The Binding of Isaac developers Edmund McMillen and James Id have announced a new game entitled The Legend of Bum-boMcMillen called the upcoming project a "turn based puzzle RPG type thingy thats randomly generated" in its announcement on The Binding of Isaac's blog.He noted that … | Continue reading
When you get home from a vacation, the last thing you want to do is comb through your photos. Google Photos isn’t asking you to any longer, and will now create ‘smart albums’ based on location and time. Here’s how it works: Google Photos knows the location and time you snapped ph … | Continue reading
Traditionally, the largest barrier to podcasting has been the complexity of steps and multitude of programs it takes to go from recording to editing to publishing. Cast is simplifying this process with its web-based podcasting platform that lets you record, edit, and publish all … | Continue reading
It's going from bad to worse for the UK video game development industry. After Microsoft closed down Lionhead, Sony has now closed down Driveclub developer Evolution.In a statement Sony said it would try to move some staff onto other projects, but redundancies are expected.Evolut … | Continue reading
Advertising - Not too long ago, marketers were focused on behavioral- and audience-based buying. Now, the trend is account-based marketing. But those former trends can teach you a lot about account-based marketing. | Continue reading
Fallout 4 is packed with stuff, including cool holotape games you can play on terminals. These holotape games are based on famous retro arcade games, such as Donkey Kong and Pitfall. Now, with the arrival of the Automatron add-on, a new holotape has been added to the mix.THERE MA … | Continue reading
Travel is fun and glamorous and all, but we all know what packing your backpack and heading for the amazon is really about: Making your friends and family a deep shade of jealous green. Amsterdam-based Polarsteps just raised a seed round to help making that easier. The company ra … | Continue reading
A New York startup called Mine Labs has started a metadata protocol based on blockchain technology called Mediachain that uses the Interplanetary File System (IPFS), a “hypermedia distribution protocol,” to protect rights to digital works, according to Nasdaq. Other blockchain-ba … | Continue reading
Alongside the brand new P-Series announced today, Vizio also revealed that it's releasing a lineup of speakers and soundbars later this year. Just like the TVs, the new audio gear is based on Google Cast, with sleek designs that make it evident Vizio is going after Sonos' grip on … | Continue reading
Surprise! The PlayStation Vita port of Firaxis' wonderful 2012 turn-based strategy game is out now.It popped up overnight on the PlayStation Store. There, XCOM: Enemy Unknown Plus costs £15.99 and weighs in at 2.2GB.Enemy Unknown Plus has yet to be announced by publisher 2K, but … | Continue reading
Black Swan, a tech and data science firm based in London, has received £3m (about $4.3 million) in funding in a round led by Mitsui. According to a statement, the company will use the newly procured funds to further develop NEST – its proprietary data unification platform – and … | Continue reading
RecomN, a platform that helps Malaysian and Indonesian users find service providers for important projects, will enter new Southeast Asian markets after raising $1 million in seed funding from Gobi Partners. The company was launched in July 2014 and inspired by expensive mishaps … | Continue reading
London-based blockchain intelligence firm Elliptic has closed a $5 million Series A funding round led by Paladin Capital Group, a Washington-based VC specializing in disruptive security applications. Santander InnoVentures, KRW Schindler, Digital Currency Group and previous inve … | Continue reading
Dragon’s Tale is one of the most popular, unique and original Bitcoin Casino Role Play games to have come out in the recent times. The game was launched in 2012 and it is the home of hundreds of casino-based mini-games that players won’t find anywhere else in the gambling history … | Continue reading
There have been talks about the use of blockchain technology in online voting for a long time. Until now, it was either theoretical or experimental. But now, it is going to be a reality soon. Sooner than expected to be precise. The first ever online blockchain based voting in the … | Continue reading
You probably have your credit card and other payment information keyed into at least ten different services right now, all of which are likely based over a mobile app or website. For a long time, the effective user detection has been the preserve of large payment providers and we … | Continue reading
