Items tagged with game development
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Alan Velasco - Mon, Jun 02, 2025
The gaming industry is currently going through some turbulent times, which has seen a plethora of studios get shutdown. It has led to discussions regarding how the business needs to change to become more sustainable and move away from...
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Alan Velasco - Tue, Mar 11, 2025
The game industry continues to integrate artificial intelligence into the game development process. Some of the biggest players, such as EA and Microsoft, have demoed some of the tools being worked on internally that the companies hope to use in the future. Now, it seems another gaming giant...
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Alan Velasco - Wed, Dec 04, 2024
During an interview with the BBC, co-CEO of PlayStation Herman Hulst was asked about the role of AI in game development. It’s an important question as AI continues to occupy an increasing role in business operations, and the gaming...
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Alan Velasco - Tue, Oct 15, 2024
Game developers and publishers have been using the Denuvo digital rights management (DRM) scheme to protect their games for several years, often to the chagrin of PC gamers. The reason Denuvo has such a bad reputation is because it’s often...
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Alan Velasco - Mon, Jun 24, 2024
Astrocade AI has raised $12 million in funding from several companies, including NVIDIA, according to a report in VentureBeat. The company describes itself as a “platform that makes the creation of games and interactive experiences easy...
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Tim Sweezy - Tue, Nov 07, 2023
Microsoft announced a new partnership with Inworld AI to expand the tech giant's ability to extend AI-enhanced tools to game developers. In a tweet, Inworld AI commented that generative AI provides new opportunities for game developers to...
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Tim Sweezy - Sun, Jul 23, 2023
The argument is being made that artificial intelligence will create more jobs in the video game industry, as well as more games, and free up game devs to be more creative. However, the counter-argument is still prevalent, in that AI will...
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Zak Killian - Thu, Mar 23, 2023
At this stage, we probably don't need to tell an audience of technology enthusiasts that Unreal Engine is capable of mind-blowing photorealistic visuals. Indeed, that's really not even what Epic's demo at GDC was all about. Unreal Engine...
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Tim Sweezy - Sat, Jan 21, 2023
A new report from the Game Development Conference (GDC) details that player harassment toward developers and those who work in the industry is a major issue. Out of those surveyed, 91% said that harassment and toxicity toward developers...
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Tim Sweezy - Wed, Aug 31, 2022
NetEase, best known for its mobile gaming fortune, has acquired French developer-publisher Quantic Dream. This marks the Chinese company's first venture into the European market, as it looks to expand its reach worldwide.
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Joel Hruska - Sun, Jan 05, 2014
Over the past few years, short game writing "jams" have become a popular way to bring developers together in a conference with a single overarching theme. These competitions are typically 24-48 hours long and involve a great deal of caffeine, frantic coding, and creative design. The 28th Ludum...
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Dave Altavilla - Sun, Oct 26, 2008
It use to be that video game developers were geeks in their basements crunching code for hours on end until their eyes bled, with hardly a business plan behind them, never mind a justifiable business case that would support making a career out of their artform. In fact, gaming itself...
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