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Roblox, the platform for Lego-like user-generated games, went public today in a direct listing, where employees and investors finally get a chance to sell shares on the market. The initial price was far higher than the reference price of $45 a share, as the first trade was about $64.50 a share, giving the…
Xbox boss Phil Spencer ripped off the bandage this morning. In an Xbox Wire blog post, Spencer confirmed that Xbox’s acquisition of publisher Bethesda will result in some games that are exclusive to Xbox and PC. And he once again reiterated that Xbox Game Pass is the focus…
With the Bethesda purchase now legally approved, Microsoft has posted an “official welcome” to its newest acquisition from Xbox boss Phil Spencer. This notes that more Bethesda games will be coming to Game Pass later this week. It also mentions Xbox’s philosophy about…
Regulators in the United States and Europe approved Microsoft’s acquisition of Zenimax Media, and that means Bethesda is now an Xbox studio. But what does that mean for the companies involved and for fans of games like Fallout and The Elder Scrolls? Well, Microsoft is going to start answering those questions with a video presentation on Thursday, March 11, according to sources familiar with the…
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Zynga has pledged $100,000 from its Social Impact Fund to support Girls Who Code on International Women’s Day 2021.
The Women at Zynga group pledge will enable Girls Who Code to…
Two years after it put some money into Epic Games in 2018, Smash Ventures finally came out of hiding with its $75 million fund for media, entertainment, and games.
Smash Ventures was founded by Eric Garland and Evan Richter. Garland formerly led venture investments for…
The Super Nintendo Switch rumors are back thanks to a new report from Bloomberg. You can read what reviews editor Mike Minotti thinks the system needs right here. The Bloomberg story claims that Nintendo is sourcing new OLED 7-inch 720p screens from Samsung for the upgraded device. And then the system will target 4K in docked mode.
This joins a long lineage of rumors related to a Switch refresh…
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After a relatively quiet January, video game brands upped their TV ad budgets in February by 34%, to a total of $16.6 million. Not only did Nintendo account for 81.3% of that outlay…
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Roblox, the platform for user-generated games, will go public through a direct listing of its shares on March 10. I see its pending success or failure as a stock as a kind of…
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In 2018, Uber AI Labs introduced Go-Explore, a family of algorithms that beat the Atari game Montezuma’s Revenge, a commonly accepted reinforcement learning challenge. Last year, Go-Explore was used to beat text-based games.
Now researchers from OpenAI and Uber AI Labs say Go-Explore has solved all…
