Kabam vet leads Deca Games’ charge into live operations for old games
Germany’s Deca Games is coming out of stealth to offer live operations (such as tournaments) that can breathe life into older mobile and PC...
GTA creator shows off new cloud gaming engine with a VR sci-fi demo (update)
Cloudgine has created a demo called They Came From Space to show off the quality of its cloud-gaming engine, which it designed to take advantage of...
Discord shuts down Nazi accounts following Charlottesville violence
Gamer voice and chat app Discord today announced it has shut down a server for altright.com, another associated with The Daily Stormer, and removed...
Nvidia CEO talks cryptocurrency, AI, and the leisure economy
Nvidia turned out another stellar financial result for the second quarter ended July 31. Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of the world’s biggest stand-alone maker of...
OpenAI’s bot beats top Dota 2 player so badly that he quits
An artificial intelligence has beaten one of the world’s top Dota 2 players in single combat today. Danil Ishutin, better known by his gaming...
ProBeat: I can’t wait to watch TV on Facebook
Facebook this week announced Watch, a new tab dedicated to watching (oh, my, how clever) shows on the social network. This isn’t the first...
Hands-on with Twitch’s answer to Discord
Twitch has released the full version of its desktop app as it aims to connect every moment of your gaming life. The app, which...
Nvidia earnings: Self-driving cars, AI, games, Nintendo Switch drive big quarter
Nvidia keeps on raking in revenue from chips for artificial intelligence, game graphics, the Nintendo Switch game console, and self-driving cars. But we’ll have...
StarCraft II is now a laboratory for AI research
Blizzard’s partnership with DeepMind, a firm that specializes in machine learning, has culminated in the release of the StarCraft II API, which is available...
Has Facebook become the game developer’s best friend?
Gaming is better with friends. And gaming is important at Facebook. Those are the takeaways that Brian Boland, vice president of publisher solutions at...