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ELO, a new community building studio led by esports and gaming veterans Roald van Buuren and Wouter Sleijffers, has officially launched. Read More

Burgschneider, a German live events company, has run way past its goals on Kickstarter to hold The Brandywine Festival. Read More

Mystic Moose today announced the launch of MovieFlo.AI, an AI-powered storytelling and movie-making app for users and creators. Read More

Peer launched Global Simulation, a real-time digital Earth where players use avatars to connect by location and build relationships in a living, spatial network. Read More

ESL FaceIt Group, the esports company owned by Savvy Games Group, said the Intel Extreme Masters (IEM) esports tournament will move from Katowice to Kraków, Poland. Read More

Agentic AI played a decisive role in dismantling DanaBot, a Russian malware platform responsible for more than 50 million dollars in damages. Read More

S3 decouples RAG search from generation, boosting efficiency and generalization for enterprise LLM applications with minimal data. Read More

Mistral's Codestral Embed will help make RAG use cases faster and find duplicate code segments using natural language. Read More

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tiptoed into politics with a comment taking a shot at the U.S. policy that has cut off sales of his chips to China. Read More

Nvidia, the AI and graphics chip company driving societal changes with AI, reported revenue for the first quarter was up 69%. Read More

Electronic Arts confirmed that it has canceled its planned Black Panther game and closed the game studio making it, Cliffhanger Games. Cliffhanger Games opened in 2023 to make the Black Panther game as part of EA’s deal with Marvel for multiple games. EA is still working on an Iron Man title. A spokesperson said an IGN report on the closing i… Read More

New research from Meta reveals AI models achieve 34.5% better accuracy with shorter reasoning chains, challenging industry assumptions and potentially reducing computing costs by 40%. Read More

Diversion has raised $4.5 million in its latest funding round, led by Konvoy, bringing its total fundraise up to $12 million. Read More

In honor of World Hunger Day, game developer and publisher ZiMad is collaborating with the international nonprofit organization The Hunger Project to help fight hunger. ZiMad is launching a special “Small Actions. Big Change” campaign across two of its flagship games — Magic Jigsaw Puzzles and Domino. During the event, players will be a… Read More

Rumi, an AI media company, has raised $4.7 million in a pre-seed funding round to transform passive media with rewards. Read More

Akool Live Camera uses AI to capture human movement and mimic that movement with a generated virtual avatar in real time. Read More

Google is looking to compete in vibe coding with Stitch, which designs user interfaces (UIs) with one prompt.  Read More

Matthew Bromberg recently hit his one-year anniversary as Unity's CEO. And in that time, he's already overseen a lot of change at the popular game-engine maker. Read More

For professionals like the Lead AI Engineer or Senior AI Engineer, the Mistral Agents API represents a powerful addition to their AI toolkit. Read More

IOI Partners and Build a Rocket Boy dropped a new trailer on MindsEye, a new title coming on June 10 from the co-creator of Grand Theft Auto V. Read More

Industry analysts explain how Salesforce's $8 billion Informatica acquisition will transform enterprise data management and accelerate agentic AI adoption . Read More

Griffin Gaming Partners is the lead investor in Amplitude Studio's Series A funding round, which will go towards funding its new projects. Read More

Atlantis Studio has come out of stealth as a privately funded game development studio based in the south of France. Read More

Soneium, a blockchain started by Sony and Startale Group, announced the launch of Sleepagotchi Lite on the Line Mini app. Read More

Mawari, which delivers real-time AI-driven immersive 3D experiences, has launched vTubeXR, an extended reality (XR) fan engagement platform. Read More

We are beginning a cognitive migration: Away from what AI now does well, and toward a redefinition of what humans are now made for. Read More

Acurast has raised $5.4 million to use smartphones to power a global decentralized cloud computing network. Read More

Google doubles down on its ‘world-model’ vision, racing to build an AI operating layer to drive a universal personal assistant with Gemini. Even as Microsoft moves to capture the enterprise UI. Here's what's at stake. Read More

