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SEMO game development degree announced

Monday, April 28, 2025 by Richard Harris

Southeast Missouri State University (SEMO) is taking gaming to the next level with its new Bachelor of Science in game development, launching fall 2025. Designed for students passionate about joining the over $100 billion video game industry, this program blends technical expertise with creative storytelling, preparing graduates for careers at major studios like Sony, M...

Kong AI Gateway latest version released

Tuesday, April 8, 2025 by Richard Harris

Kong Inc. announced the launch of the latest version of Kong AI Gateway, which introduces new features to provide the AI security and governance guardrails needed to make GenAI and Agentic AI production-ready. New updates include automated Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines aimed at preventing Large Language Model (LLM) hallucinations and a Personally Identi...

Five takeaways from GDC 2025

Friday, April 4, 2025 by Austin Harris

Another year, another GDC is complete. This year's show could be summed up by an industry in transition that continues to deal with the fallout of mass layoffs in what has been a challenging market. There were no major announcements that were the talk of the town, but there were a few takeaways and trends to come out of the event. Five takeaways from GDC 2025: In...

gamescom latam 2025

Friday, March 14, 2025 by Richard Harris

At its launch cocktail party, gamescom latam 2025 announced several new features of the second Latin edition of the world's largest gaming event, which will be held from 1 to 4 May at Distrito Anhembi in Sao Paulo. The announcements included the involvement of Pokemon Go's Senior Director, Michael Steranka, additional insights into Niantic's virtual reali...

Brazil Games and ApexBrasil to participate in GDC 2025

Wednesday, March 12, 2025 by Richard Harris

The Brazil Games Export Program, a partnership between the Brazilian Game Companies Association (Abragames) and the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency (ApexBrasil), is excited to announce its participation as an official exhibitor at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2025, taking place from March 19 to March 21 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, Cal...

GDC reveals recipients of lifetime achievement and pioneer awards

Tuesday, March 11, 2025 by Austin Harris

Organizers of the 25th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards (GDCA) have revealed the recipients of two of the awards show’s most prestigious accolades, the honorees of the Lifetime Achievement and Pioneer Awards. This year, the Lifetime Achievement Award will be shared with the iconic video game writer and director Sam Lake, who’s known for his role...

IBM Quantum Developer Conference 2024

Tuesday, August 13, 2024 by Richard Harris

At the IBM Quantum Developer Conference 2024, participants will gain an exclusive, hands-on preview of cutting-edge tools and forthcoming roadmap updates from IBM Quantum, all organized around the theme - Performance by Qiskit. As the era of quantum utility progresses, it is essential to empower quantum researchers and developers to perform meaningful work on current...

Blizzard developers form union with WoW Game Makers Guild

Wednesday, July 31, 2024 by Austin Harris

Over 500 workers at the World of Warcraft development team have joined the Communications Workers of America and Microsoft subsidiary Blizzard Entertainment has recognized their union. The World of Warcraft Game Makers Guild - CWA Union (WoWGG-CWA), which includes designers, engineers, producers, artists, quality assurance testers, and other game developers, is the firs...

GDC 2024 conclusion

Wednesday, April 3, 2024 by Richard Harris

This year’s Game Developers Conference (GDC), the event serving professionals dedicated to the art and science of making games, has officially come to a close after hosting nearly 30,000 registered attendees for five full days of inspiring sessions and networking opportunities with peers and leaders in the games industry. GDC will be returning to the Moscone ...

Illuminate development tool from PubNub announced at GDC 2024

Monday, April 1, 2024 by Richard Harris

PubNub announced the launch of their newest product, PubNub Illuminate, at the 2024 Game Developers Conference. Illuminate gives product owners the ability to easily map the KPIs that are important to their game’s success, trigger decisions based on live game state, and see instant outcomes without requiring engineering resources. They can m...

GDCA and IGF 2024 finalists

Tuesday, January 30, 2024 by Richard Harris

Leading the nominations is Venba from Visai Games with four nominations, including Excellence in Audio, Narrative, Visual Art and the Seumas McNally Grand Prize. Venba is a narrative cooking game in which players experience life as an Indian mom who has immigrated to Canada with her family in the 1980s and weaves together conversations and food to tell her family’...

GDCA 2024 nominees and honorable mentions revealed

Friday, January 26, 2024 by Freeman Lightner

The finalists for the 24th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards, the peer-based video game event celebrating the industry’s top games and developers, have been revealed. The winners in all categories will be honored at the Game Developers Choice Awards (GDCA) ceremony, which takes place at the 2024 Game Developers Conference (GDC) on Wednesday, March 20, and is he...

