Sony on Tuesday announced a hotly-anticipated streaming game service along with the news that it sold more than 4.2 million PlayStation 4 consoles by the start of this year. PlayStation Now, set to begin a test phase this month and launch ...
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The next version of Microsoft's relational database management system (RDMS) promises to bring immense performance gains to online transactional processing systems. SQL Server 2014 will come with a new in-memory OLTP engine, one built ...
"Words in a Pic" is the latest release from Swedish social and mobile gaming company, WeAreQiiwi Interactive. The goal of the game is to find the words that match a picture. Each picture has three words associated with it. The player gets ...
Yahoo has acquired PlayerScale, a startup developer of infrastructure software for cross-platform gaming, adding to its string of recent acquisitions. The Internet giant said in a Twitter message Thursday that it would continue to support ...
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Yahoo has acquired a mobile gaming company, Loki Studios, taking its total acquisitions this month to four. The company said over the weekend it welcomed Loki, Astrid, GoPollGo and MileWise to its growing mobile team. "We recently added ...
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Cheeky Bingo, the sassy online social bingo game based on the immensely popular online bingo brand in the U.K., today launched on Facebook in the U.S. The game is co-produced by Win, the new social gaming company backed by the world's ...
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Newly formed social gaming developer Win today launched Slots Craze, the company's first major game released worldwide for Facebook and iOS. Win is backed by the world's largest publicly traded online gaming company bwin.party digital ...
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Sony has unveiled a new-generation PlayStation 4 system but the star of the party - the console itself - was not displayed during a long two-hour presentation. At a press event in New York, Sony talked gaming, live streaming, networking, ...
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IDG News Service - Former Atari Interactive CEO Frederic Chesnais has decided to take a 25.23% stake in the company in a bid to save it from bankruptcy, Atari announced Tuesday. He will pay principle shareholder BlueBay just 400 euros for ...
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The Electronic Sports League will help produce and host Riot Games' European LCS in the ESL Arena in Cologne. One of the world's leading eSports platform, ESL, and Riot Games, developer of League of Legends (over 32,000,000 monthly active ...
Head of licensing Darran Garnham (left) and senior consumer products manager Sam Ferguson (right) reveal how they're growing the Moshi Monsters brand even further with Poppet. Why licence out the Poppet Moshi Monster in particular and ...
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Social gaming firm, Zynga has cut 11 games in its planned shutdown of 13 game titles. The latest game to get the axe is PetVille, which shutdown on Sunday Dec 30, 2012. Petville had an average of 1 million monthly active users. Other ...
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Researchers have found a serious vulnerability in the game "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3," and another in the CryEngine 3 graphics platform on which many games run. Luigi Auriemma and Donato Ferrante of security consultancy ReVuln ...
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IT professionals and teachers have expressed concerns over the government’s decision to remove ICT from the school curriculum for two years while a new computer science curriculum is devised. During the Reviewing the ICT Curriculum ...
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Virgin Games, a leading online gaming company, has launched Virgin iPad Casino, the industry's first stand-alone casino web app designed exclusively for iPad and tablets. The launch of this app means that Virgin Casino's players now have ...