Preview
Riff is Rock Band for VR without the plastic guitars and drums
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Beyond Ethereum: The battle to own blockchain’s ‘layer two’
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While everyone was focused on GDPR, the NIS Directive snuck in through the back door
Fallout 4 director Todd Howard: Giving fans what they want without spreading too thin
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Epic’s epic monetization has it winning the battle of battle royales
The Wizard casts a spinoff spell for mobile VR: Trials of Meliora
Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview with Edge, Fluent, display, and Registry Editor improvements
Latin America’s new video game federation has devs from 11 countries working together
Pokémon Go turns 2 at the top of the mobile gaming charts
Project PAI Launches Mainnet for World’s First Blockchain-Based Network for Personal AI
Greenhouse Group sees AR glasses as freeing workers from office desks
Twitter has locked out users suspected of signing up as preteens for over a month
AI Weekly: If Duplex is the future, then Google Assistant, Alexa, and Cortana should start working together
Opinion
ProBeat: HTC should kill its phones and focus on VR
Analysis
Even in the 5G era, Wi-Fi will matter — but it needs to get faster
Pokémon Quest reaches 7.5 million downloads after launching on Android and iOS
Feature
Byton’s car of the future will be a ‘next-gen smart device’
The DeanBeat: Why outsiders see us better than we can see ourselves
Intel says 5G plans for iPhone are unchanged
Sonos files for IPO, highlighting profitability but also risks it faces with Apple, Google, Amazon
HTC’s June sales fall 68%, its biggest drop in over 2 years
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Octopath Traveler hands-on — the march of endless beginnings
Angie Smets: How Guerrilla Games made Horizon Zero Dawn in 7 years
Lyft reportedly in talks to buy Spain’s Cabify for $3 billion (Updated)
Samsung profits slow due to weak smartphone sales
Heartland Tech Weekly: Even after startup successes, scaleup capital is a scarce commodity
Cat Nigiri found the solution for its Keen puzzler in Asia, not the U.S.
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VR arcades are playing a leading role in the consumer market
Opinion
No, Nintendo Switch isn’t getting a VR headset
Conan Exiles is Funcom’s biggest hit after selling 1.4 million copies
Apple releases Siri Shortcuts beta for iOS 12 developers
Dead Cells hacks its way out of Early Access and launches August 17
ICO Watchdog Partners With trade.io to Bring Quality ICOs to the Crypto Exchange
MIT’s PixelPlayer can isolate the sounds of instruments using AI
RPG Maker MV is coming to the Switch, PS4, and Xbox One
The IndieBeat: Glitch Mundo carves out a grassroots festival for indie games in Brazil
Steam lists its top PC games at 2018’s midpoint
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