Telepresence robot market accelerating

Monday, May 8, 2023 by Richard Harris

The global telepresence robot market is expected to reach a valuation of $1.6 billion U.S by the end of 2033, expanding at an exceptional CAGR of 17% during the assessment period (2023 to 2033). Rising demand for telepresence robots from the healthcare industry is expected to drive market growth opportunities over the next 10 years. A telepresence robot is a smartpho...

Civo Navigate Europe 2023 conference

Thursday, May 4, 2023 by Brittany Hainzinger

Civo has announced the launch of its Civo Navigate Europe 2023 conference, taking place on September 5th and 6th in London. It follows the success of Civo Navigate North America 2023, Civo’s first US conference, held in February 2023 in Tampa, Florida. Navigate Europe 2023 will be held in The Brewery. This truly unique event space combines historical charm with...

AI content generator from YAHAHA Studios steals the show at GDC

Friday, April 14, 2023 by Richard Harris

Game Developer Conference (GDC) 2023 saw YAHAHA taking over the convention from March 20th - 24th, drawing more than 2,700 participants to its in-booth speeches, over 5,000 people to its networking party, and supporting the creation of nearly 800 games during GDC. All games were created by attendees during YAHAHA's live events and supported by YAHAHA's code-free...

IGF Awards winners for 2023

Wednesday, March 29, 2023 by Brittany Hainzinger

Cosmo D Studios' Betrayal At Club Low won the Seumas McNally Grand Prize for Best Independent Game at the 25th annual Independent Games Festival (IGF) Awards tonight. The IGF Awards honors the most innovative and excellent independent games of the past year and took place as part of the 2023 Game Developers Conference (GDC) at the Moscone Convention Center...

Why SonarSource is growing so much

Thursday, December 22, 2022 by Freeman Lightner

SonarSource announced record growth in developer and enterprise customer adoption. With a 43% growth in its user base, SonarSource supports more than 400,000 organizations and seven million users. The Sonar solution leads the industry with total analyzed code, which now tops more than half a trillion lines of code for organizations across the world. By adding 5,000...

Gaming app availability going down

Thursday, June 2, 2022 by Richard Harris

Current data from BanklessTimes.com shows that the available game apps on Google Play went down by 32.96% in Q1 of 2022. The store shed over 220,000 mobile gaming apps from the 670,447 it had in Q4 2021. In November 2021, Google began filtering apps and games, removing those not targeting an API level within two years of the most recent Android version. Gaming app...

3D geolocation capabilities for Widow Games apps

Thursday, April 28, 2022 by Richard Harris

NextNav has partnered with Widow Games, a gaming development company closing the gap between the physical and the digital worlds. Through the partnership, Widow Games will bring NextNav's 3D geolocation capabilities to their applications, enabling more immersive virtual experiences tied to the real environments of users, and leveraging location verification to valid...

GDC 2022 highlights

Wednesday, April 6, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger

The 2022 Game Developers Conference (GDC), the event serving professionals dedicated to the art and science of making games, concluded its 36th edition, after a week of networking, learning, and inspiration. The conference was the largest in San Francisco in the past two years, with a total of 12,000 industry professionals attending at San Francisco's Moscone C...

Game Developers Conference 2022

Tuesday, March 22, 2022 by Richard Harris

The 2022 Game Developers Conference (GDC), the world’s longest-running event for professionals dedicated to the art and science of making games, begins its 36th edition today, in person at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco. The week-long conference, which also includes a virtual component, will feature more than 200 exhibitors, over 1,000 speakers, an...

GDC 2022 Supercell talks

Wednesday, February 9, 2022 by Richard Harris

The Game Developers Conference (GDC) has announced that Supercell will return to GDC 2022 with two talks surrounding its popular title Clash of Clans. The studio will give an in-depth look into the creation and expansion of the Clash Universe, along with its move into social gaming with Everdale. GDC 2022 Supercell talks about Expanding an IP: Case Study Cl...

Asia mobile gamers outweigh Europe and America combined

Tuesday, August 24, 2021 by Freeman Lightner

As the fastest-growing segment of the gaming industry, mobile games continue breaking records and making billions in revenue each year. The most significant part of mobile gaming profits comes from Asian countries, home to nearly half of all mobile gamers globally. There are nearly 1.3B Asia mobile gamers According to data presented by MejoresApuestas.com, the num...

