Digi-Capital’s Games Report Q3 2016 found that games investments, M&As and stock markets have delivered a massive turnaround after last year’s games deals ice age. So far this year, games investments have hit $1.6 billion, mergers & acquisitions $25.7 billion, with Digi-Capital’s global games stock market index up 17 per cent in the last 12 […]
Aggressive promotional activity from smartphone vendors and the launch of premium smartphone VR solutions, including Google’s Daydream View, will help drive the installed base of VR headsets from 4 million in 2015 to 81 million in 2020, according to the Virtual Reality Market Opportunity Report 2016
Oculus, the virtual reality company owned by Facebook, is working on a new headset in an attempt to make the technology more “affordable”. Speaking at an event in San Jose, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged the prohibitive cost of the current Oculus Rift headset. Zuckerberg said. “We believe that there is a sweet spot – […]
UK quad-play operator TalkTalk has stepped up its continued commitment to TV with a renewed deal to offer its customers premium Sky content. The new multi-year agreement will give TalkTalk TV customers continued access to Sky entertainment channels such as Sky 1 and Sky Living. In addition, TalkTalk will continue to offer live and on-demand […]
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, and Leader of Barking and Dagenham Council, Cllr Darren Rodwell, are exploring plans to build what could be the capital’s largest film studios, based in Dagenham. The Mayor has teamed up with Film London, the London Local Enterprise Panel and the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham to commission […]
US luxury movie-watching brand iPic Entertainment and Netflix are partnering to release select original Netflix films at iPic Theatres. The partnership is set to launch on October 7th with the war thriller, The Siege of Jadotville starring Jamie Dornan (Fifty Shades of Grey, The Fall) and Guillaume Canet (Joyeux Noël, Love Me If You Dare) […]
A report on the independent ‘OurBeeb’ web-site from Hussein Kesvani, who is head of communications at the Theos think tank, argues that far from scrapping the coverage of religion and ethics, coverage of the topics should be increased. Earlier this year a British Social Attitudes survey said that about half of Britons were “irreligious”. Kesvani […]
Streaming device specialist Roku has revealed a major update to the Roku Publishing Platform allowing content owners to quickly reach its 10 million + households. Content owners can now use a new solution called Roku Direct Publisher to launch streaming channels without entering a single line of code. With a few simple steps, including providing […]
Hopster, the app that helps kids learn through TV shows, has announced the launch of a new Apple TV app. Created in partnership with technology design studio We Are Hive, and developed in close collaboration with children and child psychologists, Hopster’s new app offers a bespoke, multi-screen user experience for kids, optimised for Apple TV. […]
Argentina’s La Nacion newspaper is getting into the pay-TV business. It has launched LN+, available on two major pay-TV systems (Cablevision and DirecTV Latin America). “Today we take an important step in our evolution as a communication company by launching our first pay TV channel to expand the reach of our journalism and quality content”, […]