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GUEST: Representatives from Facebook, Twitter, and Google are set to face hostile questions from Congress about how Russia used their platforms to influence U.S. politics. The problem of unfriendly foreign powers spreading propaganda is not new. It has happened for centuries. What is new, however, is the reach of the Internet and modern social networks and the speed with which […]

The Tower at Tortenna’s story unfolds as you explore a quiet, mysterious city that’s seemingly abandoned by its inhabitants. Tower Team International developed it during the annual three-day DreamHack game jam, and it was picked as the winner out of 171 games. It’s now available for PC and Mac on the indie game store Itch.io […]

Blizzard Entertainment’s Overwatch League has announced 12 teams for its inaugural season, and over the last month or so, it’s unveiled each squad’s banner colors, logos, and names. Today, Optic Gaming announced that its team is the Houston Outlaws. The Outlaws’ logo features revolvers that suggest the classic Texan longhorn skull, along with the trademark bright […]

Sony Interactive Entertainment showed off a brutal scene from The Last of Us: Part II at Paris Games Week on Monday, and the cruelty in that clip generated a loud response from fans and others who were watching the publisher’s live show. On this week’s GamesBeat Decides podcast, hosts Jeffrey Grubb and Mike Minotti discuss […]

Gram​ ​Games​ has had more than 25 million downloads of its Merge puzzle franchise for mobile devices. And today, the company is launching the fourth game in the series, Merge Farm. The iOS title follows the success of predecessors Merge Town, Merge Dragons, and Merged. The series uses a mechanic of merging two puzzle pieces together […]

GUEST: The market for AI-driven personal assistants and bots will almost double in 2018, reaching more than $12 billion by 2020 with 1.6 billion active users, according to Statista. Today, pretty much every tech giant is making digital agents for their customers. Amazon’s Alexa is getting new looks and perks, Microsoft’s Cortana has just inhabited a brand […]

Electronic Arts continues to reap benefits from its position as the leader in sports games, as both Madden NFL and FIFA Soccer produced solid results on multiple platforms in the most recent quarter. EA said that more than 50 percent of Madden NFL 18 players engaged in the “Longshot” story mode — the first such narrative […]