Analysis
EA remains focused on live services with 14 new games this year
Sensor Tower — Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp gets a boost thanks to New Horizons
Activision Blizzard: Next premium Call of Duty title is on track for the fall
Epitopes.world taps AI to predict COVID-19 vaccine success
Microsoft Research’s VROOM combines life-sized AR avatars with robots
Electronic Arts beats investor expectations with $1.39 billion in Q4 revenue
FIFA 20 tops 25 million players while Madden reaches highest engagement ever
Apex Legends was the most downloaded free-to-play PS4 game in 2019
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order tops 10 million copies sold
Candy Crush sees more play than ever since Activision-Blizzard’s 2016 acquisition
Call of Duty: Warzone hits 60 million downloads in less than 2 months
Blizzard games see huge boosts of players during pandemic
Activision Blizzard posts $1.79 billion Q1 revenues as pandemic creates gaming surge
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OpenAI begins publicly tracking AI model efficiency
War Remains depicts World War I’s Battle of Passchendaele in VR
Carnegie Mellon and University of Pittsburgh develop low-cost, modular ICU ventilator
Apple’s virtual WWDC20 will begin on June 22
Google announces Web Vitals, user experience and performance metrics for websites
Open RAN Policy Coalition unites 31 tech companies to lobby U.S. on 5G
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Unreal Engine 4.25 launches with next-gen console support
GigaSpaces raises $12 million to accelerate AI workloads with in-memory computing
How Amazon builds games by working backward from players
Cockroach Labs raises $86.6 million to store enterprise data in multiple locations
Dazzle Rocks raises $6.8 million for Minecraft-like mobile MMO
Crucible is Amazon’s answer to Valorant and Overwatch, launches May 20
Firefox 76 arrives with password management and Zoom improvements
Creatively launches job platform for creative professionals
Omilia raises $20 million for AI customer service chatbots
Saama and iNDX.Ai Launch New COVID-19 Command Center Analytics Platform To Expedite Clinical Research Efforts by Individual Sponsors
Lenovo launches two-processor servers with 64-core AMD Epyc chips
HP launches new Chromebooks for enterprise workers stuck at home
EU robotics project gives maintenance workers a ‘second pair of hands’
Back Market raises $120 million to grow refurbished gadget market
IBM’s Watson AIOps automates IT anomaly detection and remediation
