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Splatoon: Nintendo Seeks Bloodless Coup in Online Shooter Genre

With its bloodless battles of attrition between squads of human-squid chimeras, twitch-shooter Splatoon oozes classic Nintendo charm that has enamored many early reviewers. Soon, however, their summary judgment will be all but moot. The new Wii U game will be tried in the court of public opinion starting Friday, when it will be released to waiting fans...

Charter, TWC Merger Could Be Fine With Feds

Charter Communications on Tuesday announced a deal to acquire and merge with Time Warner Cable, and also reaffirmed its commitment to buy Bright House Networks ...

QuizUp Branches Out Into Social Territory

Popular trivia game QuizUp on Thursday issued an update that gives players access to a broader array of social networking tools ...

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Fove VR Headset Locks Onto Your Gaze

Fove is the first virtual reality headset to feature eye-tracking -- meaning, among other things, that characters you view on screen can look right back at you. So far, close to 500 people have pledged nearly US$200,000 to bring the Fove VR headset to fruition ...

NASA’s $2.25M Challenge: 3D-Print a Space Base

NASA and America Makes have challenged innovators in the additive construction market to design a habitat for deep space exploration for the first stage of the competition and to fabricate such facilities in the second phase ...

Google’s Driverless Cars to Leave the Nest

Google on Friday announced it will begin testing prototypes of its fully autonomous self-driving cars on public roads. The vehicles won't roam too far from their Mountain View, California, home -- but this latest phase of testing could be critical both for cultivating positive consumer perceptions, and influencing future legislation affecting the nascent sector...

Apple Likely to Pony Up to Settle A123 Poaching Suit

Apple has agreed to settle the lawsuit brought by battery manufacturer A123 Systems, accusing it of poaching engineers who were under non-compete agreements, the BBC reported Thursday ...

Bloodstained Makes Its Mark on Kickstarter

Castlevania producer Koji Igarashi's Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night has drawn more than three times its US$500,000 base goal in roughly two days on Kickstarter. While the concept and its art already have attracted more than $1.5 million in support from fans, there's still a winding road ahead before the game goes gold ...

Smartphone Makers Play Musical Chairs as China’s Mobile Market Matures

For the first time in six years, China's massive mobile market saw contraction in its smartphone sector, IDC reported Monday ...

Uber Wants to Get Off Google’s Maps

Ride-sharing company Uber has submitted a bid of up to US$3 billion to acquire Nokia's Here maps service, The New York Times reported Friday ...

Users Choose to Wear Blinders, Facebook Suggests

Facebook, in collaboration with the University of Michigan, conducted a study on the diversity of news and opinions posted by members of the network, in an effort to determine whether its manipulation of News Feed algorithms could be responsible for creating an echo chamber of viewpoints. Results were published Thursday in the journal Science ...

Splatoon: Nintendo Hits You With Its Best Shot

Nintendo has invited players to paint the town red -- and green and blue and a palette of other colors -- in Global Testfire events over the weekend for Splatoon, a new game launching May 29 exclusively on the Wii U ...

Oculus VR Promises a Rift for All in 2016

An exact date hasn't been set, but Facebook's Oculus VR on Wednesday announced that the highly anticipated consumer version of its virtual reality headset will launch in the first quarter of 2016. Preordering will begin later this year ...

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‘Night Terrors’ Could Turn Your Home Into a Hellscape

Gamers could get the chance to count themselves among the things that go bump in the night, if Novum Analytics' Night Terrors, an augmented reality game for mobile devices, meets its Indiegogo funding target. The project has raised US$26,681 of its $70,000 goal and has 34 days remaining to attract supporters ...

T-Mobile Offers Free 2-Week Vacation From Verizon

T-Mobile on Tuesday launched "Never Settle for Verizon," an aggressive response to Verizon's "Never Settle" ad campaign that gives Verizon customers an opportunity to test T-Mobile's network for themselves. T-Mobile promises to pick up any fees incurred by customers who participate in the free trial, whether they ultimately decide to switch to T-Mobile or not...

Facebook Responds to Critics by Unlocking Internet.org

Facebook on Monday announced that it will expand Internet.org to ensure that it doesn't conflict with the principles of a free and open Internet. CEO Mark Zuckerberg responded to criticisms of Internet.org and outlined plans to make the free service even more open ...

Our Bodies, Our Security: Biometrics vs. Passwords

Text-based usernames and password pairs should be replaced with biometric credentialing, such as vein recognition and ingestible security tokens, suggests Johnathan LeBlanc, PayPal's global head of developer evangelism, in his Kill All Passwords presentation ...

Twitter Takes It on the Chin

Twitter's stock took a hit when investors got an early look at first quarter earnings, leaked just ahead of closing time on Tuesday, ahead of the company's Wednesday announcement. ...

Shiny Apple Has a Few Soft Spots

Apple on Monday reported another quarter of stellar earnings, detailing its drive to 27 percent revenue growth on the backs of its iPhone, Mac and App Store sales ...

Treyarch: Black Ops III More Ambitious Than World at War

Activision on Monday announced the launch date for Call of Duty: Black Ops III -- Friday, Nov. 6. The company is departing from its tradition of Tuesday releases. Instead of conflicting with school and work schedules, the Friday release will give players the weekend to dive into the sci-fi shooter and get a feel for the new gameplay mechanics ...

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