Game developers, Frost Giant Studios is toying with the idea of using generative AI for characters of its upcoming RTS game Stormgate, successor to StarCraft. The idea however comes at a time voice actors already spoke against SAG-AFTRA’s decision to strike a
Ready Player One author Ernest Cline’s company Readyverse Studios has teased gamers with its latest offering, a battle royale game known as Open. The company released a trailer at SXSW this week, which doesn’t reveal much about Open, but it
Proof of Play, a blockchain gaming startup led by FarmVille co-creator Amitt Mahajan, successfully raised $33 million in a seed funding round. Greenoaks and a16z Crypto led the seed round, with Anchorage Digital, Mercury, Firebase, Zynga, Alchemy, Balaji Srinivasan, and
A trove of leaked documents last week revealed detailed plans from Microsoft for its gaming platform Xbox, including timelines for future upgraded gaming consoles, controllers, yet-to-be announced games from Bethesda, and other stuff. The partially redacted files were uploaded to
Kids’ favorites Lego and Thunderbirds are set to join the metaverse, having recently signed partnership deals with Epic Games and Sandbox respectively. At the same time, collectibles game Pokémon is seeking an expert in blockchain, NFTs, and the metaverse to
The Pokémon Company is looking to hire a Web3 and blockchain tech expert, suggesting the Japanese gaming giant could be taking a more serious look at the metaverse and NFTs. According to a recent job posting, The Pokémon Company wants
Popular AI chatbot ChatGPT may need more than 30,000 graphics processing units (GPUs) from American chip giant Nvidia to process training data, according to a new report by research firm TrendForce. The development could potentially squeeze out PC gamers. Nvidia
Interest in the metaverse exploded when Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg changed the name of the social media company to “Meta” in 2021, a rebrand that focused on building the metaverse. Since then, a lot has happened in the space. MetaNews
Twitch streamer Perri Karyal has started playing Elden Ring using only her thoughts and nothing else to control a character in the popular action role-playing game. To do this, the British-Canadian attached an EEG to her brain, which she uses
Dookey Dash, a game where players trudge through a messy sewer system in search of a key to a treasure that a monkey excreted, has gone live. The Bored Ape Yacht Club, or BAYC, launched the game on Jan. 18
Metaverse tokens with more than $1 billion in market capitalization plunged more than 90% in value throughout 2022 due to an industry-wide tanking of the crypto and metaverse markets. Among them, ApeCoin (APE), Flow (FLOW), The Sandbox (SAND), Decentraland (MANA), Axie
Video gamers have sued Microsoft Corp in a bid to stop its acquisition of Activision Blizzard, alleging the $69 billion deal will thwart competition in the gaming industry. The case was filed in a California court on Tuesday on behalf
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