Dizzaract Games launches in Abu Dhabi as Middle East’s largest game studio
Source: Venture Beat Dizzaract Games has officially launched as the largest game development studio in the Middle East. Read Full Article
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Maybe giant gaming handhelds are where it’s at
Source: The Verge If you thought the Steam Deck was big, let alone Acer’s Nitro Blaze 11, get a load of this Frankenstein’s monster of a PC gaming handheld I’ve cobbled together. This is a pre-production version of Asus’s upcoming ROG Flow Z13 tablet combined with a GameSir G8 Plus clamp-on mobile controller; the Z13’s…
AI or Not raises $5M to stop AI fraud, deepfakes and misinformation
Source: Venture Beat AI or Not, an AI fraud detection platform, has raised $5 million in a seed funding round to accelerate its use of “AI to detect AI” in images. Read Full Article
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6 TikTok creators on where they’ll go if the app is banned
Source: The Verge It’s been more than four years since Donald Trump first moved to expel TikTok from the US — and now, just days before a second Trump presidency begins, it just might happen. President Joe Biden signed legislation last April that officially began the countdown that would force TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, to…
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Google rejects EU fact checking commitments for Search and YouTube
Source: The Verge Google has notified the European Union that it won’t integrate work from fact-checking organizations into Search or YouTube, ahead of the bloc’s plans to expand disinformation laws. Google had previously signed a set of voluntary commitments that the EU introduced in 2022 to reduce the impact of online disinformation, which are in…
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Sony cancels an unannounced live service God of War game
Source: The Verge One was from Syphon Filter and Days Gone developer Bend Games, while Schreier reports the other shuttered title was a live-service God of War game that Bluepoint Games “has been working on for the last couple of years.” Bluepoint Games is one of several developers Sony acquired in recent years as it…
Game developers expect to get back to growth in 2025 | Metaplay
Source: Venture Beat Throughout the games industry’s rather disastrous 2024, the notion that seemed to bolster everyone along was that it was going to get back to growth in the subsequent year. Gaming backend provider Metaplay today revealed a new report, which shows just how optimistic the industry is — at least on a macro…
Microsoft just built an AI that designs materials for the future. Here’s how it works.
Source: Venture Beat Microsoft researchers unveil MatterGen, a breakthrough AI system that generates novel materials for batteries and solar cells, accelerating scientific discovery 15 times faster than traditional methods while doubling success rates for stable compounds. Read Full Article
Sony reportedly cancels two more live-service games, one a God of War title
Source: Venture Beat A new report alleges that Sony has canceled two unannounced live-service titles from Bend Studio and Bluepoint Games. Read Full Article
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Trading is coming to Pokémon TCG Pocket later this month
Source: The Verge Today, TCPi revealed that, along with Pokémon TCG Pocket’s next set of cards, the game’s trading feature is set to launch later this month. TCPi didn’t specify an exact date in its statement about the update, but it did explain that trading will involve some restrictions and costs. In order to swap…