Pixar veteran creates AI tool for automating 2D animations
Artificial intelligence is going to change just about everything — like animating video games, for example. Animation-technology startup Midas Touch Interactive has a new...
7 takeaways from Mary Meeker’s 2017 Internet Trends report
Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends report has become an annual ritual for Silicon Valley. It’s as if the tech industry had an annual physical exam...
Vietnamese gaming and messaging firm VNG plans U.S. IPO
(Reuters) — Vietnamese online gaming and messaging firm VNG Corp said on Tuesday it has signed a preliminary agreement with U.S. bourse operator Nasdaq...
How video games help improve real-world AI
For decades, video games have been criticized for purportedly wasting time, stifling creativity, and even influencing violent behaviors. Now, it seems that video games...
How Improbable convinced SoftBank to invest $502 million in its platform for massive online game worlds
London-based technology firm Improbable has had a very improbable week. The company raised a whopping $502 million from Japan’s SoftBank for its SpatialOS platform for...
Facebook will live stream ESL video game tournaments
Facebook wants its millions of users to watch the high-stakes world of competitive video gaming. The social networking giant said Thursday that it has...
Google updates Firebase with performance monitoring and phone authentication, starts open-sourcing SDKs
At Google’s I/O 2017 developer conference today, the company announced new features for Firebase, its service for helping developers build apps for Android, iOS,...
Rob Reid and Adam Gazzaley on putting the science in sci-fi
Two of our speakers at GamesBeat Summit 2017 really embodied the confluence of tech, science fiction, and games. Rob Reid, founder of Listen.com and author of...
A VC and sci-fi author ask: Are we living in science fiction?
AI is the new bogeyman. That’s one of the observations we got from a fireside chat between venture capitalist Tim Chang and science fiction novelist...
This Halo fan made his own Cortana hologram
This year at Microsoft’s developer conference Build in Seattle, mixed reality, Skype video bots, and the Cortana Skills Kit all made headlines, but the...