Roblox unveiled two novel AI technologies aimed at revolutionizing 3D content creation on its platform for user-generated content.
At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, the company showed off the Avatar Auto Setup and Texture Generator, which promise to significantly accelerate the process of building avatars and texturing objects, promising a new era of efficiency for creators…
Despite a shorter month, Twitch viewership in February held strong according to StreamElements’ latest State of the Stream report. Fans watched 1.738 billion hours last month, down 8.6% from January’s 1.902 billion total per Rainmaker.gg’s data. While this is a…
Sega and Rovio have announced a crossover event across five mobile games featuring the companies’ most iconic franchises: Sonic the Hedgehog and Angry Birds. Until March 21, 2024, players can explore unique challenges and rewards in Angry Birds 2, Angry Birds Dream Blast…
We’re delighted to note that we will have another Women in Gaming Breakfast at GamesBeat Summit 2024, our annual game conference which takes place on May 20 to May 21 in Los Angeles.
The event at the Marina del Rey Marriott will focus on the theme of resilience and adaptation, zeroing in on the relevant real-world issues facing the game industry.
The Women In Gaming Breakfast will happen on the…
The legendary online game MapleStory is coming to the Avalanche blockchain in the form of a Web3-enhanced extension of the franchise.
MapleStory, a core intellectual property of Nexon Group, is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) that has been played…
Skillz has sued a second gaming company — Papaya Gaming — for using bots in skill-based games that are supposed to be between humans.
The lawsuit filed in federal court in New York comes after Skillz won a $42.9 million judgment in a patent-infringement lawsuit against…
Heather Cerlan, a senior artist who has worked on a dozen triple-A games, is leading a team of nine ex-Bethesda Game Studios developers working on a new game.
The team making a multiplayer/co-op RPG simulation game under a mysterious new studio whose name isn’t disclosed yet. The Maryland-focused team (operating remotely) is pitching to raise money now, said Cerlan, in an interview during the…
Marty O’Donnell, the creator of the music for Bungie games like Halo and Destiny, announced he is running for a seat in Congress in Nevada.
O’Donnell lives in Lone Mountain, a neighborhood in Las Vegas, and he will run against incumbent Democrat Susie Lee in November in…
Epic Games ‘hackers’ admit threat of leak was phony
March 5, 2024
An alleged hack of Epic Games was revealed, by the “hackers” in question, to be fake. Last week, a ransomware group claimed to have made off with 200GB of unspecified data from Epic Games, with the presumption being that it planned to extort money from the company.
Yuzu, the popular Nintendo Switch emulator, shut down today, days after Nintendo filed a lawsuit against the developers.
At the same time, Yuzu’s parent company Tropic Haze and Nintendo filed a joint motion to settle the lawsuit, with Yuzu paying Nintendo $2.4 million. They’ll also destroy all copies of Yuzu — as well as 3DS emulator Citra — and give Nintendo control of their Yuzu URL…
