It's hard to believe it's been a year since our last National Banana Cream Pie day, but, here we are. As far as huge iOS releases are concerned this week, it sort of seems like the entire proverbial App Store runway has been cleared for Supercell's Clash Royale [Free] to take off … | Continue reading
FEATURE: When I say Pokémon, most of you probably think of the games. But the franchise owes just as much of its success to its cartoon series. The Pokémon anime started in 1997, one year after the original game released in Japan. Those handheld classics celebrate their 20th anni … | Continue reading
Each week, we’ll ask our stable of scribes across the globe to weigh in on the most important NBA topics of the day — and then give you a chance to step on the scale, too, in the comments below. BLOGTABLE: Time to move back 3-point line? | More remarkable: Spurs’ run or Curry’s s … | Continue reading
Each week, we’ll ask our stable of scribes across the globe to weigh in on the most important NBA topics of the day — and then give you a chance to step on the scale, too, in the comments below. BLOGTABLE: Time to move back 3-point line? | More remarkable: Spurs’ run or Curry’s s … | Continue reading
Each week, we’ll ask our stable of scribes across the globe to weigh in on the most important NBA topics of the day — and then give you a chance to step on the scale, too, in the comments below. BLOGTABLE: Time to move back 3-point line? | More remarkable: Spurs’ run or Curry’s s … | Continue reading
You might remember that Forza Motorsport 6 was announced at a car show — NAIAS in Detroit last January — and now, Microsoft's Turn 10 Studios is doing it again: it just announced that there's a new Forza game in the works, and the hyper-limited Lamborghini Centenario, announced i … | Continue reading
Right now this industry is full of products that are cumbersome and ugly enough that you’d probably swipe left on Beyoncé wearing a pair, but this past week I had the chance to play with one that was, okay, still pretty unfashionable, but also really amazing. Meta CEO Meron Gribe … | Continue reading
With one of the biggest mobile trade shows in the world wrapping up last week, the one message that came from many big-name manufacturers is that 2016 is going to be a breakthrough year for VR – but is that really true? With Samsung, LG and HTC all bringing VR news to Mobile Worl … | Continue reading
Last week we launched The Venue of The Future, a free report about how event professionals select venues. Here are 7 trends affecting venue selection. When carrying out the research for The Venue of the Future we looked at the answers of over 1,000 event professionals from around … | Continue reading
It’s been a bit of an odd start to the week for the bitcoin price and our intraday strategy. Things seem very subdued, and we haven’t really had any major volatility – a couple of false breakouts aside – on which to get into the market. Sideways action between a pretty tight, fou … | Continue reading
Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition is coming to Xbox One and Steam on 11th March, developer Moon Studios has announced.That's exactly one year to the day of Ori's original release.This enhanced edition adds all sorts of goodies to the already acclaimed platformer. For s … | Continue reading
Microsoft held an Xbox spring showcase last week, showing a bunch of games to the press. Here’s a summary of what they announced, as well as links to the interviews we did during the event. We saw a hands-on preview of the first act and first full video episode of Quantum Break, … | Continue reading
Mech roguelike strategy game Ironcast is arriving this week on PS4 and Xbox One.The PS4 version is out today in North America and tomorrow in Europe, while the Xbox One edition will arrive on 4th March.Led by Tearaway senior designer Daniel Leaver at his new studio Dreadbit, Iron … | Continue reading
Of all the virtual reality games to leave me feeling disoriented, Minecraft was the one I least expected. The pixel-art game, which Microsoft announced today would be coming to the Oculus Rift headset when it starts shipping next month, was a surprisingly immersive VR experience … | Continue reading
Last week, toward the end of a StrictlyVC event in San Francisco, GGV Capital managing director Hans Tung took the stage to interview one of his portfolio CEOs, Peter Szulczewski of Wish. With an increasingly boisterous crowd as their background, Tung managed to ferret out lots o … | Continue reading
