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‘Uber’ Set to Compete with Google in the Development of Driverless Cars
A report from Bloomberg says that Uber, the app-based transportation network and taxi company, and Google, one its own biggest investors, “are going to war over self-driving taxis.” The two companies are reportedly now moving into each other's territories, with Google working on a ride-sharing app while Uber is developing its own self-driving car technology.
2:50 PM EST 2/4/2015
Windows RT, the Windows 8 version for mobile devices using the 32-bit ARM architecture that was launched in October 2012, may just yet be quietly phased out after it was learned that Microsoft will no longer be building the Lumia 2520, the last remaining ARM-tablet that runs on the RT operating system, according to Dutch tech news site PCM. The company itself last week already confirmed that it has halted the production of its own Surface 2 ARM-tablets.Read more
1:35 PM EST 2/4/2015
Apple's iOS 8.2, the next update to Apple's mobile operating system, will be ready by March, in time for the official launching of Apple Watch around April.Read more
5:40 PM EST 2/4/2015
Resident Evil 6: The Final Chapter confirmed to be filming this year.Read more
3:29 PM EST 2/4/2015
Sony announced that a 'Bloodborne Limited Edition' PlayStation 4 console bundle will be coming out on the same day as the game, which in Japan will be on March 26. According to Softpedia, the company has confirmed that the limited edition bundle special offer will also be available in Europe where Bloodborne will be coming out on March 25. To date, nothing has been said as to whether same offer stands for USA and the other territories where the game is scheduled to be officially launched.Read more
3:00 PM EST 2/4/2015
Bethesda Softworks' The Evil Within' s first downloadable content (DLC), titled “The Assignment,” will be released in early 2015, reports IGN. The DLCs for “The Consequence” and “The Keeper” will launch later in the year, the site adds. “The Assignment” is the first of a two-part story centered around Detective Sebastian Castellanos’ partner, Juli Kidman, with part two of her story being continued in “The Consequence.”Read more
2:20 PM EST 2/4/2015
Back in May 2006, Valve's Half-Life 3, or Half-Life 2: Episode Three, has been announced as the third and final installment in the series of episodic expansions, the last episode in the story arc that began on November 19, 1998, when the first Half-Life game was launched. Since making that announcement, nothing much has been heard about the concluding final chapter to the Half-Life saga. Instead, Valve Corporation has released sequels to as well as original new games, including Dota 2, Alien Swarm, The Orange Box, Ricochet, Deathmatch Classic, Left for Dead 2, Portal 2, Portal, Day of Defeat: Source, Team Fortress 2, and Counter Strike: Global Offensive.Read more
2:10 PM EST 2/4/2015
EA's Titanfall, an online multi-player first-person shooter game for Xbox One, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows which was released March of last year, is now on sale, along with other select EA titles, exclusive to Xbox LIVE Gold members according to a post at a gaming forum by NeoGAF.Read more
2:00 PM EST 2/4/2015
Lords of the Fallen's announced next planned downloadable content (DLC), titled “Ancient Labyrinth,” has been delayed until developer Deck 13 Interactive finishes work on the next patch for the base game, reports Softpedia.Read more
1:24 PM EST 2/4/2015
R&B singer Bobby Brown spoke out on Sunday regarding the condition of his daughter Bobbi Kristina Brown who is still in hospital after she was found unconscious in a bathtub at her home in Atlanta.Read more
1:22 PM EST 2/4/2015
The two of the most popular leading men of Marvel Studios are facing off in an intense Super Bowl bet for charity, and the stakes are obviously getting higher.Read more
11:53 AM EST 2/3/2015
Destiny, the online first-person shooter video game developed by Bungie and published by Activision, was released September 9 to the PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One platforms. Despite numerous rumors, Bungie has not officially confirmed, nor denied, that it will be developing a Destiny PC version anytime soon. Erik Hirshberg, the CEO of Activision Publishing, told Polygon back during last year's E3 event that “developing on PC is a different animal than developing for consoles and so we just want to make sure that we're putting one foot in front of the other and getting it right, and that it's of the highest possible quality. But obviously I see the same things about the natural fit.”Read more
12:40 PM EST 2/3/2015
BioWare’s Mass Effect 4 release date is still “years away,” said game producer Mike Gamble during July’s San Diego Comic-Con. Back then, the company was still focusing on their Dragon Age: Inquisition game which was set for a November 18 release date. Following that, they said they willfully commit their resources come 2015 to working on Mass Effect 4. As of now, Mass Effect 4 may already be halfway through in its development. In any event, Mass Effect 4 system requirement will likely be the same as that the then just completed for Dragon Age: Inquisition project and will likely also be available on the Microsoft Windows PC, Play Stations 3 and 4 as well as Xbox 360 and Xbox One platforms.Read more
2:30 PM EST 2/3/2015
Back in September last year, Jane Johnson, George R.R. Martin’s UK publisher, already announced that “The Winds of Winter” will not be released in 2015. And on January 6, she confirmed this with a tweet that reads “it's not in our 2015 publishing schedule as it stands – I know no more than that at the moment.”Read more
6:30 PM EST 2/3/2015
Knowing Apple's history with cell phones, the following iPhone will be an "S" model, experts are suggesting. They are further saying that Apple might suddenly feel like putting an end to this tradition and release iPhone 7 instead of iPhone 6 s.Read more