Games/Interactive

 

49ers, SAP Debut First Real-Time Venue Management System for Levi’s Stadium (Forbes)

To create the system, using SAP Leonardo, SAP Cloud Platform, HANA Database and SAP Analytics Cloud for flexibility, SAP relied on the robust data warehouse from the 49ers. SAP sol... More

Evolution of a Channel: Gaming Retail (Twice)

Few consumer tech categories change quite as rapidly as video games. Every five to eight years, new gaming consoles hit store shelves; other ways to play emerge at an even faster p... More

Facebook Discontinues Movie Rentals, Purchases on Oculus Rift (Variety)

Facebook’s VR subsidiary Oculus is shutting down its VOD efforts on is Oculus Rift headset this week, and is reimbursing anyone who has bought titles in the past. Oculus told Rif... More

IBM Trials Blockchain App Store, Now Has 500 Blockchain Projects Worldwide (Block Telegraph)

IBM has partnered with nine financial institutions and CLS, a foreign exchange settlement provider, to trial a new platform for blockchain based apps called LedgerConnect. This new... More

Game On (Twice)

The gaming accessories market continue to heat up, with the category experiencing record growth this summer, according to The NPD Group. The market research firm said that total sp... More

Qtum Blockchain Becomes Amazon Web Services Partner in China (Coin Desk)

Amazon Web Services' China division is partnering with public blockchain project Qtum. The partnership sees the on-demand cloud computing giant working with a cryptocurrency projec... More

Otoy’s RNDR Harnesses 14,000 GPUs to Render Cloud-Based Graphics (VentureBeat)

Blockchain-based rendering platform RNDR has harnessed the graphics processing power of more than 14,000 graphics processing units (GPU) provided by individuals who contribute the ... More

The Next Generation of Streaming Video Games is on its Way (Engadget)

Earlier this month, Google launched the beta for Project Stream, a service that pledges to seamlessly run any video game on any laptop or PC. We've heard this promise before, but i... More

Digimarc Previews Signal Rich Art, Based on New Generation of Tools, Techniques to Design IoT-Ready Packaging (MESA)

At the Adobe MAX 2018 Creativity Conference taking place in Los Angeles, Digimarc features its newest tools and techniques for graphic artists, with particular emphasis on commerci... More

3 AI Trends Sales Can’t Ignore (Salesforce Blog)

Artificial intelligence has moved way past the buzz. Companies are adopting AI — and fast. The numbers don’t lie. According to a recent forecast, four out of five executives (8... More

The iPad is Getting Full Version of Photoshop Next Year (CNBC)

Adobe announced on Monday that it will release a full version of its Photoshop editing software for the Apple iPad next year. Photoshop is currently available for the iPad, but it ... More

Creative Types say AI Will Help, Not Hurt, Their Jobs (Forbes)

AI is not likely to replace the human creative spirit anytime soon. If anything, it could make us more creative. At least that's what people in the creative fields say, with the be... More

With Cred partnership, PwC Wants to Help Make Stablecoins Legit (TechCrunch)

Audit giant PwC is the latest mainstream firm to show new interest in digital currencies. This week it announced a partnership with decentralized lending platform Cred to advise on... More

AI: Four Key Ingredients (OpenText Blog)

The first ingredient is digital maturity and this is wholly dependent on having mature processes. If the process is mature, chances are good that the data will be good. Mature proc... More

eSports and Live Culture: A Major New Movement (Techonomy)

From esports to HQ Trivia to Peloton, “live” platforms and brands are becoming a cultural phenomenon. The role of spectators and participants are blurring, and this is changing... More

Movie Commentary Tracks are Back – and They’re a Trivia Goldmine (Wired)

The best commentary tracks don't bog you down with technical details or fill up dead air with dull plaudits: They footnote the movie experience, answering questions you may not hav... More

Report: eSports 2.0 Has Arrived (Twice)

The category, which The Diffusion Group described as “silently exploding, out of the mainstream eye for years,” is grabbing widespread industry attention in part because of its... More

Lego, IBM Team for AI-Powered Interactive Ad (Media Post)

While Lego is noted for its iconic Lego brick, the toy giant is now tapping into artificial intelligence to better guide shoppers for the coming holiday season. Driven by IBM’s n... More

Viacom Expands Content Efforts on Snap, YouTube, Twitter (Variety)

Viacom Digital Studios is stepping up its programming investments on social media with a new slate of content unveiled Wednesday at the NewFronts West event in Los Angeles. The yea... More

How AI is Helping Amazon Become a Trillion-Dollar Company (Fast Company)

At the scale that Amazon processes orders, peak efficiency is essential. Magnified over millions upon millions of orders a year, even a second or two saved per order makes a huge b... More

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