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Team Liquid partners with Zenni Optical on eye health and gamer performance

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Global esports company Team Liquid announced a new partnership with Zenni Optical, naming the leading online retailer as its official eyewear partner. Read More

Root raises $9M to launch its social platform with customizable apps

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Root announced today it has raised $9 million to help build its social platform featuring customizable apps for growing communities. Read More

Maestro Media hits Kickstarter goal for Clash of Clash tabletop game in 30 minutes (updated)

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Maestro Media is launching a Kickstarter for Clash of Clans: The Epic Raid, a new tabletop game based on Supercell's top-selling mobile game. Read More

Amazon Prime Day will take place July 8 to July 11, with six bonus PC games via Prime Gaming

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Amazon said Prime Day 2025 will take place from July 8 through July 11, and gamers will be able to get six free PC games via Prime Gaming. Read More

43% of games skipped GPU upgrade to pay rent instead | Liquid Web

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About 43% of gamers skipped a graphics processing unit (GPU) upgrade just to pay rent, according to a new report by Liquid Web. Read More

Bigger Games raises $25M to grow its mobile gaming business

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Turkish studio Bigger Games has raised $25 million in funding to scale its mobile games business, starting with Kitchen Masters. Read More

Stray Kite Studios poised for Wartorn early access release on June 17

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Stray Kite Studios is launching its Wartorn game into early access on Steam and the Epic Games Store tomorrow on June 17. Read More

RP1 says that metaverse needs its own browser

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RP1 CEO Sean Mann believes that the world needs a metaverse browser, much like the world needed a web browser for the internet. Read More

How Mixtape reminds us that your mixtapes were your life | Johnny Galvatron interview

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Mixtape takes us back to the days when our music defined us. Read More

Trying out Nvidia’s RTX 50 Series GPU on a Falcon Northwest gaming PC | review

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I tried out the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 graphics processing unit (GPU) on a Falcon Northwest Tiki gaming PC. It's awesome. Read More

Do reasoning AI models really ‘think’ or not? Apple research sparks lively debate, response

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Ultimately, the big takeaway for ML researchers is that before proclaiming an AI milestone—or obituary—make sure the test itself isn’t flawed Read More

Beyond GPT architecture: Why Google’s Diffusion approach could reshape LLM deployment

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Gemini Diffusion is also useful for tasks such as refactoring code, adding new features to applications, or converting an existing codebase to a different language.  Read More

The case for embedding audit trails in AI systems before scaling

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With more AI applications and agents going into production, enterprises need robust and auditable AI pipelines more than ever. Read More

Wizards of the Coast and Giant Skull: ‘Gamers are telling us what they have always told us’ | The DeanBeat

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I talked to Wizards of the Coast, a Hasbro division, and Giant Skull about their upcoming Dungeons & Dragons game. Read More

Senator’s RISE Act would require AI developers to list training data, evaluation methods in exchange for ‘safe harbor’ from lawsuits

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The developer must also publish known failure modes, keep all documentation current, and push updates within 30 days of a version change. Read More

The latest state of the game jobs market | Amir Satvat

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Amir Satvat said in a LinkedIn post that hiring remains concentrated among professionals with five to 15 years of experience. Read More

Gamefam brings FIFA Club World Cup 2025 to Roblox

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Gamefam and FIFA are bringing the World Cup to Roblox via Super League Soccer from June 14 through July 13. Read More

Red team AI now to build safer, smarter models tomorrow

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AI models are under attack. Traditional defenses are failing. Discover why red teaming is crucial for thwarting adversarial threats. Read More

SAG-AFTRA board approves agreement with game companies on AI and new contract

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The SAG-AFTRA National Board approved the tentative agreement with the video game bargaining group, setting up a membership vote. Read More

Meta’s new world model lets robots manipulate objects in environments they’ve never encountered before

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A robot powered by V-JEPA 2 can be deployed in a new environment and successfully manipulate objects it has never encountered before. Read More

