By Parker Wilhelm Yeah, yeah, you probably knew Minecraft is huge – but do you know exactly how huge? It turns out the creative cube builder has sold more than 106,859,714 copies to date, according to Mojang, with 53,000 copies still being sold each day since the beginning of this year. Not only is the…

By Parker Wilhelm Yeah, yeah, you probably knew Minecraft is huge – but do you know exactly how huge? It turns out the creative cube builder has sold more than 106,859,714 copies to date, according to Mojang, with 53,000 copies still being sold each day since the beginning of this year. Not only is the…

By Brian Heater The field is getting mighty crowded, but Samsung’s not backing down from its big fitness push. Today the company is unveiling two new wearables — an update to its Gear Fit activity tracker and the IconX, a pair of completely wireless earbuds aimed at runners. The company kicked off a pre-briefing with…

By Devin Coldewey The Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest is a yearly competition in which writers attempt to create the worst possible opening sentence to a novel. Google, for several reasons, should enter this year — in its latest self-driving car project report, the company writes: “As our honking algorithms improved, we’ve begun broadcasting our car horn…

By Lewis Leong Valve’s quirky Steam Controller has sold over half a million units, according to the company. The Steam Controller was released in November 2015 to accompany Valve’s Steam Machines, which are basically gaming PCs built for the living room. Valve had to rethink how a gamepad would work in a living room setting…

By Lewis Leong Valve’s quirky Steam Controller has sold over half a million units, according to the company. The Steam Controller was released in November 2015 to accompany Valve’s Steam Machines, which are basically gaming PCs built for the living room. Valve had to rethink how a gamepad would work in a living room setting…

By Parker Wilhelm After being all-but-official thanks to Instagram leaks, quarterly reports, and promotional Ray-Bans, Ubisoft has announced that Watch_Dogs 2 is happening and will appear at E3 2016 later this month. Ubisoft’s E3 press conference – and presumably our first look at the sequel to 2014’s cybercrime thriller – will stream live over YouTube,…

By Parker Wilhelm After being all-but-official thanks to Instagram leaks, quarterly reports, and promotional Ray-Bans, Ubisoft has announced that Watch_Dogs 2 is happening and will appear at E3 2016 later this month. Ubisoft’s E3 press conference – and presumably our first look at the sequel to 2014’s cybercrime thriller – will stream live over YouTube,…

By Devin Coldewey It’s hard enough for a grown human to figure out how to navigate a crowd sometimes — so what chance does a clumsy and naive robot have? To prevent future collisions and awkward “do I go left or right” situations, Stanford researchers are hoping their “Jackrabbot” robot can learn the rules of…

By Brian Heater Sure Pebble put its best forward when it launched not one but three new products the other week, but a startup’s got to stagger a little bit of news to keep us interested ahead of launch (though judging by its current tally of $9.7 million on Kickstarter, the company is doing just…

By Kevin Lee Last year, Asus released an absolutely mental 17-inch liquid-cooled gaming laptop and now it has an updated model complete with a new RGB mechanical keyboard and two GPUs for even more graphical performance. From the outside, there aren’t too many apparent changes. The GX800 looks almost completely identical to its 17-inch predecessor…

By Kevin Lee Last year, Asus released an absolutely mental 17-inch liquid-cooled gaming laptop and now it has an updated model complete with a new RGB mechanical keyboard and two GPUs for even more graphical performance. From the outside, there aren’t too many apparent changes. The GX800 looks almost completely identical to its 17-inch predecessor…

By Hugh Langley By the end of 2017, all of the major games consoles might be offering virtual reality – yes, even Nintendo’s. According to Digitimes, which claims to have heard as much from its “upstream supply chain” sources, the Nintendo NX was pushed back into 2017 to incorporate a VR element (thanks, Nintendo Life).…

By Darren Allan Windows 10 has finally surpassed Windows 7, at least when it comes to PC gamers on Steam. Previously, Windows 10 64-bit had become the single most popular strain of OS, but now the total number of Windows 10 users (both 32-bit and 64-bit) has outstripped the total number of Windows 7 gamers…

By Natasha Lomas Internet connected button maker, bttn has launched a smaller version of its push-to-activate-a-digital service gadget. Read More …read more Source:: TechCrunch Gadgets