Unity has another Obstacle Tower Challenge.
Unity has another Obstacle Tower Challenge.
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Unity unveils round 2 of Obstacle Tower Challenge for game devs

Unity Technologies has teamed up with Google Cloud Platform in January to create the Obstacle Tower Challenge, which is testing the limits of artificial intelligence in games.

In the first-of-its-kind contest, Google will offer a prize of cash, travel vouchers, and Google Cloud Platform credits, valued at more than $100,000. Now round two of the Obstacle Tower Challenge has begun.

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Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.