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Read More »Google, Tiny Lab and others sued for failing to stop apps tracking kids
What game is four years old, has 270m monthly players and yet makes no money whatsoever?
Chrome's Dino-Runner game is four years old today
Read More »Industry veteran Phil Harrison joins Google
Games industry veteran Phil Harrison is joining Google, taking up the role of vice president and general manager at the monolithic search giant’s California headquarters. Harrison is best known for a 15 year tenure as head of Sony’s network of game studios, in addition to three years as a senior …
Read More »YouTube to be pulled from Amazon Fire TV
Google is blocking access to YouTube on two Amazon devices. The company has announced that YouTube access for both Fire TV and Echo Show owners will be halted on January 1st. The news comes as tensions between Google and Amazon escalate. The precise reasons behind the disagreement vary by report, …
Read More »HTC and Google cancel wireless VR headset release in the US
The two companies will continue to work together and HTC's Vive Focus headset will be coming in 2018
Read More »Assassin’s Creed partners with Google TensorFlow for hieroglyphics translation
Ubisoft is looking for researchers and historians to contribute to The Hieroglyphics Initative to help identify and translate the sympls using machine learning
Read More »HTC and Google reveal $1.1bn smartphone deal
After months of falling profits, HTC has announced a $1.1bn cooperation agreement with Google that will see a number of HTC employees join the search giant. What’s more, Google will receive a non-exclusive licensing agreement for HTC IP. Many of the HTC employees joining Google have already worked on the …
Read More »Google and Warner Bros. team up for Wonder Women coding project
Made with Code allows users to code three scenes from the recent DC Universe film
Read More »HTC is making a new standalone Vive VR headset for Google
The next evolution of VR tech will look to free the headsets from separate hardware. Google has announced that it has partnered to develop two virtual reality headsets that will work as standalone devices. That means they will not have to be plugged into a powerful gaming PC, console or …
Read More »Google and VIVE team up for standalone Daydream VR unit
No separate processing unit required for the new unit from VIVE
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