Stadia’s Outcasters looks like a next-generation .io-style shooter
Developer Splash Damage revealed Outcasters today as part of Google’s Stadia Connect video event. Outcasters is an online multiplayer battler with a twist —...
Ubisoft partners with Parsec to make remote demos possible
Summer is usually a time for video game companies to demo their upcoming projects for the press, influencers, and other folks. The pandemic has...
VENN unveils 20 hours of weekly video game programming for broadcast TV
VENN, or the Video Game Entertainment and News Network, is announcing it will create 20 hours of weekly video game programming for broadcast television...
Google launches Android 11 Beta 2 with final APIs and behaviors
Google today launched Android 11 Beta 2, or the sixth preview of its next mobile OS version. Beta 2 marks Android 11’s Platform Stability...
Genies creates an investment arm for companies using its digital avatars
Genies has built technology for creating expressive digital avatars for everyone from rockstars who want to give online concerts to influencers who can’t go...
PlayStation pulls ads from Facebook and Instagram for boycott
Facebook and Instagram users won’t see any official PlayStation content in their feeds this July. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) revealed it is halting all...
Facebook advances VR rendering quality with neural 4×4 supersampling
Rendering 3D graphics for the latest high-resolution displays has never been an easy task, and the challenge level increases multiple times for VR headsets...
Voicemod raises $8 million for silly or serious voice filters in games
Voicemod has raised $8 million to expand its business of offering voice filters. People use these filters to change their voices in video games...
Spiketrap raises $3 million for AI-based social media intelligence platform
Spiketrap has raised $3 million for its AI platform that helps brands understand how they are engaging with consumers on social media. The San...
Researchers combine reinforcement learning and NLP to escape a Grue monster
AI researchers from Georgia Tech and Microsoft Research created AI that combines reinforcement learning and natural language processing (NLP) to outperform state-of-the-art question-answering AI...