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Roll20, an online tabletop role-playing game platform, discloses data breach

Published July 3, 2024

Roll20 said that on June 29 it had detected that a “bad actor” gained access to an account on the company’s administrative website for one hour.

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Meta plans to bring generative AI to metaverse games

Published July 2, 2024

Meta plans to bring more generative AI tech into games, specifically VR, AR and mixed reality games, as the company looks to reinvigorate its flagging metaverse strategy. According to a job listing, Meta is seeking to research and prototype “new consumer experiences” with new types of gameplay driven by generative AI, like games that “change […]

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Bye-bye bots: Altera’s game-playing AI agents get backing from Eric Schmidt

Published May 8, 2024

Autonomous, AI-based players are coming to a gaming experience near you, and a new startup, Altera, is joining the fray to build this new guard of AI agents. The company announced Wednesday that it raised $9 million in an oversubscribed seed round, co-led by First Spark Ventures (Eric Schmidt’s deep-tech fund) and Patron (the seed-stage fund […]

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Nintendo finally confirms the Switch 2 is on the way

Published May 7, 2024

In the most anticlimactic way possible, Nintendo on Tuesday confirmed years of rumors: The Nintendo Switch 2 console is on the way.

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Twitch’s TikTok-like discovery feed is rolling out to all users

Published April 30, 2024

Twitch is officially rolling out its new TikTok-like discovery feed to all users this week, the company announced on Tuesday. The new feed, which is launching as a tab within the Twitch iOS and Android apps, allows viewers to scroll through bite-sized bits of content to discover new streamers. The official launch follows Twitch’s earlier […]

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Playruo lets you try game demos from your web browser

Published April 25, 2024

It’s still unclear whether cloud gaming will ever become the next big thing. The appeal is clear: The game you’re playing runs in a data center near you, and the video output is directly streamed to your local device. When you interact with the game, everything is relayed back to the data center. When it […]

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Fintech gaming startup Sanlo’s webshop tool could help developers avoid costly app store fees

Published April 24, 2024

Sanlo, a fintech startup that helps gaming companies manage finances, announced Wednesday the closed beta launch of its webshop tool, giving select game developers and studios a plug-and-play solution that works alongside their existing tech stacks. Gaming companies can sign up for a demo starting today. With Google and Apple charging a 30% fee for […]

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Apple pulls a Game Boy emulator for App Store violations, but says game emulators are allowed

Published April 15, 2024

iGBA was an ad-supported copy of the open-source project GBA4iOS that offered a Game Boy game emulator for iOS.

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Rooms, a 3D design app and ‘cozy game,’ gets a major update as users jump to 250K

Published April 4, 2024

Five months ago, Rooms, a 3D design platform made by ex-Google employees, launched its beta version on the App Store. Today, the free iOS app is getting a big update that will bring a wave of new discovery-first features, including an activity feed, an explore page, the ability to browse by category, and more. Rooms […]

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Pitch Deck Teardown: SuperScale’s $5.4M Series A deck

Published March 15, 2024

The company is promising to make marketing for games easier, and we know that great marketing is one of the crucial differences between an OK outcome and a smash-hit success.

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