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Otoy’s Jules Urbach believes the blockchain can produce a crowdsourced rendering engine

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
September 30, 2017
28 min

VB: As far as the bigger vision, once this is out there, once people are using it, where do you want to go? Where...

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Re:Legend farms the likes of Monster Rancher, Stardew Valley, and Malaysia for inspiration

Posted byby Jason Wilson
September 30, 2017
10 min

GamesBeat: Do you fish yourself? Is that something you and your brothers like to do? Gan: We love fish, and we love animals. I...

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VRTK helps devs get started in VR with open-source dev kit

Posted byby Jason Wilson
September 30, 2017
3 min

What’s becoming clear in VR development is that with the market split across Rift, Vive and PlayStation VR, the developers of some of the...

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Body Count Fighting brings UFC-style fight cards and grudges to esports

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
September 30, 2017
12 min

Esports events tend to emulate the setup of something like the FIFA World Cup. You might some group stages at the beginning before getting...

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TenGig wants to showcase Chattanooga’s tech with an esports festival

Posted byby GamesBeat
September 29, 2017
3 min

Esports is headed to Gig City. Chattanooga, Tennessee, has the fastest internet in the U.S., and the upcoming TenGig Festival intends to make the...

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Amazon launches update that overhauls its Lumberyard game-dev toolkit

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
September 29, 2017
2 min

Amazon is updating its Lumberyard tools for game developers. The engine is adding dozens of new features to improve animations, nonphotorealistic visuals, and more. Lumberyard...

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Tencent has not acquired a 5% stake in PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds studio Bluehole

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
September 29, 2017
2 min

Tencent has not invested in Bluehole Studio, the company that makes PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. News reports out of South Korea yesterday claimed that Tencent had...

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GamesBeat weekly roundup: Loving the SNES Classic Edition, and conquering our Cuphead demons

Posted byby Mike Minotti
September 29, 2017
3 min

Hello, and welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, the video game voice actors strike ended, Middle-earth: Shadow of War showed off its mobile...