Amazon’s Skill Flow Builder simplifies story-based game development for Alexa
Game developers with a penchant for voice apps, good news: Amazon today unveiled Skill Flow Builder, a tool that enables creators to build story-based...
Microsoft reports $33.7 billion in Q4 2019 revenue: Azure up 64%, Surface up 14%, and LinkedIn up 25%
Microsoft today reported earnings for its fourth fiscal quarter of 2019, including revenue of $33.7 billion, net income of $13.2 billion, and earnings per...
How video game engines help create smarter AI
Video game developers have longed used artificial intelligence to help create believable worlds. So it’s not too surprising that researchers can now use some...
Facebook’s AI beats human poker champions
Facebook AI Research and Carnegie Mellon University today detailed the creation of Pluribus, a poker-playing AI that Facebook claims is the first to beat...
Spiketrap: Cyberpunk 2077 was the fan favorite game of E3 2019
Measurement firm Spiketrap scoured the internet and found that Cypberpunk 2077 was the overwhelming favorite among fans during the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the...
Twitter: Here’s who won the attention war at E3 2019
The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) drew more than 66,000 people to the Los Angeles Convention Center last week. But the real battle for attention...
Newzoo: U.S. will overtake China as No. 1 gaming market in 2019
For the first time since 2015, the United States is the top gaming market in the world. So says market research research firm Newzoo...
This Dota 2 AI predicts player death within a 5-second window
If there’s one insight that might be gleaned from continuing AI research, it’s that many events once assumed unknowable are, in fact, predictable with...
Everything Ubisoft showed at E3 2019
French publisher and developer Ubisoft revealed a ton of new information about its games and services at the 2019 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) trade...
Bethesda shows off Orion game streaming tech for the cloud
Bethesda showed off its new game streaming technology for the cloud, dubbed Orion. The company said it can stream games with up to 40%...