Game Developers Choice Awards at GDC 2021

Monday, August 2, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger

Organizers of the 21st annual Game Developers Choice Awards (GDCA) have revealed the recipients of this year’s Pioneer Award and Lifetime Achievement Award. Tom Fulp, creator of Newgrounds and trailblazer of the Macromedia Flash games that helped define a generation of indie developers, will receive the Pioneer Award, while influential game designer with 28 years ...

Game development and Live Ops are evolving

Tuesday, December 8, 2020 by Richard Harris

We recently caught up with Carbonated and AWS Game Tech to discuss how Carbonated’s custom-built, live ops platform Carbyne enables game developers to bring fresh content to players in real-time, without engineering support or an office-based workforce. While Carbonated is a relatively small gaming studio, they have the tools to become a major player among the ...

Agora Inc hosts RTE2020

Monday, September 21, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger

Agora, Inc. will host its premier virtual conference RTE2020 on October 13-14, 2020. RTE2020 will remotely bring together leading global voices to discuss innovations in voice, video and streaming, at an unprecedented time when RTE is being adopted globally. Agora is partnering with its very own customer, virtual event platform Run The World, to produce an immer...

AudioMob runs competition for aspiring games developers and students

Friday, September 18, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger

AudioMob ,and pioneers of the audio advertising format in mobile games, announced one of the most exciting game jams of the year! It has been designed for Indie developers and students looking to break into the industry and the prizes are some of the best a game jam could offer. AudioMob’s ‘Resonate’ competition is aligned tightly w...

GDC 2021 event lineup

Tuesday, September 1, 2020 by Freeman Lightner

Informa Tech, the organizers of the Game Developers Conference (GDC), have revealed a new structure for virtual and physical GDC events for the rest of 2020 and 2021, which are continuing to evolve due to changes caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. With the inability to meet in person for the near future, organizers are expanding multiple aspects of its program. GDC 202...

Coronavirus ripple effect

Tuesday, August 18, 2020 by Richard Harris

COVID-19 has disrupted supply chains around the world. During emergency situations like this one, it’s vital for companies to implement an agile integration strategy to quickly and efficiently onboard new trading partners into their supply chains. However, nearly half (46%) of the businesses surveyed state that this onboarding process typically...

Self-learning technology for conversational AI from Boost ai

Thursday, March 26, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger

Boost.ai has released a self-learning technology for conversational AI. Developed and offered exclusively by boost.ai, self-learning AI overcomes the ‘cold start’ challenges of building and managing virtual agents with an automated system that intelligently analyzes and recommends both new conversational dialogs, as well as suggestions to improve existi...

Google announced product updates

Tuesday, March 24, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger

As an avid gamer, every year I look forward to spending time with developers at GDC to celebrate together and learn from their successes. We are all disappointed that this year's conference was postponed, but we applaud the organizers for taking steps to protect our global community. Although we won’t be gathering in person this year, the Google team is hos...

Appian creates free COVID-19 Response Management application

Monday, March 23, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger

Appian announced that it has created a free COVID-19 Response Management application for enterprises and government agencies. True to Appian’s commitment for speed, the application can be fully configured and adopted within two hours. The app establishes a central command center to safeguard the health and safety of employees. It tracks health status, location,...

Informa Tech announces GDC Summer

Monday, March 23, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger

Informa Tech has announced GDC Summer, a three-day celebration of the art, craft, and business of game development, to be held from August 4-6 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. GDC Summer will be a unique Game Developers Conference experience but will retain the same high level of expert-led talks as the traditional GDC, along with a freestyle two-day expo show fl...

FTC responds to COVID 19

Monday, March 23, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger

The FTC is taking a variety of measures to respond to the new and challenging circumstances associated with the COVID-19 coronavirus crisis. The two main priorities, as always, are the health and safety of people, their families, and the entities and individuals who appear before us; and the continuity of our mission to protect consumers and competition. To that end, we...

Coronavirus spikes search data from CodeFuel

Thursday, March 12, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger

With the world in panic mode over the spread of Coronavirus and shocking updates daily, the world population is riding a roller-coaster of emotions. One way of observing this global wave of concern is through search data. Search data from CodeFuel, a leading search technology company, has revealed dramatic spikes in Coronavirus searches in different countries: Ove...