Surgent Studios, the maker of Tales of Kenzera: Zau, is partnering with Pocketpair Publishing, the newly founded publishing wing of Pocketpair (Palworld, Craftopia) to create a horror game for release in 2025. Surgent continues conversations with potential partners around Project Uso (revealed in October 2024) and other projects set in the Tales of…Read More
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Fortnite by the numbers: $342M paid to creators in 2024, with creators tripling to 70,000
Epic Games released its first Fortnite ecosystem year in review for 2024, and it has a lot to celebrate.Read More
ByteDance’s UI-TARS can take over your computer, outperforms GPT-4o and Claude
UI-TARS understands graphical user interfaces (GUIs), applies reasoning and takes autonomous, step-by-step action. Read More
Google releases free Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking model, pressuring OpenAI’s premium strategy
Google challenges OpenAI with free Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking model, offering million-token processing, native code execution, and breakthrough performance in math and science benchmarks.Read More
Unreal Engine superpowers a CG TV show
Unreal Engine, which has been known in its various incarnations as the premiere — perhaps even de facto — game engine for over a decade, is already quite familiar to major game developers, especially those with AAA experience. It might be harder to explain to the world of animated TV shows, though perhaps not for long. The engine is being used in t…Read More
Founder Ted Price retires from Insomniac Games
Ted Price, the founder and CEO of Insomniac Games, has announced he will retire after more than 30 years with the company on March 2025.Read More
Astro Bot wins the top prize at the New York Game Awards 2025
Astro Bot takes home another Game of the Year award at the New York Game Awards, along with two other trophies.Read More
Samsung teases Android XR devices coming later this year
Samsung teased its efforts with multimodal AI and new form factors including smart glasses and extended reality (XR) devices.Read More
DeepMind’s new inference-time scaling technique improves planning accuracy in LLMs
With “Mind Evolution” LLMs can use search and genetic algorithms to generate and combine different solutions and find the optimal one.Read More
OpenAI Stargate is a $500B bet: America’s AI Manhattan Project or costly dead-end?
OpenAI, Oracle, Softbank and MGX are investing a record amount in new AI infrastructure even as China’s DeepSeek outperforms on cost.Read More