Beginning today, Synthesio, the leading global Social Media Intelligence and Social Listening Platform, will be showcasing its updated offerings and growth at the 2018 Social Media Week conference in New York. Synthesio’s industry-leading social data will be on display in multiple locations at the event, including three Synthesio Beam screens at the Connection Cafe. Synthesio Beam is a real-time social media command center that visualizes social KPIs in a multi-screen display suitable for sharing. Beam’s highly configurable interface leverages all of Synthesio’s data enrichment filters to surface KPIs vital to a brand. Beam provides a rolling display of every mention that is pulled into…
Author: Loknath Das
The game industry is big, but you probably knew that already. If you have ever sat through the credits of a modern triple-A game, you will know just how much work goes into these projects, just how many people are involved – pages and pages of seemingly endless names scroll by as each experience comes to a close. Publishers such as Ubisoft and EA even use multiple studios to work on different aspects of games, perhaps getting a racing game studio in to tweak vehicle handling in an open world game, or getting FPS experts to fine tune the shooting.…
Microsoft is being sued by Infernal Technologies and Terminal Reality for the “egregious and wilful” patent infringement of the Infernal Engine. GamesIndustry.biz reports that the company is being accused of infringement of two patents (Nos. 6,362,822 and 7,061,488) pertaining to graphical lighting and shadowing methods. Terminal Reality licensed the Infernal Engine to a number of studios, including Microsoft. The filing states that game engines used in a number of Microsoft’s games, including Gears of War 4, Halo 5, and Sea of Thieves demonstrate this, and that “Microsoft’s knowing infringement […] has been egregious and willful.” According to the filing, Terminal Reality began working with…
International rugby-deprived Christchurch will host the All Blacks this year, in a feelgood “game of three halves” against Canterbury and Otago. After New Zealand Rugby dished out the bad news late last year that rugby fans in Christchurch wouldn’t see the All Blacks in a test there until 2020, or until the city’s stadium woes were sorted, it was confirmed on Tuesday the All Blacks will play there in August. However, Crusaders chief executive Hamish Riach said that while the match was “potentially very mouth-watering”, it was not comparable to a test match.”They’re not equal substitutes are they? The test matches are international rugby games and pinnacle events in our sport.”…
This week’s Best Buy ad has lots of great deals on video games and gaming hardware. So before you drop all your money on full-priced games, be sure to take a look to see what you can save money on this week. Here are our picks for Best Buy’s best video game deals the week of April 22 – April 28. First up is a deal that offers $150 in savings if you’re in the market for a 4K TV and an Xbox One X. To get this deal, click here and select an Xbox One package of your choice. You can pick from…
It appears that the Xbox E3 2018 line up may have been leaked. If true, there are some obvious announcements regarding Forza Horizon 4 and Crackdown 3 as well as some big surprises in the way of Battlefield V, a new Splinter Cell game, Borderlands 3, Cyberpunk 2077, a Halo reboot, and what could be a new instalment in the long forgotten Perfect Dark series. Some of these appear likely of being true, such as new Forza and Crackdown games as their presence isn’t unexpected. Others like a Halo reboot should be taken with a massive grain of salt. The information regarding this comes via Hungarian website Gamepod…
With the Xbox One X out barely six months ago, it seems that Microsoft is staffing up for its true Xbox One successor. What’s more is, a job listing on the company’s website spotted by members of popular gaming forum ResetEra suggests that the next Xbox may use GDDR6 memory versus GDDR5 on the Xbox One X. Microsoft is looking for a senior engineer to head up its DRAM solutions for Xbox hardware specifically citing “GDDR6 and future DRAM technologies”. It’s an interesting turn of events considering that at one point of time, Microsoft wanted your Xbox One to be a gaming PC, implying the…
Bengaluru-based games company Mech Mocha revealed its third game, Jetpack Joyride India. It’s out right now on Android and iOS. Rather than being a fresh concept like Puppet Punch or based on an Indian IP like Chhota Bheem – Himalayan Adventure, it’s an Indian take on Jetpack Joyride in collaboration with its creator, Australian developer Halfbrick. The studio claims it’s exclusive to India and has given the game a complete makeover with 100 levels, cameos from popular Indian comedians, and a new art style depicting places like Rajasthan, Kerala, and Mumbai. As per the game’s store page on Google Play it has ads…
HIGHLIGHTS Cross-platform play allows gamers across PC and consoles to play together Most gamers are indifferent to it according to a recent survey This is despite an industry push towards cross-platform play Cross-platform play is a feature of a video game that allows gamers using different consoles or PC to play with each other simultaneously. What it means is, if you play Rocket League on the Xbox One, you can play against those on the Nintendo Switch and PC. For most part, Sony has excluded itself from cross-platform play with Xbox One, refusing Microsoft’s attempts to bridge the gap for titles like Minecraft, Fortnite,…
HIGHLIGHTS Shenmue 1 and 2 will be available on current generation platforms in 2018 They won’t be remasters or remakes However they will support modern control schemes Shenmue 1 and 2 will have a 2018 release date for the PS4, Xbox One, and PC. Sega announced that the two open-world classics will be seeing a re-release on current generation platforms at Sega FES 2018. Shenmue 1 was released for the Dreamcast in 1999 with a sequel in 2001 for Japan and Europe only. This was followed by a port of Shenmue on the original Xbox. The games had a level of detail on…