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The rise of esports as a spectator phenomenon
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Epic delays Fortnite’s account-merging tool to 2019
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Hypergiant Sensory Sciences raises $5 million to track critical infrastructure with AI
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ProBeat: Twitter’s biggest mistake was giving Donald Trump a pass
Google’s Home Hub hits Apple in its new blind spot: Affordable tablets
Sensor Tower: Black Friday was biggest day ever for U.S. mobile game revenues
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Baron Corbin — ‘fired TGI Friday manager’ — and other successful influencer strategies (VB Live)
Apple approves Indian government’s Do Not Disturb app, avoiding iPhone ban
NPD: U.S. video game spending up 24% to $9.1 billion in Q3 2018
Google-led AMP project unveils ‘open governance’ committees consisting of Microsoft, Twitter, others
Shards of Infinity deck-building cyberpunk game goes digital in 2019
The DeanBeat: How game developers can drive our platforms forward
Call of Duty: Global Operations strategy game gets a soft launch on mobile
Apple Music will come to Amazon Echo devices in mid-December
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Google doubles Hangouts Meet limit to 100 participants
Instagram now lets you send Stories only to ‘close friends’
DigiLens raises funding for holographic AR displays from Niantic and Mitsubishi Chemical
Firefox Reality VR browser gets support for 7 new languages, bookmarking, and more
Chip industry honors former Stanford president John Hennessy
Nvidia’s latest plan to sell its old GPUs: Free V-Bucks!
Snap looks beyond teens for growth
Anthem closed alpha: When it starts and how to get in
DHL will invest $300 million to quadruple robots in warehouses in 2019
Virtual Desktop now mirrors Windows PCs on Oculus Go and Gear VR
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5 startup trends that shaped the Midwest in 2018
Bloodstained gets support from the 2D experts at WayForward
Acer may shutter or sell StarVR after location-based VR revenues sink
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Beyond Kim Kardashian: Making influencer marketing lucrative by being authentic (VB Live)
The Hero of Deathtrap Dungeon is … a studio led by IBM Watson’s ex-chief design officer
Microsoft redesigns its Office apps icons
Strategy Analytics: Nintendo will overtake Sony as top console maker in 2019
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Adobe’s Smart Tags for video can classify objects, scenes, attributes, and actions
SwiftKey now lets you search the web directly from the Android keyboard app
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