Tonk Tonk Games has raised $2 million in funding from Bitkraft Esports Ventures to build its uFighter mobile game, where you play as one of the fighters.The company wants to provide players with a more personalized play experience and high spectatorship, which is why it will put a cartoon version of your face on your fighting character. The funding comes from Bitkraft Esports Ventures, with participation from Modern Times Group (MTG) — both of them active investors in the games and esports...
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Facebook’s latest VR headset, the Oculus Quest, is set to be quite different from the Oculus Rift. For starters, it’s an all-in-one device with no need for a PC. But Oculus is also approaching Quest with a stricter content curation policy than on Rift.It calls this a “quality-first approach” that has seen at least one developer have their VR game rejected from Quest’s submission process. Recent comments from VP of Content, Jason Rubin, shed light on this approach.In...
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The location-based entertainment (LBE) space when it comes to virtual reality (VR) is one of the most exciting and dynamic sections of the industry, with major players like The VOID and Zero Latency producing new experiences and pushing the boundaries of the technology. Today, a new player has entered the scene. Hailing from Toronto, Canada, Dark Slope is a specialist LBE VR developer that has now come out of stealth, revealing its first project, Scarygirl Mission Maybee. Founded in January 2018...
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Netflix is well aware that Disney, WarnerMedia, Comcast and others will eventually pull back their content for their own platforms. But new figures paint a dire portrait of the aftermath of that shift.Ampere Analysis’ research—spotted by Recode—suggests Netflix could lose 20% of its content when Comcast, Disney, Fox and WarnerMedia snatch back their shows and movies. The figures are based on the amount of hours of content available on the Netflix platform.While those four media...
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Google is apparently getting ready to launch its very own smart display: The company may soon unveil a new device dubbed the Google Home Hub that combines a voice-controlled smart speaker with a touch screen display, according to newly leaked product information.Pictures and specs published by Myspartprice.com Tuesday suggest that the device will have a 7-inch touch screen that sits mounted atop a fabric-covered speaker. The device will ship in two color variants, chalk and charcoal.Google has s...
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Certain Affinity will open a second development studio in Toronto and plans to shift its focus to “lead game development”, the company announced via news release Wednesday.Certain Affinity, based in Austin, is the studio perhaps best known for its work as co-developer of “Halo 4” and “Left 4 Dead,” as well as its development of multiplayer modes for several games in the “Call of Duty” franchise. In the company’s 12 years, it has developed or ...
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