Georgios Kasselakis has the same kinds of concerns as most VCs: How to raise money, how to grow the money investors provide him, how to identify the most promising startups. Unlike most VCs, Kasselakis and his seed-stage firm, OpenFund, are based in Athens, Greece, a country that … | Continue reading
Apple's latest iOS 9.3 update will be available today. While it's only a minor release, it does have a surprising amount of features for iPads and iPhones. The biggest addition is a new Night Shift mode that shifts the color temperature of the display based on the time and locati … | Continue reading
GreatHorn, a six-person cloud security platform focused on stopping phishing attacks, has raised $2.25 million in seed funding led by ff Venture Capital and SoftTech VC, with participation from Techstars Ventures, RRE Ventures, Zelkova Ventures, V1.VC and investor Walter Winshall … | Continue reading
Stripe, a San Francisco, Calif.-based mobile payments startup that allows merchants to accept bitcoin, has announced that its Stripe Atlas service will be available to businesses in Cuba in conjunction with President Obama’s trip to Havana this week. Stripe users, including Atlas … | Continue reading
eGym, the Munich-based startup that offers cloud-connected gym equipment and supporting cloud software and app for the fitness training floor, has closed $45 million in Series C funding. The round was led by new investor HPE Growth Capital, while existing investors, including Hig … | Continue reading
Indie adventure game Firewatch has ignited 500,000 sales since its launch one month ago.A sun-drenched tale of survival and its human cost, Firewatch is the first game from San Francisco-based startup Campo Santo and the first to be published by software company Panic. The publis … | Continue reading
London-based Bitcoin Blockchain surveillance and forensic compliance intelligence startup Elliptic has secured $5 million in a Series A funding round led by Paladin Capital Group. The round also gained support from Santander InnoVentures, KRW Schindler, Digital Currency Group and … | Continue reading
US-based artist, Brent Watanabe, specializes in computer-based installations and his latest project is something quite addictive: an AI-driven deer wandering around Grand Theft Auto. The project, which is being livestreamed, sees a deer programmed to wander around Grand Theft Aut … | Continue reading
We had GamesMaster in the nineties. Thumb Bandits in the noughties. Now, in the twenty-tens, we've got Go 8 Bit.Comedian, TV presenter and Metal Gear Solid lover Dara O Briain hosts Go 8 Bit, a new six-part series for Dave based on the live Edinburgh show of the same name.Not hea … | Continue reading
Singapore-based Grab has just scored a new ally in its battle against Uber and other on-demand ride apps. The company, which claims to be Southeast Asia’s leading ride-hailing app, announced a strategic partnership with Lippo Group, one of Indonesia’s largest conglomerates. Read … | Continue reading
Earlier this week Instagram updated its news feed algorithm. Posts will no longer appear in chronological order and instead be sorted “based on the likelihood you’ll be interested in the content, your relationship with the person posting, and the timeliness of the post.”What this … | Continue reading
White Walls is a residential tower designed by Paris-based Ateliers Jean Nouvel in Nicosia, Cyprus. The iconic tower designed by Jean Nouvel | Continue reading
Elliptic, a bitcoin surveillance startup based in the United Kingdom, has raised US$5 million from prominent venture capital firms and angel investors to identify illicit activity on the Bitcoin blockchain and provide actionable intelligence to financial institutions and law enfo … | Continue reading
Ancient Party Barn is an old farm barn rehabilitated by the London-based Liddicoat & Goldhill. Stephen Lawrence National Architecture Award | Continue reading
Tokyo-based internet company Cocon, previously known as Panda Graphics, announced this week the acquisition of Ierae Security, a Japanese internet security diagnosis startup. Although the company has not yet disclosed the transaction value, Ierae Security became a wholly-owned Co … | Continue reading
Is this a survey or a census? A survey is statistically based, extracting insight from a few and being able to assert its truth across a wider population. A census involves asking everyone, and usually, matching up the answers with... | Continue reading
