Image: Lance McDonald / YouTube The final version of Bloodborne featured coldblood, what were essentially portable blood echoes. In the alpha build of Bloodborne, these items were "fresh livers" - and bosses would have dropped special livers of their own. The livers were discovered in an alpha build of the game, which Aussie developer Lance…

Hand of Fate is a unique hybrid of deck-building card adventure and action role-playing game that came out of nowhere to become one of my favourite games of 2015. Hand of Fate 2 improves upon the original in every way. (more…)

Prime Day is upon us and drone company DJI is getting in on the action offering the DJI Spark Fly More Combo with a £100 discount.That means that DJI's latest compact drone can be yours for £479, with the Fly More Combo meaning you get not only the Spark, but a spare battery, controller and other accessories.Originally priced at £795 by DJI, the…

There are tons of games you can play with your Amazon Alexa devices, some better than others. While a few require special buzzer-in buttons, When in Rome is the first to require a $30 board game. It’s a travel-centric trivia game that takes about 40 minutes and two teams to play. But it’s also completely dependent on Alexa. If you don’t have a…

Groupon shares surged Monday after a report that the discount-slinging website is actively seeking a buyer.The merchandise and voucher vendor has approached several public companies in recent weeks to try to drum up interest in a sale, Recode reported on Saturday, citing two people it said were briefed on the effort and without identifying the…

Beijing. Credit: Nikolaj Potanin https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/legalcode The world’s largest manufacturer and second largest economy is making waves in robotics. From any angle — industrial strategy, emerging markets, or international partnerships — there are many opportunities for suppliers looking at the China robot market.…

The console brand accounts for one-third of the total advertising outlay in June. GamesBeat has partnered with iSpot.tv, the real-time TV ad measurement company with attention and conversion analytics from more than eight million smart TVs, to bring you a monthly report on how gaming brands are spending. The results below are for the top five…

US computer technology multinational Oracle confirmed the general release of its blockchain platform in an official press release July 16. The launch follows a series of trials with banking, business and government clients. Oracle Blockchain Cloud Service (OBCS) focuses on transaction efficiency and supply chain authentication, using Hyperledger…

The force is strong with these Amazon Prime Day deals on "Star Wars" merchandise! From Millennium Falcon toys and accessories to an app-enabled droid and cuddly Chewbacca pillow, here are Space.com's picks for the best "Star Wars" swag on sale today. We'll update this page throughout Amazon Prime Day with more deals for space fans as we see…

If you can't find it on Google, you will definitely find it on the Dark Web.Black markets on the Dark web are not known for just buying drugs, it is a massive hidden network where you can buy pretty much anything you can imagine—from pornography, weapon, and counterfeit currencies, to hacking tools, exploits, malware, and zero-days.One such type…

Ryan Eustice’s interest in self-driving cars began 12,500 feet below the surface of the Atlantic. As a PhD student in the joint MIT-Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Program, Eustice focused on creating technologies for underwater vehicles to map and understand their environments. “That’s how I got into this line of work originally,” explains…

It’s never the final fantasyGameCentral readers name the games they’ve never played but always wanted to, from Total War to Pokémon. The subject for this week’s Hot Topic was suggested by reader Rich, who asked whether it was not owning the right hardware that kept you from playing a game or some other reason – like not having enough time or…

Assassin’s Creed Origins – putting the series back on trackA reader looks back at the ups and downs of the Assassin’s Creed franchise and how the failures of Unity had such a positive effect. Assassin’s Creed is a well-known gaming franchise. In the space of 11 years there has been 19 entries, all the way from the PlayStation 3 to the Nintendo DS.…

Amazon's Prime Day deals are throwing up a range of discounts and if you've been waiting for an Alexa-compatible smart plug, then now's the time to buy.The TP-Link HS100 smart plug is Alexa-compatible, meaning you can control it by voice via your Echo. Normally it will cost you about £29, but it's now down to just £17.49. The TP-Link HS100 smart…

Mark Coppock/Digital Trends Digital assistants have historically kept to their own turfs, with a great deal of competition between them by platform but much less on a given device itself. Siri owned iOS and MacOS, Google Assistant was the default Android choice, and so on. That’s rapidly changing. You can now install Cortana on iOS and Android,…

The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) has announced it will award a grant of nearly $1 million to a blockchain startup in a move aimed to advance the development of a decentralized energy grid. The Colorado-based Grid7 is one of 95 grant recipients announced by the DoE on Monday, which all won the second phase of the department's Small Business…

Beijing’s new US$12 billion airport, which is designed to handle up to 100 million passengers a year at full capacity, will feature cutting-edge surveillance technology to ease bottlenecks in security and immigration screening. Chinese artificial intelligence start-up Yitu is preparing a bid to provide its facial recognition technology to the…