NetEase invests in Detroit: Become Human game studio Quantic Dream
Chinese internet company NetEase Games has acquired a minority stake in Quantic Dream, the French game studio that created blockbuster games such as Detroit:...
Digi-Capital: Game investment doubles previous record at $5.7 billion in 2018
Investments in game companies hit a record $5.7 billion in 2018, or more than twice the previous record set in 2017, according to advisory...
Final Fantasy VII HD graphics mod makes backgrounds less blurry with machine learning
Tired of waiting for that Final Fantasy VII remake? Well, this new mod won’t make the original game look like a modern triple-A title,...
Nvidia stock falls $14 billion on crypto-related earnings preannouncement
Nvidia warned last November that the aftermath of the cryptocurrency bust would hurt its earnings, but now the company says weaker gaming and data center...
Metro Exodus will skip Steam for Epic Games Store
Epic Games and Deep Silver announced today that Metro Exodus will only be sold digitally for PC on the Epic Games Store. Valve has...
Unity and Google Cloud Platform launch challenge to push limits of game AI
Unity Technologies has teamed up with Google Cloud Platform to create the Obstacle Tower Challenge, which will test the limits of artificial intelligence in...
Life Is Strange 2 Episode 2 impressions — The lull before the storm
Life Is Strange 2 Episode 1 did a stellar job showing the bond between two brothers with enough supernatural drama injected into the suburban...
Rami Ismail’s GameDev.World will be a global game dev event translated into 8 languages
Rami Ismail, cofounder of Nuclear Throne maker Vlambeer, became frustrated trying to get visas approved for developers to come to the U.S. for his...
DeepMind’s AlphaStar AI sweeps StarCraft II pros in head-to-head match
Computers are getting more sophisticated than ever at understanding and playing complicated games. DeepMind, one of the leaders in artificial intelligence, proved that once...
GDC survey: Half of game developers support unionization, believe Steam is too greedy
A survey of game developers shows that nearly half of game developers support game industry unionization, a majority believe that Steam no longer justifies...