June 2, 2025 10:02 AM NC America CEO Jeonghee “JJ” Jin and Niko Partners CEO Lisa Cosmas Hanson at GamesBeat Summit. Image Credit: GamesBeat Jeonghee “JJ” Jin has spent her career helping Asian studios expand in the west. She became the CEO of NC America less than a year ago, and most recently added a …
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June 2, 2025 8:03 AM My Talking Tom Friends 2 characters all have their own homes now. Image Credit: Outfit7 It’s been a long wait, but Outfit7 has revealed My Talking Tom Friends 2, a new mobile game that will bring the Talking Tom & Friends crew back in a new mobile game. Outfit7 is launching the single-player game this July …
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June 2, 2025 7:00 AM Image Credit: Wizards of the Coast Wizards of the Coast (WotC) announced today that it has reached a publishing agreement with development studio Giant Skull. It will publish the studio’s title currently in development, a single-player action-adventure game with an immersive story set in the Dungeons & Dragons universe. While …
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June 2, 2025 6:00 AM Aethir’s gaming and AI infrastructure is helping to lift user acquisition. Image Credit: Aethir Aethir provides better computing efficiency with its Instant Play streaming solution for Doctor Who: Worlds Apart, resulting in better user-acquisition efficiency and revenue. ‘In a case study by the game’s partner SuperScale, Aethir said its decentralized …
Image: Mark Hachman / IDG Microsoft Edge Game Assist has worked its way through Microsoft’s development cycle, and has been released for everybody. It’s your new tool for solving those pesky puzzles in your favorite PC games. Even though we associate “Microsoft” with “Windows,” Microsoft has numerous little platforms that it bolts features on to. …
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Image: Mark Hachman / IDG Microsoft Edge Game Assist has worked its way through Microsoft’s development cycle, and has been released for everybody. It’s your new tool for solving those pesky puzzles in your favorite PC games. Even though we associate “Microsoft” with “Windows,” Microsoft has numerous little platforms that it bolts features on to. …
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Image Credits:NurPhoto / Contributor / Getty Images 2:01 PM PDT · May 31, 2025 It’s no surprise that many big, left-leaning social media accounts have recently joined Bluesky — but a new analysis from the Pew Research Center attempts to quantify that shift. This comes as an update to Pew’s news influencer report released in …
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Image Credits:Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket / Getty Images 1:05 PM PDT · May 31, 2025 The NAACP is calling on local officials to halt operations at Colossus, the “supercomputer” facility operated by Elon Musk’s xAI in South Memphis. As reported in NBC News, leaders from the civil rights group sent a letter Thursday to the Shelby …
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In Brief Posted: 10:51 AM PDT · May 31, 2025 Image Credits:Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto / Getty Images An AI-powered system could soon take responsibility for evaluating the potential harms and privacy risks of up to 90% of updates made to Meta apps like Instagram and WhatsApp, according to internal documents reportedly viewed by NPR. NPR says …
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Welcome back to Week in Review! We’ve got a ton of stories for you this week, including a new AI-powered browser from Arc; not one but TWO hacks; Gemini email summaries; and much more. Have a great weekend! Look out, Google: AI-powered search engine Perplexity released Perplexity Labs, which gives Pro subscribers a tool that …
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