Successful AI agents require enterprises to orchestrate interactions, manage shared knowledge and plan for failure. Read More

A24 and Bandai Namco have named Alex Garland as the director and writer of the live-action Elden Ring adaptation. Read More

Operator remains a research preview and is accessible only to ChatGPT Pro users. The Responses API version will continue to use GPT-4o. Read More

Microsoft's NLWeb protocol transforms websites into AI-powered apps with conversational interfaces. Read More

Enterprises looking to build with AI should find plenty to look forward to with the announcements from Microsoft, Google & Anthropic this week. Read More

Omeda Studios announced a full competitive summer calendar for their free-to-play third-person action MOBA Predecessor. Read More

StreamElements' latest report shows that Call of Duty: Warzone got a viewership spike thanks to the re-launch of Verdansk. Read More

Video game adaptations continue to make a big splash in Hollywood. Read More

Savvy Games Group has made a lot of news as it has built the newest financial empire in games with acquisitions of companies. Read More

Google's "sufficient context" helps refine RAG systems, reduce LLM hallucinations, and boost AI reliability for business applications. Read More

PlaySafe ID -- a platform for gamers that keeps cheaters, hackers, bots, and predators out of games -- has raised $1.12 million in funding. Read More

Yield Guild Games Association announced that it has expanded into Web3 game publishing with the launch of the causal Degen game LOL Land. Read More

A new benchmark can test how much LLMs become sycophants, and found that GPT-4o was the most sycophantic of the models tested. Read More

Virtuos rebuild of Oblivion Remastered topped April's sales charts, with Microsoft's PlayStation launches also charting well. Read More

Bowman later edited his tweet and the following one in a thread to read as follows, but it still didn't convince the naysayers. Read More

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 outperforms OpenAI's GPT-4.1 with unprecedented seven-hour autonomous coding sessions and record-breaking 72.5% SWE-bench score, transforming AI from quick-response tool to day-long collaborator. Read More

Wildlife Studios and Winners Alliance today announced a major licensing partnership, bringing Naomi Osaka and other stars to the hit mobile game Tennis Clash. Tennis Clash has been played by more than 170 million users worldwide. Through the agreement, Wildlife Studios now holds rights to feature the names, images, and likenesses of select men’s an… Read More

Someone also appears to have published a full scrape of the Time article online on the news aggregator app Newsbreak. Read More

AppOnBoard is unveiling Quvy, a tool that enables AI to test user acquisition schemes on simulated audiences to speed up a game's growth. Read More

In its bid to become a fourth game console in the home, Nex Playground is getting How to Train Your Dragon: Riders of the Skies. Read More

Enchant is launching a new zero-equity accelerator for gaming and AI startups, with applications now open for its three-month program. Read More

Logitech G announced the launch of the Logitech G522 gaming headset, a new headset with a focus on gameplay and personal expression. Read More

Netmarble announced the launch of action-adventure RPG title Game of Thrones: Kingsroad on mobile and PC platforms. Read More

Crunchyroll, the global brand for anime, and Discord are teaming up to bring the beloved series My Hero Academia to the Discord platform. Read More

Google co-founder Sergey Brin makes surprise appearance at Google I/O, declaring "Gemini will be the very first AGI," revealing philosophical tensions with DeepMind CEO Hassabis who urges scientific caution in the high-stakes AI race. Read More

Mistplay has launched its reward-based user acquisition platform for mobile gamers on the iPhone in the U.S. Read More

Support for remote Model Context Protocol servers, integration of image generation and Code Interpreter tools, and upgrades to file search... Read More

Voya Games raised $5 million in funding to support the growth of Craft World, a casual Web3 game. Read More

Indian independent game developer UnderDogs Studio revealed the gameplay for its upcoming PS5 and PC game, Mukti with a new gameplay trailer. Read More

Astar Network, a gateway to take blockchain projects to Japan and more, announced a strategic investment from Animoca Brands. Read More