Alan Wake's Return, which popped up last week in domain name and trademark listings filed by developer Remedy, is real. Sort of.Hidden in Quantum Break is a live action trailer, viewable on an in-game TV set. But rather than a new game, it sounds like Alan Wake's Return is a live … | Continue reading
Tony Fadell, currently the CEO of Nest, has had a crucial role in the design of both the iPod and the iPhone, and boy has he got some stories to tell. In an interview at the SVForum in Palo Alto, California last week — fully transcribed by VentureBeat — Fadell shared a number of … | Continue reading
FEATURE: Pokémon is a multimedia giant, but it all started with one man. That would be Satoshi Tajiri, who created developer Game Freak and the initial idea that would become one of the biggest gaming franchises of all time, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this week. Sales … | Continue reading
A modern-tech marvel, the Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 9.7 is among best tablets on the market. The second generation of the wildly popular Galaxy Tab S lineup has received rave reviews, and this week we’re taking excitement to the next level by giving one away through TNW Deals. What m … | Continue reading
Xbox boss Phil Spencer has hinted that the Xbox One will receive hardware upgrades.Speaking last week at a Microsoft press event, Spencer likened the Xbox One's future to that of a PC, with upgrades to boost performance.It's a bold statement - and one which appears to end Microso … | Continue reading
Microsoft's Xbox chief Phil Spencer has hinted that the company will offer optional hardware upgrades for the Xbox One in the future. Speaking at an Xbox spring showcase event last week, Spencer revealed that Microsoft plans to make the Xbox One more like a PC. "We can effectivel … | Continue reading
The Power Rangers movie is inching closer to reality, more than a year after Lionsgate announced plans to reboot the popular 1990s franchise. Production on the Dean Israelite film began yesterday in Vancouver, the studio announced this week, and its cast is now fully fleshed out. … | Continue reading
A proposed change to the Unicode standard this week plans to introduce emoji customization, so that you’re able to change the hair color or gender of an emoji. UTS 52 is a change that would allow for major emoji customization for the first time — and it’s now going through the pr … | Continue reading
Unfortunately, it turns out that IBM isn't working on a full-on Sword Art Online MMO with Watson, SoftLayer, and virtual reality technology combining to render your own body in the game. News to that effect circulated last week, but as Road to VR points out, it was a misunderstan … | Continue reading
The Voxel Agents' long-planned resurrection of their Train Conductor franchise finally comes to frutition this week, as Train Conductor World releases on March 3rd. The game's been given a fresh coat of paint with three-dimensional visuals, but The Voxel Agents says they've also … | Continue reading
The Toronto Raptors' Kyle Lowry and the Golden State Warriors' Stephen Curry today were named NBA Eastern and Western Conference Players of the Week, respectively, for games played Monday, Feb. 22 through Sunday, Feb. 28. | Continue reading
The RSA security conference is being held this week in San Francisco where security pros come together to discuss strategy. IBM made several security announcements this morning ahead of the conference, headlined by the purchase of Resilient Systems. Instead of trying to prevent a … | Continue reading
McDonalds will join the virtual reality party this month with a limited run of Happy Googles, a VR display a la Google Cardboard. The goggles are created in part by deconstructing a Happy Meal box. According to Ad Week, McDonald's will launch the promotion in 14 restaurants in Sw … | Continue reading
All week long, we have been covering Social Media Week in New York City on our blog and across the Zignal Labs social channels. Here is a look at what is driving the conversation in The City so Nice, They Named it Twice. Total Mentions Since kicking off on Monday night at the ope … | Continue reading
The humble Happy Meal box will see perhaps its largest ever innovation go live this week – it can now be folded in seconds into a pair of VR ‘Happy Goggles.’ Don’t all rush at once, though, because they’re only available in a pretty limited pilot across seven McDonald’s stores in … | Continue reading
Whether it's pushing speed and performance boundaries or redefining expectations of luxury and technological advancement, the cars of the Geneva Motor Show are invariably leaders in their class. All the big companies prioritize this one week in March as a time to show off their v … | Continue reading