My PR firm is based in the San Francisco Bay Area. As I’m in the central hub of the tech industry, I’ve been fortunate to work with many early-stage, fast-growing Silicon Valley tech startups. The tech industry is one of America’s most respected and celebrated business, yet tech … | Continue reading
Fighters of Fate is the first game from Pincer Games and it's an ambitious attempt at a highly customized turn based PvP card combat game. A lot of attention has been paid to the player customization with a bazillion possible combinations. Not unexpected from the developers, two … | Continue reading
Ticket to Earth from Robot Circus is an upcoming turn based RPG with an interesting twist of a new mash-up game mechanic. While it's still early in the development for Ticket to Earth, with the game is expected to launch late in the year, the early game play is there and it looks … | Continue reading
If you were excited by the prospect of a new, smaller iPhone SE — a new video showing off a 3D printed model and leaked case may get you all worked up. The well known Sonny Dickson, who has some friends down Apple’s supply chain, sent a case over to TechSmartt. From there, the cr … | Continue reading
About 24 hours ago, Uphold sent out a mailer to all its users announcing the introduction of two new cryptocurrencies on its platform. The cloud-based financial services company will now support Litecoin and Ethereum. The company aiming at creating the ‘Internet of Money’ as it c … | Continue reading
William Mougayar is a Toronto-based entrepreneur, investor and independent scholar. He is the General Partner at Virtual Capital Ventures. Here, he discusses the consumer, business and ethical challenges facing blockchain entrepreneurs seeking to innovate with identity applicatio … | Continue reading
For years, industry watchers speculated that Nintendo could rule mobile if it would only make games for smartphones and tablets. And based on how well Miitomo has done in its first week in Japan, we know have proof that the storied Japanese gaming company is primed to succeed on … | Continue reading
A startup in Spain has come up with a new way to grow trees from the ashes of the deceased — and to stay "connected" with them at all times. That's the idea behind the Bios Incube, the latest creation from Barcelona-based startup Bios Urn. The product, which launched on Kickstart … | Continue reading
Atomico, a 10-year-old, London-based venture firm that invests across sectors and stages in startups that are largely located in Europe’s fastest growing tech hubs — particularly London, Stockholm, Helsinki and Berlin — is raising a $750 million fund, shows an SEC filing. The fir … | Continue reading
Last month, an India-based mobile manufacturing company named Ringing Bells announced a series of ultra-low budget, domestically-produced mobile handsets. These new phones included India’s cheapest 4G smartphone at ₹2999 ($44.60) and a 3G model dubbed Freedom 251 priced at a jaw- … | Continue reading
Instagram’s new plan to move from a chronological to an algorithm-based feed will increase competition for social media marketers on the network. Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, says the change will improve users’ experience. As the photo-centric social media network has g … | Continue reading
Julian Gollop, the creator of the original XCOM, has announced a new game.In a brief tweet Gollop described Phoenix Point as "our new game - turn based tactical combat - world based strategy". It sounds a lot like XCOM to me!That's all we have to go on for now. A Phoenix Point we … | Continue reading
Tired of leaving your apartment only to find it starts raining minutes later? Or are you always buying umbrellas and leaving them under tables in bars? There's a new umbrella that could solve both of those problems. Oombrella, a smart brolly from Paris-based Wezzoo, launched a ca … | Continue reading
Located in Lisbon, Portugal, Chiado apartment was completed in November 2015 by Fala Studio, a naïve architecture practice based in Porto. | Continue reading
When you think about it, Pokemon is just a series of fighting games without the violence. At their core, these games are about two creatures, each with an array of special moves, hitting each other until one of them runs out of health. Pokemon makes this process somewhat abstract … | Continue reading
IBM has made an acquisition to help it grow its business in cloud services for government and other public sector organizations — one of the areas that IBM hopes will offset declines in its legacy business. The company has acquired Optevia, a UK-based consultancy that specialises … | Continue reading