South Korean mobile titan Netmarble has spent $190 million to acquire a 25.71 percent stake in Big Hit Entertainment, the music label behind the popular South Korean pop group BTS. The investment...

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Comcast said peak internet traffic in the U.S. rose 32% in 2020 over pre-pandemic levels, with some markets rising 50% in March 2020.

GameStop has teamed up with Immutable X to launch a marketplace for nonfungible tokens (NFTs) later this year.

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Comcast has been funding digital equity causes in the past year, including $3.5 million in grants to help close the digital divide.

Riot Games has launched multiple efforts like its Valorant Game Changers Series to make sure women succeed in esports.

BTS World, a new mobile game coming from Netmarble, has now opened for pre-registration. K-pop is going even more global, via games.

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It's a strong start for the free tool, and shows a robust appetite among some artists to protect their work from being used to train AI.

Former BioWare executive producer Mark Darrah has returned to work on Dragon Age: Dreadwolf as a consultant.

Mortal Kombat 11 is coming out April 23 for PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4. And NetherRealm revealed it includes Baraka and Ronda Rousey.

Mortal Kombat 11 just launched on April 23, but its publisher is already saying that it's one of the most successful games in the 27-year-old franchise.

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Thanks to an engineer's inspiration, Comcast has figured out how to monitor breaks in its fiber optic cables throughout its network.

Mobalytics has teamed up with two esports stars to help promote its gaming companion app for League of Legends.

Cable and media conglomerate Comcast is launching its Comcast Grows to Code program to create a career path for employees to learn coding.

Measurement firm Spiketrap scoured the internet and found that Cypberpunk 2077 was the overwhelming favorite among fans during E3.

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We spoke with U.S. presidential hopeful Andrew Yang about how the government's AI policies compare with those of other countries.

Skate 4 is finally real. Electronic Arts revealed the return of its revered skating franchise during the EA Play 2020 live event today.

A new startup called Metaverse Team is launching the first-person shooter game Nerf Strike on Roblox today. 

Comcast said investments in artificial intelligence software and network capacity have helped it deal with ongoing demand from the pandemic.

Xbox Series X is exactly the console Microsoft needed to build. And I'm taking it as a sign that Microsoft believes in Xbox's future.

In a surprise Instagram Reel today, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company is bringing its FAIR and GenAI research teams closer together with the goal of building open sourced AGI.

For its 20th season, American Idol is changing things up by launching contestant-based digital trading cards as non-fungible tokens (NFTs).

DoNotPay has launched a new Chrome extension that lets anyone share their online subscriptions without divulging passwords.

Anyword, a company developing an AI-powered platform that generates marketing copy, has raised $21 million in venture capital.

The Sandbox has raised $93 million in a funding round led by SoftBank to help grow its virtual world based on nonfungible tokens.

Sarah Bond of Microsoft, has won our GamesBeat Summit 2022 Visionary Award, and Dinga Bakaba of Arkane won the Up and Comer Award.

Roblox has launched a game to help raise awareness about Type 1 diabetes in partnership with nonprofit JDRF.

Roblox game developer Gamefam has teamed up with Sega to bring Sonic the Hedgehog to the Roblox platform for the first time.

That Capcom Countdown timer has finally ended, and with that comes the anticipated reveal for Street Fighter 6.

SnackClub has raised $9 million for blockchain gaming. It is creating a decentralized autonomous organization for gamers.

Roblox is in hyper-growth mode, doubling its employees since last year. So it's no surprise its internship program is growing too.

Jedi: Fallen Order is ambitious, but like Luke running through Dagobah while carrying Yoda on his back, it never feels overburdened.

Riot Games is bringing augmented reality to its big League of Legends 2018 World Finals Opening Ceremony to entertain fans in a big stadium.

Sony is integrating Discord into PSN starting early next year. PlayStation is also investing into the communication platform.

Google says it's rolling out an on-device speech transcription algorithm in Gboard for American English, but only on Pixel smartphones.

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Dave Baszucki, CEO of Roblox, is about to take his company public. And he believes users will be the metaverse.

Ammon Runger grew up playing games on Roblox, and now at 16 he has succeeded in marketing them and now wants to make a big hit himself.

Current and former game developers at Moon Studios, the maker of the popular Ori games, said it is an oppressive place to work.

Xbox Game Pass is seeing a surge in subscribers as people around the world long for ways to connect. And Game Pass makes that easy.

