Emile Morel, the creative director of Ubisoft’s in-development Beyond Good and Evil 2, died yesterday at 40, it’s been confirmed. IGN first reported the announcement yesterday after spotting tributes to Morel on LinkedIn. Ubisoft Montpellier, the primary Ubisoft studio leading development on Beyond Good and Evil 2, then released a statement about Morel’s passing on LinkedIn […]
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Former Sega Of America President And SCEA Founder, Bernie Stolar, Dies At 75
Former Sega of America president and Sony Computer Entertainment America founder Bernie Stolar has died at 75. Below is an obituary written by Steven L. Kent, author and gaming journalist, sent to Game Informer for use, in full: Bernard “Bernie” Stolar, a former top executive at Atari, Sony Computer Entertainment America, and Sega of America, […]
Arcane trailer takes us into an animated world of League of Legends
Arcane, the first full League of Legends animated series, has a trailer. Riot and Netflix released the first look at the series on Friday as part of Netflix’s Geeked Week event. The series seems to mostly take place in the the wonderful techno-paradise of Piltover and its twin city Zaun, a place of unchecked technological […]
ZeniMax Media Founder And CEO Robert A. Altman Has Passed Away
Robert A. Altman was a visionary and a pivotal force when it came to Bethesda’s evolution from its humble beginnings. It is with a heavy heart that we report the passing of Altman on February 4, 2021. Altman was the CEO of ZeniMax Media, the parent company to Bethesda Softworks. The American business executive founded […]
This TTRPG lets you play out Bridgerton’s Regency romance intrigue
If you watched Netflix’s spicy Regency romp Bridgerton over the holidays and thought, “Well gee, I’d love to be a young lady/gentleman seeking a prosperous match by navigating a polite but ruthless society,” you’re in luck: there’s a game for that now. Available on itch.io, The Social Season is a one-sheet TTRPG designed to recreate […]
Google launches privacy-sensitive Guest Mode on Google Assistant devices
Google today launched Guest Mode, a new way to use Google Assistant on smart devices like Nest Audio and Nest Hub Max without having to sign into a Google account. First announced last fall, Guest Mode allows users to use Google Assistant-powered smart speakers and smart displays without having their activity saved, offering ostensibly stronger […]
Hackers hijacked email security firm Mimecast to spy on customers
(Reuters) — Email security provider Mimecast said on Tuesday that hackers had hijacked its products in order to spy on its customers. The company said it had been alerted to the attack by investigators at Microsoft and that “a sophisticated threat actor” had compromised the certificate used to guard connections between its products and Microsoft’s […]
Workato raises $110 million for its business workflow automation platform
Workato, which offers an integration and automation platform for businesses, today announced it has raised $110 million at a post-money valuation of $1.7 billion. The company says it will put the funds toward product innovation and technology development, expanding its customer success program, launching its first user conference in 2021, and investing in scaling teams […]
A new technique called ‘concept whitening’ promises to provide neural network interpretability
Deep neural networks can perform wonderful feats, thanks to their extremely large and complicated web of parameters. But their complexity is also their curse: The innerworkings of neural networks are often a mystery — even to their creators. This is a challenge that has been troubling the artificial intelligence community since deep learning started to become […]
Pegasystems acquires Qurious.io to apply speech analytics to customer service
Pegasystems announced today it has acquired Qurious.io, a provider of a cloud service that analyzes voice calls in real time to enable customer service representatives to better determine their next best course of action. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Qurious.io combines speech-to-text, natural language processing (NLP), and emotion detection capabilities to analyze conversations […]