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Source: Venture Beat Universal Foundry, a startup offering cloud infrastructure to Unreal Engine 5 game developers, has announced a grant for small game devs. Read Full Article
Source: The Verge YouTube is expanding its pilot of a new Premium Lite subscription plan to the United States, the company announced today. Priced at $7.99 per month compared to the $13.99 charge for regular YouTube Premium, the cheaper tier offers “most” videos without ads — including “gaming, fashion, beauty, news, and more.” The major…
Source: The Verge Delta Airlines is backing a startup that wants to design more fuel efficient, blended-wing-body aircraft, in the hopes of reducing its carbon footprint and making air travel more sustainable. The airline said today that it will help support the development of startup JetZero’s blended-wing-body (BWB) demonstrator aircraft that aims to cut fuel…
Source: The Verge Nintendo has won its legal battle against Dstorage, the French company it accused of hosting pirated games on its file-sharing site 1fichier.com. In a press release sent to outlets like Eurogamer and GBATemp, Nintendo says a French Court agreed that 1fichier.com is “liable for failing to remove or block access to unauthorised…
Source: Venture Beat The Global Entertainment Marketing Academy of Arts & Sciences (GEMA) is reviving the Game Marketing Awards. Read Full Article
Source: The Verge It was a cold Thursday afternoon in Las Vegas, and I was running late for my last appointment of the show. There was no telling how long an Uber might take, now that thousands upon thousands of CES 2025 attendees were leaving town and competing for space on the roads. “No problem,”…
Source: The Verge Victoria Song is a senior reviewer at The Verge who mostly focuses on health tech and wearables and who, she says, occasionally has “existential crises over silly gadgets I bought on TikTok against my better judgment.” One of her favorite gadgets is the Logitech MX Vertical wireless mouse. When did you get…
Source: The Verge After over a year and a half, Apple is updating the Mac Studio with a curious new quirk: it straddles two generations, with an M4 Max for the base model and an M3 Ultra for the upgraded model. You can preorder both versions at Apple’s site for $1,999 (M4 Max) and $3,999…
Source: The Verge Nvidia’s dominance over the latest generation of graphics cards ends today. AMD might have surrendered the high end of the GPU market, but its new $549 Radeon RX 9070 and $599 RX 9070 XT look set to bring Nvidia back to reality, at least in the midrange. After a disappointing $549 RTX…
Source: Venture Beat Sparq is launching Crown U, a sports game that uses AI, blockchain and more to redefine mobile sports game creation and marketing. Read Full Article
