For years, independent game companies – and some of the bigger players – have used game engines to help bring their ideas to life. Unreal Engine (UE) and CryEngine have been used by the likes of Tom Clancy’s franchise and Crysis respectively. However, there is only one engine tha … | Continue reading
Regardless of where one looks in the world, financial turmoil is brewing everywhere around us. Canada is no exception to this statement, unfortunately, even though the new Liberal government is planning to invest in people and the economy over the next few years. That being said, … | Continue reading
27 years on Wall Street to Bitcoin. An increasingly common evolution for former Wall Street executives. Blythe Masters was one of the most publicized to leave Wall Street to explore digital currency and blockchain technology. If her history at JP Morgan is any sign, she might be … | Continue reading
As predicted two years ago, it has only taken 24 months for AMOLED production costs to fall below that of LCD, meaning AMOLED will likely become the default choice for smartphone displays. | Continue reading
On this day – 24th March 2016 – I have come to the conclusion that I am a shitty writer. Fiverr, Freelancer, Upwork. They’ve been my bread and butter for years. I manage to make enough money to sustainably live in Istanbul, the city I love. Writing wasn’t enough to live comfortab … | Continue reading
Mark Josphephson is the CEO of Bitly. Catch his talk at TNW Europe in Amsterdam this May alongside 130 other top-flight speakers. The year was 2011. Bitly was at a crossroads. Over the previous three years, we had developed the internet’s definitive link shortening tool, shorte … | Continue reading
This post is not meant to dis Millennials. In truth, I’ve had my fill of Millennial-bashing comments and commentaries in recent years, often promulgated by the not-so-silent ranks of disdainful Boomers and disgruntled Gen Xers, much of it undeserved. The largest demographic group … | Continue reading
Queen Elizabeth's confidant Thomas Wilson warned writers away from fancy words 450 years ago in his Art of Rhetoric . Wilson paid no cou... | Continue reading
50-year-old Chinese national Su Bin faces five years in prison and a $250,000 fine for his involvement in a plot to steal information pertaining to fighter jets intended for use by US military forces. Bin, a businessman involved in the aviation and aerospace sector, worked with t … | Continue reading
Retail spending during Easter this year is expected to be higher than years prior, according to research from the National Retail Federation (NRF) and Proper Insights & Analytics. The last time spending was almost this high was in 2013. | Continue reading
The mobile gaming population in China shot up a few years ago, and growth rates have now fallen, according to 2015 research. The substantial population of primarily smartphone-based gamers may be getting more active. | Continue reading
The 2016 New York International Auto Show was less intense than previous years. With no jaw dropping reveals, it felt as if Mazda captured a bulk of the spotlight with the debut of it's beautiful little Miata MX-5RF sports carThere is more than enough eye candy to keep the show i … | Continue reading
BMW was among the first auto manufacturers to introduce integration with iPhones in 2011. Now, five years later, the company has at last announced at the New York International Auto Show that BMW Apps will integrate with Android devices. The first three apps to work with the iDri … | Continue reading
The Moon hasn't always been spinning at the same angle as it does today, a new study suggests. The Moon's axis likely shifted sometime around three billion years ago, due to the work of ancient lunar volcanoes. These volcanoes heated up one side of the lunar surface, changing the … | Continue reading
The future of transportation is a tough thing to peg down. It could involve Hyperloops, or self-driving cars, or some strange mix of both. Two years ago, Nissan started up an experimental wing called "Future Lab" to address this shifting landscape. And the first project is the Ni … | Continue reading
Google is posting app reviews from low earth orbit on a Nexus 16 - just in time for April Fools' Day 30 years from now. Confused? Take a look at what our interstellar app reviewer can tell us about the future. | Continue reading
Bob Messerschmidt knows a little about health and wellness tech, having spent three years helping architect the Apple Watch platform after Apple quietly acquired his spectroscopy company, Rare Light, in 2010. (The terms were undisclosed.) Messerschmidt also knew when he left Appl … | Continue reading
The Syrian war has been raging for over 5 years now, and Lebanon — with which it shares a long border — has born the brunt of over a million Syrian refugees flooding into the country.Tomorrow TechCrunch will bring together experts from UNICEF, and local NGOs, to discuss how techn … | Continue reading
This week, Twitter celebrated more than a decade of existence. Not many consumer-based social media startups can claim that title, but ten years on the company has amassed more than 350 million active users and sees one billion 140-character thoughts tossed into the abyss every f … | Continue reading
After years in development, card-battling strategy game Chronicle: Runescape Legends is now in open beta.Anyone with a PC can now try Chronicle, or download it from rschronicle.com.Chronicle is less about battling characters or gaining control of the game board, and more infused … | Continue reading
Blendle is looking to help online publishers monetize through charging for individual articles, and today the Dutch startup is opening for business in the U.S. Founded out of Utrecht in 2014, Blendle has generated a fair bit of buzz over the past couple of years with the promise … | Continue reading
In 1953, Joseph Heller was employed as a copywriter at Merrill Anderson when he imagined a novel that, eight years later, would appear a... | Continue reading
In events, we always have to think one step ahead. So what can we expect from the event industry in the next 20 years? Whether the current buzzword is ‘engagement’ or ‘event tech’ we #EventProfs are forever on the hunt for new ways to make future events greater, more influential, … | Continue reading
In March 2014 Royal Voluntary Service embarked on an exciting adventure, Voices of Volunteering: 75 Years of Citizenship
The shift of ecommerce sales from the desktop to mobile devices has been under way in China for a couple of years. And according to data from the end of 2015, the tilt toward mobile is clear. | Continue reading
