Here’s a situation, as a hypothetical. You were a longtime Destiny player, but after you cleaned up King’s Fall, got within striking distance of maximum light and got all the exotics you were interested in, you stopped playing for a bit, waiting for the next update. In the meantime, Ubisoft launched The Division, another shared world shooter cum MMO with some of the same mechanics. You picked that one up, hit the max level and started falling into some of those same loot loops. But then! Destiny announced a big update for April with a higher light level and some new encounters. At the same time, The Division announced a big update adding new loot, new enemies, and crucially, an endgame incursion (raid) called “Falcon Lost.” All of a sudden, our hypothetical gamer has a decision to make. He or she can still play both, of course, but one has to come first. And that’s where we’re at on April 12th.

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Quantum Break does a surprisingly great job with its use of time travel, as demonstrated by the game’s rather impressive ending.

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Check out the first trailer for Destiny’s free April DLC.

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Twitter last week announced that it had entered into a deal with NFL to acquire broadcast rights to ten Thursday night National Football League games during the 2016 season. Reports suggest that Twitter paid $10 million for this package and its closest competitor Facebook was also interested in these broadcast rights, but later withdrew from the bidding process. In addition to live streaming of the games, the NFL-Twitter partnership includes in-game highlights as well as pre-game Periscope broadcasts from players and teams. The NFL is indeed very popular, such that the Thursday night games alone attracted 17 million users in the last season. Twitter has struggled to increase not only the number of users on its platform, but their engagement as well. This deal should enable the company to leverage its “live” platform and keep users engaged for longer, as they watch and tweet posts about the games on its platform. However the advertising revenue potential from this deal is limited as the company will not be able to sell any national advertising spots during the game and advertising revenue will be limited to local ads. We believe the NFL streaming should popularize this platform and increase user engagement in the short term. However the company might have to focus on several such initiatives in future to create a longer term impact.

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Shareholder value theory is wrong

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‘Vikings’ has its first miss of the season, as the show kills three characters off in one fell swoop.

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Venture capital firms invested $406 million in the solar sector during the first quarter of this year, according to Mercom Capital Group, a clean energy research company based in Austin, Texas.

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