Journeys, a popular shoe brand, has announced a new partnership with Karl Jacobs and his company Night Media.

Last week, Shrapnel released the cinematic trailer for its first-person shooter multiplayer game, also named Shrapnel. Some people were skeptical that the real game would look that good. And so...

tendo revealed during its latest earnings report that Metroid Dread has sold 2.74 million copies on Switch as of December 31.

Polygon and Alexis Ohanian’s Seven Seven Six will invest $200 million in decentralized social media projects.

Microsoft showed off an amazing array of games at its Xbox Games Showcase today to prepare fans for the holiday launch of the Xbox Series X game console.

Nintendo announced Super Smash Bros. Ultimate's next fighter during The Game Awards today. It's Sephiroth from Final Fantasy VII.

Mike Morhaime, cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment, has launched a new game company called Dreamhaven, with two new game studios.

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Polygon has launched a new kind of dedicated blockchain network dubbed Supernet and said it will invest $100 million in projects that use it.

Gears 5 is one of the best entries yet in the the series that began 13 years ago. From Escape mode in co-op to the big boss fights, there's a lot to like.

Gears Tactics is the next big first-party Microsoft launch for Xbox Game Pass. Developer The Coalition made the game in part because of Game Pass.

Mass Effect: Legendary Edition is still in the works at Electronic Arts, but publisher Electronic Arts is pushing the reveal and release into early 2021.

The arrival of Hugging Chat Assistants shows how fast the open source community continues to catch up to closed rivals such as OpenAI.

Habbo is using NFT Layer 2 solution Immutable X going forward with its NFT launches, aiming to achieve carbon neutral status.

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Illumix said that Five Nights at Freddy’s AR: Special Delivery -- the next installment in the popular horror series -- will be the first free-to-play game in the franchise.

The Game Awards is returning on December 10 as an all-digital event with awards presentations, musical performances, and game premieres.

Mike Morhaime, cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment, will receive the 2019 Honor Award at the Gamelab Barcelona event in Spain.

One of the best Japanese role-playing games ever is coming to Xbox. Dragon Quest XI will be available on Microsoft's Xbox One.

The new Battletoads is a lot like the old Battletoads, but sitting down on a couch to play it with other people lead to some great moments.

In an exclusive interview after being fired by Google, Timnit Gebru talked about toxic work culture and building an equitable tech future.

On September 22, no one had ever searched Pornhub for "Bowsette." By September 26, that had changed drastically. The thirst is real.

Razer has unveiled its Razer Blade Studio Edition laptops for creators and "prosumers" featuring the latest Intel processors and Nvidia graphics.

Ubisoft announced it has partnered with the HBAR Foundation to support gaming on the Hedera decentralized network.

Developer Turtle Rock announced that Back 4 Blood, the spiritual successor to the Left 4 Dead series, is coming out on June 22.

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Google announced at its developer conference Google I/O 2023 new products and features that give customers access to new generative AI modalities and expanded ways to use and tune custom models.

Artist Frank Miller has teamed up with Concept Art House and Gala Games to create 30th anniversary Sin City art.

Twitter said it will label or remove misinformation aiming to undermine the U.S. election, including posts claiming victory before results are certified.

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Duolingo uses AI and machine learning in various features of the app: Stories, Smart Tips, podcasts, reports, and even notifications.

Roblox’s blocky game world has grown to more than 60 million monthly active players, and what’s amazing about that is the virtual world has been an English-only platform until now. Today, that...

The Xbox Series X auto-HDR works well, and it makes classic games look better than ever on the next-gen hardware from Microsoft.

Comcast said that its Xfinity 10G network upgrade will be available to 10 million homes and businesses by the end of February. For applications like gaming, virtual reality, and videoconferencing...

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Hi-Rez Studios announced today its free-to-play shooter Paladins is leaving Early Access for an official release on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on May 8. The team-based game launched to Early...

Sky Mavis reported its network has been hacked, with thieves taking 173,600 in Eth and $25.5 million, taking a total of $620 million.

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Geoff Keighley launches his own 'metaverse' for The Game Awards in Manticore's Core virtual world environment.

Microsoft launched the AI Business School today for business executives to implement an AI strategy and address the ways AI changes an organization.

Companies that want to attract users will need to enable them to carry their digital identity across the metaverse regardless of platform.