If you were tired of navigating around the Chrome app launcher, it won’t be around much longer, according to Google. Today, the company announced it was getting rid of its wannabe OS-in-your-OS Chrome launcher, which launched three years ago and housed web apps that would launch … | Continue reading
Nearly two years ago now, Infinite Dreams released Sky Force 2014 [Free], a remake of their original Sky Force which released for Symbian and Pocket PC devices back in 2004. Sky Force 2014 was nearly identical to the original game except for being completely remade with stunning … | Continue reading
I have voraciously read endless pro and con scenarios about artificial intelligence since first writing about it years ago. There is no doubt that concerns about the dangers of runaway AI raised by Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates, Bill Joy and others are genuine. There als … | Continue reading
Blackberry-loving device clutchers are facing a tricky choice if they wish to continue to interact with their friends: WhatsApp, Facebook and Facebook Messenger hit the “unfriend” button on the struggling phone maker’s latest operating system. WhatsApp made a half-hearted debut o … | Continue reading
Utah-based Domo has been a force in the enterprise space for a few years with its data management platforms, but the team is poised for growth with an additional $130 million in capital from BlackRock, Credit Suisse and others at a $2 billion valuation. Domo will be using the cap … | Continue reading
Apple spent three years designing a robot that can take apart more than a million iPhones per year. | Continue reading
David Lee, a former Google executive who for several years ran the seed-stage venture fund SV Angel, is back with his own new firm, shows an SEC filing. The outfit is called Refactor Capital and it’s apparently targeting $50 million for its debut fund. Refactor, which was incorpo … | Continue reading
When the Internet of Things (IoT) became a trending topic a few years ago, thought leaders inside and outside of tech knew that it would be a transformational concept. But as part of the larger tech discussion it took a backseat to more exciting advancements like electric vehicle … | Continue reading
The new model of BMW's flagship 7 Series sedan is getting support for controlling the Spotify, iHeartRadio, and Pandora apps on Android phones, making it possible to use the services through the car's user interface — no fiddling with the phone required. BMW has supported similar … | Continue reading
Spotify is finally kicking back into expansion mode in Asia. Nearly two years after its last country launch in the region and close to four years after it first stepped into Asia, the music streaming service has confirmed plans to go live in Indonesia at the end of March. Read Mo … | Continue reading
On the 20th anniversary of a game like Resident Evil there are going to be a hundred articles about Jill sandwiches, bad acting, and all those other encrusted details that accumulate over time. Gaming is a technology-led medium and so, as time passes, such easy trivialities come … | Continue reading
The original 9th Dawn [$2.99] was released almost three years ago. It didn't look like much, but as long as you could get past the humble presentation, you would have found an open world action-RPG with a scale few other iOS games can match. It had a clunky user interface and for … | Continue reading
Google has announced that it’s changing the name of its Chromecast app to Google Cast on Android and iOS this week. The name-change, while a minor move on the surface, signals a broader shift in the direction Google is taking its Cast technology. With more than 20 million units s … | Continue reading
ANALYSIS: A lot has happened in the ten years since Twitter was founded — Apple’s App Store and Google Play have come to fruition, the app economy is a billion-dollar industry, and mobile phones have become the new computers. This shift in the way people communicate and interact … | Continue reading
Sure, phone cameras have made some incredible leaps in recent years, but all the Instagram filters in the world don’t hold a candle to the depth and beauty you can capture through the lens of a powerful DSLR camera. For a limited time on TNW Deals, you can get in on a chance to w … | Continue reading
One of the most powerful regulators in European tech in the last decade has found a landing place outside of the halls of Brussels. Today, CRM giant Salesforce announced that Neelie Kroes is joining its board of directors. She is the second high-profile ex-government figure to jo … | Continue reading
The Resident Evil series turns 20 years old today. Capcom's survival horror franchise began with the Japanese launch of Resident Evil for PlayStation on 22n… | Continue reading
After months of delay, the BBC has launched its Micro Bit programmable computer, beginning with about a million of them being delivered for free to every child in year 7 (around 12 years old) across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Once they receive their own Micro … | Continue reading
You can now buy the PlayStation 2 versions of Manhunt and Bully on PlayStation 4.The two Rockstar titles cost £11.99 apiece and weigh in at 2GB.Don't expect any shiny new visuals or extras for either - these are the same games you remember, years after each of their PS2 debuts sp … | Continue reading
Although the cultural TV juggernaut that is Mad Men has wrapped up, it's easy to see the mark it's left on its viewing audience. Let's have a look most useful marketing principles that Mad Men has highlighted over the years. | Continue reading
Ad spending during the NCAA Men's Division 1 Basketball Championship continues to climb, though fewer advertisers are participating than did a few years ago. One reason could be the price. | Continue reading
VIDEO: Sager makes return to sidelines in March 2015 Craig Sager’s battle with leukemia has entered new territory. The TNT announcer told Bernard Goldberg of HBO’s “Real Sports” that doctors told him in February he was no longer in remission from the acute myeloid leukemia he has … | Continue reading
My favorite Kemco RPG developer, EXE-Create, has found their groove over the last couple of years. Their games typically have enjoyable characters, solid mechanics, and genuinely good localizations. They've also pushed the technical side of things more than Kemco's other teams, i … | Continue reading