Ubisoft has unveiled Neo NPCs, its first player-facing generative AI powered characters, at Game Developers Conference. The prototype allows players to interact with NPCs with distinct personalities and memories that allows conversations to drive gameplay. These Neo NPCs are enhanced with new neural functions allowing them to respond to players with unscripted dialogue, contextual awareness and…
Paris Hilton’s 11:11 Media publishes case study on branded gaming experience on Roblox
March 19, 2024
Paris Hilton took a deep dive into the metaverse with her Slivingland experience on Roblox, and her 11:11 Media company has released the results of brand interactions.
Roblox’s platform of user-generated content reaches more than 216 million monthly active users and it…
Epic Games has announced it is updating its prices for non-game Unreal Engine projects.
The pricing update applies to only those who are not making games. Now, Epic Games is providing pricing options for non-game users of the Unreal Engine, Twinmotion, and…
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…