Cloud collapse: Replit and LlamaIndex knocked offline by Google Cloud identity outage

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Many AI developers started their morning amid a Google Cloud outage affecting many of the tools they use to build products. Read More

AMD debuts AMD Instinct MI350 Series accelerator chips with 35X better inferencing

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AMD announced its new AMD Instinct MI350 Series accelerators, which are four times faster on AI compute and 35 times faster on inferencing. Read More

TensorWave deploys AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs in its cloud platform

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TensorWave, a leader in AMD-powered AI infrastructure solutions, today announced the deployment of AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs in its high-performance cloud platform. Read More

Disney Pinnacle unveils Genesis Keys quest with Web3 support from Dapper Labs

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Disney Pinnacle by Dapper Labs, the digital pin collecting and trading platform, has now announced its Genesis Keys quest. Read More

Lil Snack makes a snackable Scattergories game in partnership with Hasbro

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When we last talked with Lil Snack, they were a two-person company making little games that were like snacks. Now they have over 10M plays. Read More

Out of Words is an emotional co-op adventure illustrated with beautiful stop-motion animation

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The two characters of Out of Words are young teens who are falling in love. But then disaster strikes as they lose their mouths. Read More

Google DeepMind just changed hurricane forecasting forever with new AI model

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Google DeepMind launches Weather Lab platform for AI hurricane forecasting, showing improved accuracy in early tests with U.S. National Hurricane Center partnership. Read More

Towa and the Guardians of the Sacred Tree | hands-on preview

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Bandai Namco showed off a rogue-lite game from develper Brownie: Towa and the Guardians of the Sacred Tree. Read More

Maestro Media launches Kickstarter for Clash of Clans: The Epic Raid tabletop game

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Maestro Media is launching a Kickstarter for Clash of Clans: The Epic Raid, a new tabletop game based on Supercell's top-selling mobile game. Read More

Samsung Ads expands its GameBreaks with 4 new titles

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Samsung Ads, the advanced advertising arm of Samsung Electronics, today announced a major expansion of its award-winning GameBreaks portfolio. Read More

How brands can pursue the $11B in-game ad opportunity | Orange 142

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In-game advertising is an $11 billion market, and Orange 142 has released a guide to help marketers unlock the opportunity. Orange 142 released a new best practices guide focused on in-game advertising. The guide is designed to help marketers unlock the full potential of gaming as a marketing channel, connecting with audiences in immersive env… Read More

Anzu advances in-game ad offerings with Amex Ventures investment

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Anzu announced it has received an investment of an undisclosed amount from Amex Ventures to support its in-game advertising solutions. Read More

Mythical Games launches FIFA Rivals worldwide touting digital ownership

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FIFA Rivals, the officially licensed arcade-style mobile soccer game, is now available for download on the App Store and Google Play Read More

Daiko will launch blockchain-based virtual pets game

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Daiko said it plans to launch its blockchain-based Virtual Pet game to bring real-world dog care into gaming. Read More

Embracer CEO Lars Wingefors will step down as CEO; deputy Phil Rogers will take his place

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Embracer CEO Lars Wingefors is stepping down as CEO while his deputy CEO Phil Rogers will take over the top job in August. Read More

Nintendo sells 3.5M Switch 2 consoles in four days

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Nintendo of America announced that the Nintendo Switch 2 has sold over 3.5 million units worldwide in its first four days Read More

Unreal Editor for Fortnite’s AI character creation tool has ambitions beyond Darth Vader

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Epic Games took a big step with conversational AI when it added a new version of Darth Vader in Fortnite that could speak with players. Read More

Microsoft-backed Mistral launches European AI cloud to compete with AWS and Azure

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Mistral AI partners with Nvidia to launch European AI infrastructure platform, challenging US cloud giants while unveiling breakthrough reasoning models that rival OpenAI. Read More

Databricks open-sources declarative ETL framework powering 90% faster pipeline builds

