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31 July 2024

Care home provider uses Amazon voice recognition software to 'improve' lives of residents

A care home provider is using voice technology to improve the lives of residents and carers. Oakland Care - a chain based across Essex, Kent, East Sussex, and Oxfordshire in the ...

31 July 2024

Care home provider uses Amazon voice recognition software to 'improve' lives of residents

A care home provider is using voice technology to improve the lives of residents and carers. Oakland Care - a chain based across Essex, Kent, East Sussex, and Oxfordshire in the ...

31 July 2024

Sonic X Shadow Generations has a new Kingdom Valley Act I music promo

SEGA has shared a 'Sonic X Shadow Generations' music video featuring a remix of 'Kingdom Valley Act 1'. Fans haven't seen Kingdom Valley since 2006's platformer 'Sonic The Hedgehog 06', but ...
31 July 2024

EA promises 'epic' new Battlefield game

The next 'Battlefield' game is "one of" EA's "most ambitious projects" in their history. In its recent earnings report, the gaming giant teased an "epic Battlefield experience" is on the way ...

31 July 2024

Is a new Scooby-Doo game on the way?

A new 'Scooby-Doo' game might be on the way. Matthew Lillard, the voice actor of Shaggy, Scooby-Doo's crime-busting companion, has teased an "experience" based on the classic children's cartoon, and has ...
31 July 2024

Activision fixes cheating detection issue

Activision has vowed it's "committed to combating cheaters" after a rise in reports for 'Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III'. After the 2023 title arrived on the Xbox Games Pass, there ...

30 July 2024

Star Trek and Doctor Who unite for Intergalactic Friendship Day

'Star Trek' and 'Doctor Who' are uniting for Intergalactic Friendship Day (30.07.24) From Wednesday (01.08.24), fans will celebrate an unprecedented crossover between the two sci-fi universes as the come together for ...
30 July 2024

Sega to acquire Stakelogic

Sega Sammy Holdings has reached an agreement to acquire Stakelogic. The Japanese global holding company and conglomerate, formed from the merger of Sega and Sammy Corporation in 2004, has announced that ...

30 July 2024

GTA6 leak 'not as important as people think'

The 'Grand Theft Auto 6' leak was "not as important as people think". A huge 'GTA 6' leak, which Rockstar deemed "extremely disappointing", took place in September 2022, but a former ...

29 July 2024

YouTube upgrades safety standards to 'protect' users

YouTube is upgrading safety standards in an effort to "protect" users. The Google-owned video-sharing site has more than 2.7 billion users around the globe who share and view content alike and ...

29 July 2024

Fitbit data uncovers connections between sleep and disease

Fitbit data has shown how sleep deprivation can impact health. The Google-woned fitness watch company provided Nature Medicine with a raft of data from users for the largest study of its ...

29 July 2024

PS Plus Extra and Premium see slump

PS Plus Extra and Premium's player count fell in July. New data, revealed by TrueTrophies, has revealed that PS Plus Extra and Premium games for July 2024 saw 48 percent fewer ...

29 July 2024

Olympic-themed video games 'are time-sensitive products'

Olympic-themed video games "are extremely time-sensitive products". The Paris Olympics kicked off earlier this month, and Christopher Paul, a professor of communications and media at Seattle University, has explained why there ...

29 July 2024

Activision: Skill-based matchmaking is better for gamers

Activision believes skill-based matchmaking is better for all gamers. The video game publisher - which has enjoyed huge success with the 'Call of Duty' and 'Guitar Hero' franchises - has published ...

29 July 2024

Amazon Prime Video issues huge new update that will make use of AI

Amazon is to offer "personalised recommendations" to its Prime Video users with the help of AI. The tech giant's in-house video streaming service offers millions of blockbusters and television series to ...

26 July 2024

GTA VI WON’T be affected by video game strike, says SAG-AFTRA rep

‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ (‘GTA VI’) will reportedly be safe from the video game strike, a SAG-AFTRA spokesperson has insisted. After the union announced yesterday (25.07.24) video game voice actors and ...
26 July 2024

Paradox CEO says studio ‘made the wrong calls in several projects’ after cancelling Life by You

Paradox Interactive boss Fredrik Wester has admitted the publisher “made the wrong calls in several projects” following the cancellation of ‘Life by You’. The game - which would have been a ...

25 July 2024

Stalker 2 pushed back to late 2024

'Stalker 2: Heart of Chernobyl' has been delayed again. The upcoming first-person-shooter has suffered several pushbacks throughout its development at Ukrainian studio GSC Game World, and was due to release in ...

25 July 2024

Phantom Blade Zero will have non-linear map 'just like Souls games before Elden Ring'

'Phantom Blade Zero' will have a non-linear map "just like Souls games before 'Elden Ring'." Although developer S-Game previously insisted the upcoming role-playing-game (RPG) won't be too similar to the 'Dark ...

25 July 2024

Respawn U-turns over Apex Legends Battle Pass changes

Respawn Entertainment has gone back on its plans for 'Apex Legends' next Battle Pass. Earlier this month, the developer announced both its normal Battle Pass and the newly-released Premium+ track would ...

24 July 2024

Humble Games announces ‘restructuring operations’ amid layoff claims

Humble Games has announced it will be undergoing “restructuring operations” after employees claimed the company was axing all of its staff. The studio - which has published titles like ‘Bo: Path ...

24 July 2024

Mario+Rabbids head Davide Soliani leaves Ubisoft after 25 years with the studio

Davide Soliani has left Ubisoft after 25 years with the company. The developer had served as creative director on both ‘Mario+Rabbids Kingdom Battle’ and the most recent ‘Mario+Rabbids Sparks of Hope’, ...

24 July 2024

GTA VI might disappoint some people, says ex-Rockstar dev

‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ (‘GTA VI’) might leave some fans disappointed, according to former Rockstar Games developer Obbe Vermeij. As fans continue to scrounge for information about the highly-anticipated action-adventure ...

23 July 2024

Netflix has 80 games in development and is looking to release 'one new title per month'

Netflix has over 80 games in development and plans to launch "about one new title per month". Since entering the gaming space in 2021, the streaming giant has gradually picked up ...