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South Korean gaming giant NCSoft expands into key Western PC and mobile markets

A female first: EA adds women’s national teams to FIFA 16 soccer game

Preview
Batman: Arkham Knight makes Gotham feel more like a city and less like a playground

Why EA added women’s soccer teams to the upcoming FIFA 16

Why we had to wait four years for Batman: Arkham Knight

Pixar’s Inside Out brings cooperative puzzle-platforming to Disney Infinity

Zynga launches FarmVille: Harvest Swap to reap match-3 profits

Gracenote expands its media metadata platform into sports with the $54M acquisition of 2 data firms

Shazam adds visual recognition to its music discovery app

Partner Content
How to win the talent war without outspending your competition
NeuWave Medical Inc. Closes $25 Million in New Financing

Lenovo demos new smart shoes with a screen that displays your mood

Google unveils Project Soli & Project Jacquard: A radar-powered wearable & touch-sensitive textiles

Trustpilot takes in $73.5M for its consumer review platform

Augmented-reality company Metaio has mysteriously stopped selling its services

Sony clarifies Vita ‘legacy platform’ statement: ‘Our portable business will be continued’

Analysis
Google may be set to leapfrog Apple in mobile payments with Android Pay

An electric-car future is coming, just more slowly than predicted

Guest
B2C messaging on WhatsApp: A mobile marketer’s dream

GoPro announces a $3,000 spherical camera rig for capturing VR video

Twitch won’t let users stream AO-rated games

VB Insight
Email marketing providers: Evolve or die

PlayStation Vita is a ‘legacy platform,’ according to Sony (update)

Gigaom resurrected: 6 media companies that came back from the dead

Oculus chief: You’ll be able to get the Rift, with a PC, for under $1,500

Microsoft starts cleaning up the Windows Store by removing apps that don’t comply with latest guidelines

Watch us play Splatoon and discuss its review

Pebble Time begins shipping to Kickstarter backers — everyone else can preorder it June 22

Jawbone sues Fitbit for stealing its talent and trade secrets (updated)

Athenahealth adds 3 startups to its accelerator program: Hale Health, Lifesquare, and PatientPop

Feature
How Not a Hero put you on the mayoral campaign of a … time-traveling alien bunny

Smart air quality monitor Awair connects with Nest, Misfit, IFTTT, and more

Chrome 43 for Android arrives with touch to search, faster Google Wallet checkout, and no more Android 4.0 support

Twitter open-sources Kit and Digits developer tools for Android

How Reddit’s fixed salary policy is diversifying its workforce

Analysis
CBS will probably be part of Apple TV’s ‘skinny bundle’

Flash storage provider Tegile Systems raises $70M
