Epic Games shows off amazing digital human technology with Troll demo
Epic Games showed an amazing demo of Troll, built with Unreal Engine technology by the team at Goodbye Kansas, Deep Forest Films, and 3Lateral....
Quixel demonstrates animated scenes that look like landscape photos
Quixel created a cinematic short film Rebirth that looks like it was someone taking a video of a landscape with a video camera. Only...
Epic Games makes online services available for free to game devs
Epic Games learned a lot about creating online services with the launch of Fortnite, the enormously successful battle royale game with 250 million users....
Tim Sweeney announces $100 million Epic MegaGrants fund for game developers
Epic Games just completed giving out $5 million in grants to developers. And now it’s going to get started again with a $100 million...
Oculus Rift S will debut soon as $400 sequel to the PC-based Rift VR headset
Facebook has unveiled the Oculus Rift S, a new virtual reality headset for the PC that represents a major upgrade to its 2016 product,...
NPD: Anthem was BioWare’s second-best launch ever
Anthem was the top-selling game in the U.S. for February, according to industry-tracking firm The NPD Group. The multiplayer shooter also scored developer BioWare’s...
February 2019 NPD: Anthem and Jump Force top software sales
Consumer in the United States spent $1.05 billion on gaming-related products in February, according to industry-tracking firm The NPD Group. That’s up 4 percent...
Nintendo Switch outsold Xbox One and PS4 in February 2019
The current hardware generation is starting to show its age in terms of sales. That’s giving the younger Nintendo Switch an opportunity to snatch...
Google positions YouTube as Stadia’s killer app
Google has a gaming platform now. It’s called Stadia, and it streams blockbusters like Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey from the cloud to almost any device....
Google’s Stadia uses Style Transfer ML to manipulate video game environments
At a press conference today during the 2019 Game Developers Conference, Google took the wraps off of Stadia, its cloud-powered gaming service, and demoed...