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PS4 Remote Play will fully support Android this week

October 7, 2019
Sony has announced version 7.00 of the PlayStation 4’s system software, which centers around updates to Remote Play and party functionality. The update will be available this week. Remote Play will now let you stream games from your console to any Android device running version 5.0 or above. This has actually been a feature on certain Android phones since 2014, but only ones made by Sony —…
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AI in messaging: Hard to solve, but full of promise

October 6, 2019
There is a huge whitespace waiting to be filled by the tech companies that recognize the power and potential of messaging. Roughly 63% of people prefer to share information on “dark social,” or closed, private messaging environments like Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp.
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Artificial stupidity: ‘Move slow and fix things’ could be the mantra AI needs

October 6, 2019
“Let’s not use society as a test-bed for technologies that we’re not sure yet how they’re going to change society,” warned Carly Kind, director at the Ada Lovelace Institute, an artificial intelligence (AI) research body based in the U.K. “Let’s try to think through some of these issues — move slower and fix things, rather than move fast and break things.” Kind was speaking as…
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Empire of Sin: Brenda Romero spent decades noodling on this mob strategy-RPG

October 5, 2019
With Brenda Romero‘s Empire of Sin game about the Chicago mob, the place came first. From the days when she was a curious child and her mother wouldn’t tell her about it, Romero devoured all the information you could about Al Capone’s empire in the 1920s. Then she put it on the shelf. She made 47 other games over the course of nearly 40 years, including Jagged Alliance and Gunman Taco…
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Xbox dominates gaming industry TV spend for September

October 5, 2019
The gaming industry came roaring back to life in September with an estimated TV ad spend of $39.3 million, a remarkable increase of 983% from August’s outlay. Xbox took the lead, accounting for over 63% of the industry total, with 2K Games and EA Sports in a distant…
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Respawn ‘loves the Quest’ even if Medal of Honor’s VR focus is the Rift

October 5, 2019
Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond is an Oculus Rift-exclusive VR shooter coming from Respawn Entertainment. It marks the first entry in the long-running World War II shooter series in over seven years. At a reveal event a couple of weeks ago I got the chance to go hands-on with Medal of Honor VR briefly and took some time to speak with game director Peter Hirschmann. You can read some other…
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