rain Games has announced a follow-up to its lauded 2014 metroidvania with World to the West.Set in the same universe as Teslagrad, World to the West opts for a top-down perspective that's more Zelda than Metroid, though it seems to retain its action puzzler ro … | Continue reading
Continuing with GravityBox, here is a quick tool to add a small app drawer to your navigation bar. A tidy little Android customization for your root device. | Continue reading
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Called the X-Prize for music the Guthman Musical Instrument Competition pits multiple musicians and makers against each other at Georgia Tech’s Ferst Center for the Arts. A group of judges including Jazz great Pat Metheny will pick their favorites and you, the viewer, can jam alo … | Continue reading
Peakview is the investment advisory arm of Shengjing Group and the largest global fund of funds in China. It also has millions of dollars to invest in U.S.-based venture capital funds, it says. This year. Right now. It’s a very different message than VCs are receiving from many o … | Continue reading
ICX Media, a Washington, D.C. startup promising to help video creators find an audience and make money, announced today that it has raised $2.5 million in seed funding. The company was founded by Michael Avon, Tom MacIsaac, Steve McCord and Joey McCord (pictured above). Three of … | Continue reading
VIDEO: Ty Lawson will join the Indiana Pacers for the rest of this season after being bought out by the Rockets HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — Ty Lawson didn’t go long without a team to play for. Two days after being waived by the Houston Rockets, Lawson has agreed to a deal with the I … | Continue reading
Bandai Namco's free-to-play dungeon-crawling adventure Lost Reavers is coming to the Wii U eShop on 28th April, Nintendo announced during its latest Nintendo Direct presentation.An open beta will be available starting 14th April.Formerly known as Project Treasure, the action-RPG … | Continue reading
We really liked Wizards & Wagons [$4.99] when it came out back in November. The game was our game of the week, and we really liked it in our review, too, partly due to its dynamic gameplay and addictive quality. Now, Android users can join in on the fun since Wizards & Wagons has … | Continue reading
Nintendo detailed the American releases of a handful of Japanese role-playing games (JRPGs) during its Nintendo Direct presentation this afternoon, news that'll surely excite US fans who have been waiting for them with bated breath.Atlus' music-RPG fusion Tokyo Mirage Sessions #F … | Continue reading
ANALYSIS: Facebook released its new interactive, full-screen mobile ad unit called Canvas last week. It gives advertisers an elegant, rich-media way to engage users directly within Facebook’s page. Agencies are already lapping it up and experimenting with it to showcase their pro … | Continue reading
Locally stored data on Amazon Fire devices is no longer encrypted. Anyone who upgrades their Kindle Fire, Fire Phone, Amazon Fire HD, or Amazon Fire TV Stick to Fire OS 5 will have local information left vulnerable to cyber attacks and stored in plain text. Amazon forum members f … | Continue reading
Facebook has teamed up with Spotify to create a new system that makes sharing music a breeze. Or, at least, that’s what they’re trying to do. | Continue reading
With $6.5 million in funding from Crosslink Capital, Upfront Ventures, 500 Startups and others, Comparably is launching a platform for employment and salary information. The Santa Monica-based startup says its site will make it easier to find whether or not your salary is competi … | Continue reading
The fantastic rhythm action series Rhythm Heaven is getting the video game equivalent of a greatest hits album. Today Nintendo announced the next game in the series, called Rhythm Heaven Megamix, which brings together the best levels from each game in the series, including the Ga … | Continue reading
In the tech industry, compensation is a tricky beast. Although startups have it in their best interest to run “lean” — onboarding employees with below-market salaries and padding offers with equity to keep overhead costs low — it can backfire when the company doesn’t alter that a … | Continue reading
Docstoc cofounder Jason Nazar is back with a new startup called Comparably which focuses on providing transparency about what workers are paid and insights about company culture. The service breaks down compensation based on various factors including company size, location, money … | Continue reading
Identifier: HP-PJ-2016Pillar: 3rd Health ProgrammeOpening Date: Deadline: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 17:00:00 (Brussels local time) | Continue reading
I built a pure CSS text carousel because I couldn't find one I liked. Here's how I did it, and tweaks for later. | Continue reading
Robots look better in pink. Nintendo revealed Kirby: Planet Robobot for the 3DS during its Direct stream today. The new title is a 2D platformer similar to other Kirby games like Triple Deluxe, which also came out for the 3DS. Kirby is one of Nintendo’s biggest franchises, and hi … | Continue reading
Monster Hunter X is coming to the western world as Monster Hunter: Generations this summer on 3DS.This marks the first game in the franchise to let you play… | Continue reading
Nintendo used its latest Direct to announce an all-new Kirby game for the 3DS in the style of Triple Deluxe, with Kirby Robobo Planet due out on the handheld on June 10th. Robobo Planet is to launch alongside a new range of Amiibo, too, with Kirby, Meta Knight, Waddle Dee and Kin … | Continue reading
3DS owners rejoice: During the latest Nintendo Direct, the company announced it is bringing the Super Nintendo to your handheld device. Well, for some of you, anyway. The update will only arrive for owners of the New 3DS and New 3DS XL. The best part? The games are arriving very … | Continue reading
If you aren't familiar with the manga and anime Attack on Titan, you're missing out on what is a very unique story in a very unique universe. If anime isn't your thing, you'll have the opportunity to explore the world of Attack in Titan on your mobile since GameSamba, Funimation, … | Continue reading
Fire Emblem Fates will launch in Europe on 20th May, Nintendo has just announced.Both the Birthright and Conquest versions of the game will arrive on the sa… | Continue reading
