Facebook’s AI extracts playable characters from real-world videos
Remember those FMV games from the ’90s — the ones that blended prerecorded clips with animated sprites and 3D models? Facebook is bringing them...
Adjust’s Unbotify fraud prevention distinguishes between humans and bots in mobile apps
Adjust‘s newly acquired Unbotify division has launched fraud prevention that distinguishes between humans and bots in mobile apps. The aim is to put an...
Logitech launches Alexa-enabled Harmony Express universal remote
Building on its past home entertainment controls, Logitech is launching the Logitech Harmony Express universal remote control with built-in Amazon Alexa voice recognition capability....
Ubisoft’s Sam chat bot surpasses 1.6 million users and 10 million questions answered in a year
A year ago, French video game publisher Ubisoft launched a chat bot named Sam to keep players engaged with games connected to their Ubisoft...
Google’s Stadia bet: Breaking barriers — if the games and tech can support it
How about this for an idea: a digital entertainment platform which can stream high-quality content from a remote data center to any device, anywhere...
Technalysis: Gamers are willing to try multi-device cloud gaming
Cloud gaming’s second coming has been a big topic ever since Google announced its Stadia game streaming service will be coming this year. And...
Remote AR will make it so we can work — or play — anywhere
Augmented reality has been something of a trailblazer in the gaming industry in recent years. The technology has been hovering around the periphery of...
Promethean AI automatically generates game scenes, like a bedroom, for human artists
Promethean AI uses artificial intelligence to help human artists create art for video games. It can, for instance, automatically generate a bedroom when a...
Gain 3x users with effective social and game content moderation (VB Live)
Social networks today are undergoing a massive paradigm shift as companies realize that content moderation and positive reinforcement can actually increase user retention and...
Ubisoft Winnipeg guides Ubisoft’s use of AI and cloud computing to make bigger, better games
Darryl Long can’t make his Ultima IV, his favorite game from his formative days. So he works on artificial intelligence and cloud computing to...