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With Apache Spark Declarative Pipelines, engineers describe what their pipeline should do using SQL or Python, and Apache Spark handles the execution. Read More

Meow Wolf and Niantic Spatial explore expansion of multimedia art with AR

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Meow Wolf, known for its story worlds and immersive multimedia art, has partnered with Niantic Spatial to explore multimedia art with AR. Read More

‘Generative AI helps us bend time’: CrowdStrike, Nvidia embed real-time LLM defense, changing how enterprises secure AI

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Falcon is now built into Nvidia’s LLMs, delivering native runtime threat defense and eliminating blind spots across AI pipelines. Read More

Playhouse MD reimagines pediatric healthcare with play

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The two sisters running Playhouse MD are reimagining children's healthcare through the transformative power of play. Read More

Resident Evil Requiem features terror in first and third-person views

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Resident Evil Requiem was a big highlight from Summer Game Fest's onslaught of announcements and trailers. Read More

Why most enterprise AI agents never reach production and how Databricks plans to fix it

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Databricks Agent Bricks automates enterprise AI agent optimization and evaluation, eliminating manual processes that block production deployments. Read More

Unity launches new Audience Hub for privacy-first ad campaigns

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Unity announced the launch of the Unity Audience Hub for advertisers, which offers targeting with a focus on data privacy. Read More

Riot Games partners with T/Squared on EMEA esports

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Riot Games enters a strategic, regional partnership with marketing agency T/Squared to support its EMEA esports. Read More

Logitech unveils Flip Folio case and keyboard for iPad Pro and iPad Air

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Logitech announced the Flip Folio, a protective case with a magnetically-storable keyboard for iPad Pro and iPad Air. Read More

Gaming VC activity settles into a new normal in Q1 | Pitchbook

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In Q1, gaming VC activity may have finally settled into a new normal — though it's a leaner, more selective market, PitchBook said. Read More

AlphaSense launches its own Deep Research for the web AND your enterprise files — here’s why it matters

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Every report generated by Deep Research includes clickable citations to underlying content, enabling both verification and deeper follow-up. Read More

The Apple Games app on Mac, iPad and iPhone: A deep dive into its discovery potential

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Apple introduced the Apple Games app yesterday and its significance is starting to become clear as more details come in. Read More

OpenAI launches o3-pro AI model, offering increased reliability and tool use for enterprises — while sacrificing speed

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OpenAI released the latest in its o-series of reasoning model that promises more reliable and accurate responses for enterprises. Read More

Qualcomm shares its vision for the future of smart glasses with on-glass Gen AI

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Qualcomm has enabled what one of its executives said was a strange and "most interesting" conversations with generative AI-powered smart glasses. Read More

Vanta’s AI agent wants to run your compliance program — and it just might

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Vanta launches autonomous AI agent that automates security compliance workflows, helping enterprises save 12+ hours weekly on policy management and audit preparation. Read More

Netmarble’s new RPG is The Seven Deadly Sins: Origins

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Netmarble revealed its latest RPG adaptation of a popular IP, The Seven Deadly: Origins, for PC, consoles and mobile. Read More

Quarter Up is Skybound’s new internal studio working on Invincible VS

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Quarter Up is a new internal studio at Skybound, which is working on Invincible VS, its new fighting game launching in 2026. Read More

Apple makes major AI advance with image generation technology rivaling DALL-E and Midjourney

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Apple researchers develop STARFlow, a breakthrough AI image generation system that challenges diffusion models used by DALL-E and Midjourney with competitive performance. Read More

Apple VisionOS 26 lets you play spatial games with PSVR2 hand controllers

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Apple announced updates to the VisionOS 26, the operating software for the Apple Vision Pro mixed reality headset. It will let you play spatial games on the Apple Vision Pro mixed reality headset using Sony PSVR 2 Sense hand controllers. That should be a big boost for games on Apple’s spatial headset. You’ll have access to features like… Read More