HTC’s $799 Vive virtual reality headset opened for pre-orders this morning. The headset will begin shipping April 5 in the US, just a week or so after the consumer launch of the the Oculus Rift, which launches March 28.Pre-orders can be placed on the HTC site today for shipment t … | Continue reading
Okay, Blizzard, we are all ready. Now, where's Standard Format? Everyone - including me- is patiently waiting for the new formats to hit, but at least this past week had enough Hearthstone [Free] news to keep us all busy reading (and maybe reading to forget that the meta continue … | Continue reading
Current and former Snapchat employees had their identities compromised last week after one of their colleagues fell for a phishing email. The attacker pretended to be CEO Evan Spiegel while asking for employees’ payroll information, according to a company blog post. The payroll s … | Continue reading
It's gone now, but Lamborghini briefly posted a video on YouTube this morning of its next ultra-limited-edition car, the Centenario — a 770-horsepower tribute to the 100th birthday of company founder Ferruccio Lamborghini that'll debut at the Geneva Motor Show this week. Power co … | Continue reading
Hello everyone, and welcome to the week! It's time once again for our look back at the noteworthy updates of the last seven days. It's a little lighter than usual this week, and I can only assume it was because developers took time off to observe Eli Hodapp's birthday. Still, we' … | Continue reading
In this morning’s bitcoin price watch article, we discussed the potential for some volatility throughout today’s session. Bitcoin had a pretty up and down week last week, and while the action was conducive to our intraday strategy, it made for uncertainty as we headed in to a fre … | Continue reading
Rescue authorities in Australia are using drones to identify sharks and provide assistance to swimmers threatened by them. The camera-equipped drones were launched this week as part of a trial program, and will patrol the coastline of the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) … | Continue reading
Why do Monday’s Suck? Could Mondays actually be the solution to having an amazing week? By approaching your week from a different angle, you can begin to train yourself to actually enjoy Mondays and make them your most productive day of the week. Here’s how… Do you hate Mondays? … | Continue reading
If when you woke up this morning the first thing to pop into your head was The Boomtown Rats hit ‘I don’t like Mondays‘ (or maybe Deathcab for Cutie’s ‘Monday Morning’ is more your speed) then I can only empathize with your distress, offer my apologies that the weekend has indeed … | Continue reading
Far Cry Primal has leapt to the top of the UK all-format charts in its debut week of release.Ubisoft's Stone Age adventure beat off competition from EA shooter Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2, which dug its heels into second place.But there's no word yet on how well either s … | Continue reading
Netflix said it was going to declare war on users that took advantage of VPN services and DNS hacks to gain access to the US library, and it wasn’t kidding: a number of common methods for obscuring your location have been blocked entirely in the last week. Users poured into a thr … | Continue reading
Last week was a pretty good week for our intraday, bitcoin price strategy. We managed to get in and out of some decent trades, and limited our downside to just a few, negligible chop outs. With any luck, we’re in for a similar week this time around. If action over the weekend is … | Continue reading
Mad Max's multiple Oscar wins drew deserved cheers from the Academy Award audience last night, but support for the movie also came from an unexpected source — democratic senator from Missouri, Claire McCaskill. McCaskill, who was diagnosed with breast cancer this week, tweeted a … | Continue reading
Hands-on with the Galaxy S7, LG G5 and much, much more -- here are the Android-related videos you don't want to miss this week! | Continue reading
HTC revealed last week that its Vive virtual reality headset would cost $799 in the US, but the company has kept mum until now on just how much it'll cost early adopters around the world. As of today, it's a mystery no more: the Vive will cost £689 in the UK and €899 across much … | Continue reading
Welcome back to Android Apps Weekly! This week we talk about the new Futurama and The Walking Dead games, Microsoft giving up on Project Astoria, and more! | Continue reading
We round up the hottest news of the week, and nine Android stories you shouldn't miss. | Continue reading