GamingNews

Paper Mario: The Origami King can’t dethrone The Last of Us: Part II when it comes to TV ads

July 26, 2020
From mid-June to mid-July, the gaming industry — largely propelled by PlayStation — had a modest 5.05% increase in TV ad impressions and a 0.83% increase in estimated spend compared to the previous 30-day period. Overall, 13 brands spent an estimated $15.4 million airing 32 spots over 4,900 times, generating 779.5 million TV ad impressions from June 16 through July 15. GamesBeat has partnered…
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MobileNews

Galaxy Watch 3 app reveals new gestures for calls, taking photos

July 25, 2020
We’re just a few weeks away from the August 5th Galaxy Unpacked event and details have been steadily leaking out about Samsung’s latest lineup of five devices. Today, the Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 had its official app arrive in the Play Store, revealing new features including gestures to manage calls and take photos. This afternoon, XDA’s Max Weinbach took a deep dive into the Galaxy Watch 3…
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GamingNews

EA Mobile reels in Jeff Karp from Big Fish Games

July 24, 2020
Jeff Karp, the president of mobile game maker Big Fish Games, has resigned from that post to become the head of Electronic Arts’ mobile game division, GamesBeat has learned. Yes, I have to make the joke. EA has gone fishing, and it has landed a Karp from Big Fish. EA did not make Karp available for an interview, but it did confirm the changes are happening. Karp will be senior vice president and…
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GamingNews

Xbox Games Showcase: Microsoft comes out in force

July 24, 2020
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. The company didn’t disclose the launch date or price of the new hardware, as it focused on just games today. Microsoft…
AI & RoboticsNews

Facebook details the AI simulation tool it built to find bugs and vulnerabilities

July 23, 2020
Facebook today detailed Web-Enabled Simulation (WAS), an approach to building large-scale simulations of complex social networks. As previously reported, WES leverages AI techniques to train bots to simulate people’s behaviors on social media, which Facebook says it hopes to use to uncover bugs and vulnerabilities. In person and online, people act and interact with one another in ways that can…
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