Recognising that people are sharing content on the Internet more than ever, with the trend expected to continue, US telco Verizon has confirmed that its FiOS residential customers will receive upload speeds that match their download speeds, making it easier and faster to share. This speed upgrade is free to current customers, and comes at […]
A report from Juniper Research has found that global revenues from PC and console games will decline from $46.5 billion this year to $41 billion by 2019. It also reveals that despite the decreasing sales of console hardware and increasing significance of mobile platforms, PC and console games will still account for over 50 per […]
Microsoft has confirmed it is shutting down its Xbox Entertainment Studios – the company responsible for making original content for its Xbox Live subscribers. The planned Halo TV series will, however, remain unaffected. The news follows the announcement that Microsoft is to cut 18,000 jobs over the next six months, marking the biggest cutbacks in […]
The UK’s Creative Industries have come together in their largest-ever collaboration, and successfully levered public investment to match their own contribution to support skills and talent development and ensure their continuous growth and global competitiveness. This investment is the successful result of a bid to the second round of the Employer Ownership Pilot (EOP2), which […]
Data from Kantar Media’s syndicated study, futurePROOF, shows that tablets have become mainstream consumer devices with more than half of 16-44s now having access to them. Forty-five per cent of all UK adults
Google has unveiled its new TV service – Android TV. Combining games, streaming services, music and catch-up services, the device will take on the likes of Amazon’s Fire TV and Apple TV. Google’s David Burke outlined the new platform during developer conference Google I/O, saying the company wanted to treat TV the same as phones […]
DFC Intelligence has announced that for the second time this year it is significantly raising its 5 year video game forecast. Overall game software revenue is expected to go from $64 billion in 2014 to $100 billion in 2018. This includes revenue from PC games, console games and mobile games, but does not include hardware […]
Philips has won a UK court ruling in a global battle over patents for recognising hand gestures and motion on Nintendo’s Wii gaming consoles. Judge Colin Birss said a Nintendo unit infringed two Philips patents in a ruling. Nintendo didn’t violate a third patent pertaining to modelling a body in a virtual environment, Birss said. […]
SyncScreen, innovators in the creation and delivery of harmonised two-screen TV experiences, has partnered with Civolution, the leading provider of technology and solutions for identifying, managing and monetizing media content, to deploy its Automatic Content Recognition (ACR) technology, SyncNow, at the core of the company’s proprietary synchronisation engine, the SyncScreen Framework for the first ever […]
In the week leading up to the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles, where video game publishers are touting their latest releases, CEG TEK International (CEG TEK), a provider of in-depth business intelligence and comprehensive anti-piracy solutions, tracked piracy rates of 60 popular video game titles. In its study