Campaign of the Week: Smart Moves - See how Editors Strike a Balance Between Workouts, Weekends, and Beyond. Source: Who What Wear Why we like it: Brought to you by New Balance, this native ad in Who What Wear, brings relevant value for the reader with content that is easy to nav … | Continue reading
Docker today announced that it has acquired Conductant, a small startup that focused on orchestration. While you have probably never heard of Conductant — and as far as we can see, the company doesn’t even have a web presence and has never received outside funding — this acquisit … | Continue reading
Capturing the key moments of the 2016 Oscar ceremony— when Spotlight was crowned Best Picture and Leo finally got his award— took a team of nearly 20 Getty Images staffers, lightning fast reflexes and just a little help from robots.Getty Images, one of the biggest photo services … | Continue reading
Nintendo's offbeat Paper Mario series is returning to home consoles later this year. As the name suggests, Paper Mario: Color Splash is about returning color to a monochrome world. How do you add color to the world, you ask? It's simple: hit things with a magic paint hammer. That … | Continue reading
Super Nintendo favorites Pilotwings, Super Mario World, and F-Zero will be available for download from the Nintendo eShop beginning today. The SNES downloads will be limited to New Nintendo 3DS and New Nintendo 3DS XL, meaning Nintendo 2DS and original Nintendo 3DS hardware won't … | Continue reading
Super Nintendo games are finally coming to the 3DS' Virtual Console, with Earthbound and Super Mario World available from tonight on the eShop. There's a catch, though - only the most recent iteration of the hardware, the new 3DS, will support the games. We're not sure whether yo … | Continue reading
Docker, the startup that rose to prominence by pushing container technology for wrapping up application code, today announced that it has acquired Conductant, a secretive early-stage startup founded by people with experience building software to automate the process of deploying … | Continue reading
It’s only a paper game. Nintendo announced Paper Mario: Color Splash for the Wii U today. Mario is Nintendo’s biggest star, and any new game featuring the plumber is a big deal. The Mario franchise has sold over 210 million copies. This is the first Mario role-playing game to com … | Continue reading
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis are on track to sell roughly 50,000 copies of their new album This Unruly Mess I’ve Made, a total that seems unremarkable until you put it in the right context. Their first-week sales are being dwarfed by those of The 1975, the ambitious British pop band w … | Continue reading
Good luck! In today’s Nintendo Direct, the company revealed that Star Fox Zero will come out for the Wii U on April 22. The physical version will also come with Star Fox: Guard, a tower-defense style game also for the Wii U. You can also download both games separately as digital … | Continue reading
JPMorgan has unveiled a blockchain project dubbed Juno, presented this week at a meeting of the Hyperledger Project. | Continue reading
When RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 [$4.99] hit iOS a few months ago, most players were happy to see it but would almost immediately add "I wish RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 made it to iOS, too." Well, it seems all those players' wishes have been heard since Chris Sawyer is currently working o … | Continue reading
In the United States, doctors are dealing with a changing landscape. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, insurance companies are paying them for the quality of care rather than for the number of patients served. But to properly measure this requires hundreds of hours manually extr … | Continue reading
We take a closer look at the third device in Samsung's latest mid-range series, in this in-depth Samsung Galaxy A5 (2016) review! | Continue reading
Amazon’s Fire Phone may have been a surprisingly auspicious failure, I keep thinking as I watch the expansion of Alexa, the company’s cloud-based virtual assistant.Artificial intelligence is the future, specifically, voice-controlled AI that allows you to interact with a multitud … | Continue reading
Instagram has decided to block links in user profiles to private messaging apps Telegram and Snapchat. The change was made quietly and first publicly noted by Telegram's official Twitter account only yesterday. No other social networks appear to be affected, meaning you can still … | Continue reading
A 1970's Czechoslovakian sci-fi comedy imagined the selfie stick four decades before the accessory became the weapon of choice for chill parents on vacation. Reddit user ZaHuBa posted a GIF of the fictional gadget, which appears early in Zabil Jsem Einsteina, Panove. The tiny cam … | Continue reading
A resume objective is a brief, clearly written statement that explains your main skills and career goals. It is traditionally included at the beginning of your resume. Resume objectives get a lot of bad press. Many career and job-hunting experts say that including a resume object … | Continue reading
Today saw the deadline for amicus briefs in the heated iPhone security trial, and dozens of companies took the opportunity to file in support of Apple. Twitter, Reddit, Github, Ebay, and CloudFlare submitted a brief with 12 other startup companies, emphasizing the values of priva … | Continue reading
Guardtime is to deploy a blockchain system to secure over 1 million patient records within Estonia's eHealth programme. | Continue reading
The m50x is well-priced even at $170. For $117, it's an absolute steal. Grab this professional-quality set of headphones while the price is at a near all-time low. | Continue reading
Over the heated battle between Apple and the FBI over the laws and ethics surrounding unlocking the phone of the San Bernadino shooter, many companies have publicly come out in support of Tim Cook and his company’s desire to keep privacy secure at the device level. Today, accordi … | Continue reading
ANALYSIS: Despite the volume of, ahem, material revealed prior to the show, this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain still proved to be one of the more exciting conventions in recent years. Almost every major phone manufacturer had significant products to show off, s … | Continue reading