Live Above The Madness
Saga Origins, a division of Saga, and Spirit Animation teamed up to bring the animated character Karl AI Agent to life. As one of the first animated characters to be transformed into an AI Agent, the strawberry superhero character Karl will now engage with fans in real time, delivering interactive storytelling and healthy lifestyle tips in an effor…Read More
Havok announced that it will reduce its licensing fee for game studios who have game budgets under $20 million. The price cut reflects the tough times in the game industry. Now, Havok, which is owned by Microsoft, said that its licensing fees per game title will be $50,000, for the companies that are making a game with a budget under $20 million. T…Read More
SOCs are seeing false positive rates drop 70%, while shaving 40+ hrs a week of manual triage thanks to the rapid advances in AI copilots.Read More
There’s still a lot of juice left to be squeezed, cognitively and performance-wise, from classic Transformer-based, text-focused LLMs.Read More
Journalist Chris Dring has launched The Game Business, a new media brand for games, with backing from Geoff Keighley.Read More
DeepSeek’s free 685B-parameter AI model runs at 20 tokens/second on Apple’s Mac Studio, outperforming Claude Sonnet while using just 200 watts, challenging OpenAI’s cloud-dependent business model.Read More
Game developers are among the most creative people on the planet, but they have had a tough 2.5 years with more than 35,000 layoffs across gaming. Some of those cutbacks were expected to ease by 2025, but we’ve seen 1,200-plus layoffs in the first quarter. The troubles are so acute that, for the second year in a row, the Independent Games Fes…Read More
Microsoft and Bethesda’s big Xbox hit, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, debuts on Sony’s PlayStation 5 on April 17.Read More
Dion Harris of Nvidia helped us piece together the context for Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s GTC 2025 keynote.Read More
Pearl Abyss unveiled the believable, hyper-realistic graphics of the BlackSpace Engine that is at the heart of Crimson Desert.Read More
