Microsoft’s PlayFab grows ninefold in 3 years
Three years since being acquired, Microsoft’s PlayFab division said today that its monthly active users grew nearly nine times since the software giant acquired...
How Unity is positioning itself to democratize the metaverse
“Right now we’re just at the cusp of getting to the point where a lot of technologies, a lot of concepts, are coming together,...
How pandemic socialization trends have accelerated the move into virtual spaces
What will the social graph look like this year? What is it going to look like two years from now, and how is it...
Magic Leap founder Rony Abovitz creates startup Sun and Thunder to build synthetic beings
Former Magic Leap CEO Rony Abovitz has started a new company called Sun and Thunder to focus on AI characters and interactive storytelling. In...
JetPlay’s Ludo AI platform accelerates game concept creation
JetPlay has launched Ludo, a game creation platform that uses artificial intelligence to accelerate the creative process. The Seattle-based JetPlay has launched the open...
IMVU relaunches as Together Labs, raises $35 million
IMVU has relaunched as Together Labs and raised $35 million from Structural Capital, NetEase, and other investors. Together Labs has also launched a new...
IMVU launches VCoin transferable digital currency
Social avatar platform IMVU is launching its VCoin transferable digital currency that will allow users to buy, gift, hold, earn, and convert earnings to...
IMVU: Making the coin of the realm for the metaverse
IMVU has been a relatively quiet and unnoticed company in the online gaming and social media worlds. But the company did something recently that...
Black Eyed Peas and Zynga send holiday social-distancing message for #PlayApartTogether campaign
Zynga has teamed up with the Black Eyed Peas musical group to help keep us safe during the holidays. As the pandemic hit earlier...
DeepMind’s MuZero picks up the rules of games as it plays
In a paper published in the journal Science late last year, Google parent company Alphabet’s DeepMind detailed AlphaZero, an AI system that could teach itself...