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Epic Games’ Tim Sweeney on creating believable digital humans

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 21, 2018
11 min

Epic Games stunned everyone a couple of years ago with the realistic digital human character Senua, from the video game Hellblade. And today, the...

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Epic Games shows off amazing real-time digital human with Siren demo

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 21, 2018
3 min

Epic Games, CubicMotion, 3Lateral, Tencent, and Vicon took a big step toward creating believable digital humans today with the debut of Siren, a demo of...

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Epic Games demos the digital version of actor Andy Serkis

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 21, 2018
2 min

Epic Games and 3Lateral showed off a digital version of actor Andy Serkis, who starred in The Lord of the Rings and Planet of...

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Epic Games shows real-time ray tracing in Unreal Engine with Star Wars demo

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 21, 2018
2 min

At first, when I looked at the Star Wars scene featuring two First Order stormtroopers and Captain Phasma, I thought it was a film....

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Designing for VR accessibility means dialing down from, or sometimes up to, 11

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 21, 2018
3 min

For the past year, Lori Landay has worked on using virtual and augmented reality to help people on the autism spectrum tackle challenging experiences...

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Heroes of the Dorm fan that nails this year’s bracket could win $1 million

Posted byby Mike Minotti
March 21, 2018
1 min

Blizzard Entertainment’s annual Heroes of the Storm college tournament, Heroes of the Dorm, is now down to 64 teams. And if a fan can...

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What gaming stories can learn from the world of professional wrestling

Posted byby Mike Minotti
March 21, 2018
3 min

Video game story writers could learn something from professional wrestling. That’s what independent developer Luis De Leon of 2401 Studios argued at this year’s Game...

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GamesBeat Summit: KSV’s Kent Wakeford on the explosive growth of esports

Posted byby Giancarlo Valdes
March 21, 2018
4 min

The latest speaker to join our GamesBeat Summit 2018 event is Kent Wakeford, the cofounder and chief operating officer of KSV eSports International. Wakeford will chat...