GamesBeat Rewind 2019: The year’s biggest trends … and where they’re heading in 2020
The game industry is in a huge period of flux, but 2019 only set the stage for enormous paradigm shifts that the coming year...
Building a solid hosting infrastructure is key to gaming’s future
Through the decades, gaming has grown from a niche hobby for a select few to a massive worldwide community. The online gaming community is...
Snap Games launches leaderboard games for friendly battles
Snapchat has been adding games as a way to keep friends engaged with each other. And now the company’s Snap Games division is introducing...
App Annie: The biggest apps and games of 2019
No doubt you’ve heard of Facebook Messenger, the top non-game app of 2019 in terms of downloads. But how about Free Fire, the battle...
DeepMind’s Dreamer AI learns from the past to predict the future
Some AI systems achieve goals in challenging environments by drawing on representations of the world informed by past experiences. They generalize these to novel...
How to keep your online game running and bug-free
Today’s game consoles offer functionalities — such as platform crossplay — that are something of a miracle. Because every game runs differently, especially across...
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit underlined the risks of relying on partners
From my perspective, attending this year’s Snapdragon Tech Summit was all but mandatory for a journalist covering 5G: It offered the very first opportunity to...
Facebook’s Hanabi-playing AI achieves state-of-the-art results
Facebook AI Research (FAIR) says it’s created the latest AI to achieve state-of-the-art performance when playing the card game Hanabi. The AI system achieves...
Qualcomm interview: Snapdragon XR’s future, from wired to 5G, VR to AR
Day three of Qualcomm’s 2019 Snapdragon Tech Summit is a big one for mixed reality — VR, AR, and XR — thanks to the...
Niantic and Qualcomm will build AR glasses for world-scale games
Fresh off today’s announcement of the Snapdragon XR2 mobile platform, Qualcomm has revealed an impressively ambitious early partner for its latest mixed reality effort:...