YouTube has launched its spin-off gaming platform in the UK and the US. Branded “YouTube Gaming”, the dedicated app and website focuses exclusively on gaming content, with a greater emphasis on live steams. Gaming videos are already a major draw for YouTube, wiith site visitors spending billions of hours watching them every month. YouTube’s most-followed […]
GameFly, the console game subscription service, is expanding the availability of its GameFly Streaming service on Samsung Smart TVs to now include the US, Canada and eight additional European countries. This expansion grows the number of markets with access to GameFly Streaming on Samsung Smart TVs to 20, adding to recent launches in Brazil, Israel, […]
Time Warner has reported financial results for its second quarter ended June 30th. Revenues increased 8 per cent to $7.3 billion (€6.7bn) due to growth across all operating divisions. Adjusted operating income grew 15 per cent to $1.9 billion due to increases at Turner and Warner Bros, partially offset by a decline at HBO. Operating income […]
Xbox One owners will soon be able to use their game console to record and play back live television from free, over-the-air broadcasts with the launch of a plug-in DVR. Speaking at the Gamescom event in Germany, Xbox director of program management Mike Ybarra said the service won’t require a subscription and will be available […]
A authoritative study in the journal Energy Efficiency, and referenced in ‘Display Daily’, states that the Gaming community collectively consume about 75 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in 2012, the latest year where data can be analysed. Authors Evan Mills (from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) and Nathanial Mills (from GreeningTheBeast.com) say that around 1 billion […]
Nickelodeon, one of the most widely recognised and distributed multimedia entertainment brands for kids and family, and Nintendo, global leader in the creation and development of interactive entertainment, introduce new customizations for portable Nintendo consoles. Effective immediately, Nintendo 3DS and 2DS’ users are able to add a further level of personalisation to their system. Entertaining […]
Consumers are motivated to play video games because they relieve boredom, provide a challenge, create a more social atmosphere and help to escape reality. A study by Strategy Analytics has found that mobile gaming continues to primarily be for quick entertainment in downtime; in an average week, more time is spent playing mobile games outside […]
YouTube has announced that YouTube Gaming will launch in the UK and US later this summer, a new app and website designed to keep users connected to the games, players, and culture that matter most to them, with videos, live streams, and the biggest community of gamers on the web – all in one place. […]
Reliance Digital TV, a wholly owned subsidiary of Reliance Communications and DTH arm of Reliance Group, has engaged with Visiware, the specilaist in games for interactive television, to power iGAMES service on its DTH platform. Reliance Digital TV’s customers across India will have access to an improved gaming experience with twice the number of games […]
In just the last 3 months, Amazon has added over 600 channels, apps and games to the Amazon Fire TV platform – more than Roku and Apple TV in the same timeframe the company claims. Popular new titles include Popcornflix, Funny Or Die, Candy Crush Saga, and Fox News. In addition to these new titles, […]