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Stadia ‘dev node’ teardown shows off the hardware Google sent to developers [Updated]

December 9, 2022
Google Stadia is set to shut down for good just a month from now, but a developer kit has now surfaced showing off what was used to get games ready for the now-defunct cloud gaming platform. Gamers Nexus on YouTube obtained a Stadia “Dev Node” which is what Google called the hardware developer kit used for creating games on Stadia. The machine was sent to game studios to prepare games for…
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Chrome 108 for Android, Mac, Windows enables passkey support

December 9, 2022
Google started rolling out passkey support in October, and availability has now entered Chrome’s stable channel with version 108.  You can use passkeys to sign into sites and apps that support them. Signing in with a passkey will require you to authenticate yourself in…
AI & RoboticsNews

Kinetix combines AI and 3D animation to automate user-generated emotes for games

December 9, 2022
Connect with gaming and metaverse leaders online at GamesBeat Summit: Into the Metaverse 3 this February 1-2. Register here. Kinetix is combining 3D animation and AI to automate the process of creating user-generated emotes for video games and virtual worlds. The launch of Kinetix today signifies a way for users to express themselves better in gaming and the metaverse, the Paris-based company…
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GamingNews

FTC sues to block Microsoft's Activision Blizzard merger

December 9, 2022
The Federal Trade Commission has filed an antitrust complaint in a bid to block Microsoft’s planned $68.7 billion takeover of Activision Blizzard. The FTC started looking into the deal and its potential impact on the video game market soon after it was announced in…
MobileNews

EU officially says all new iPhones will need USB-C starting in December 2024

December 9, 2022
The EU legislation to mandate a common smartphone charger is now a done deal. After it looked like it would pass back in June, the Council of Ministers ratified the vote in October. Today the law has been officially signed and published with a December 2024 deadline for all new smartphones sold in Europe to use USB-C. We’ve known for some time that it would likely be 2024 before smartphone…
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GamingNews

Smash Bros esports in chaos: Nintendo quashes unaffiliated events

December 8, 2022
Connect with gaming and metaverse leaders online at GamesBeat Summit: Into the Metaverse 3 this February 1-2. Register here. Updated on 12/2 at 11am PT: The Smash World Tour (SWT), a grassroots Super Smash Bros. circuit organized by VGBootCamp, announced that Nintendo is shutting down its finale less than two weeks before the event. This has major implications for both the grassroots esports…
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