GamesBeat: Bill Roper on bringing computationally ridiculous games to life
Our latest speaker for GamesBeat Summit 2018 event is Bill Roper, CCO at Improbable. He’ll be talking about how the cloud is offering developers the opportunity...
The U.K. is bringing its best game to the Game Developers Conference
Presented by the U.K.’s Department for International Trade The U.K. is bringing its best game to GDC this year, which is really saying something....
Bossa Studios turns to AI for emergent stories within online games
Chet Faliszek left Valve last year after 12 years, with the last few spent evangelizing virtual reality via the company’s SteamVR platform. He took...
Why Greycroft’s Jon Goldman invests in games, esports, AR, and VR
Not many investors have the expertise to invest in the hit-or-miss video game business. But Jon Goldman has figured it out. He is a...
Digi-Capital: 2017 saw $3 billion invested in AR/VR, half in Q4 alone
AR/VR investment records fell last year as startups raised over $3 billion in 28 categories we track including over $1.5 billion in Q4 2017...
Automaton raises $10 million for survival game where 1,000 players fight in 12 square kilometers
Automaton is a new game studio in the United Kingdom, and it’s raised $10 million to make an online survival game built on simulation technology...
GamesBeat 2017 reveals five new speakers for The Time Machine theme
GamesBeat 2017 will take place at San Francisco’s beautiful Fort Mason on October 5 and October 6. And we’re delighted to announce our next...
Improbable hires game veteran Bill Roper as chief creative officer
Improbable, a British tech company that raised $502 million from SoftBank for its virtual-world simulation software, announced that former Disney game creator Bill Roper...
Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig will design the politics in online game Seed
Lawrence Lessig has spent his career studying constitutional law, and he has been helping new democracies to form the legal frameworks for governance. Now...
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...