The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! NeuroBlade, a company developing an in-memory inference chip for datacenters and edge devices, today announced that it raised $83 million in a funding round led by Corner Ventures and Intel Capital with participation from StageOne Ventures, Grove Ventures, Marius Nacht, […]
Magic Leap Won't Make a Consumer Headset but May License Tech to Someone That Will
The Entire VR Industry in One Little Email The Daily Roundup is our comprehensive coverage of the VR industry wrapped up into one daily email, delivered directly to your inbox. Magic Leap just gave us the first glimpse of its Magic Leap 2 AR headset earlier this week. Despite a consumer-focused start, the company has […]
Games Inbox: Could 2K buy the FIFA licence instead of EA?
The Thursday Inbox discusses the best ever console revamps and remodels, as another reader recommends Metroid Dread. To join in with the discussions yourself email [email protected] FIFA 2K23So here’s an idea. We all know Konami are in no position to take advantage of EA changing the FIFA name, but what about other publishers? Weirdly, I’m […]
19 months later, Animal Crossing: New Horizons finally gets its Froggy Chair
Nintendo will release the highly coveted and beloved Froggy Chair for Animal Crossing: New Horizons as part of a new, free update for the life simulation game coming Nov. 5. It’s one of many new items coming to the game, and one that longtime Animal Crossing fans have been desperate for since New Horizons launched […]
Jurassic World Aftermath Part 2 Available Now On Oculus Quest
The second part of Jurassic World Aftermath is now available for Oculus Quest as a DLC add-on for part one. Jurassic World Aftermath released last December for Oculus Quest. While we enjoyed the game overall, it did leave players hanging on a pretty considerable cliffhanger, thanks to the somewhat-silent shift to an episodic release structure […]
Monster Hunter Rise won’t have cross-play or cross-save between PC and Switch
Monster Hunter Rise is finally coming to PC early next year, but it won’t let players join their friends on Nintendo Switch. Monster Hunter Rise will not have cross-play or cross-save when it arrives on PC in 2022, and neither will the Monster Hunter Rise Sunbreak expansion when it comes to Switch in summer 2022, […]
We are sleepwalking into AI-augmented work
The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! A recent New York Times article concludes that new AI-powered automation tools such as Codex for software developers will not eliminate jobs but simply be a welcome aid to augment programmer productivity. This is consistent with the argument we’re increasingly […]
Fall Guys Sets Guinness World Record As The Most Downloaded PS Plus Game Ever
Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout launched August 4, 2020, as a “free” PlayStation Plus game. It didn’t take long before word-of-mouth spread about its fun blend of platforming and game show-style battle royale format, becoming one of the most popular multiplayer games on the market. Apparently, that initial buzz was even louder than we realized because Fall […]
Diablo 4 Design Lead, Joe Shely, Promoted To Game Director
The design lead of Diablo 4, Joe Shely, has been promoted to game director. This news comes by way of the October 2021 Diablo 4 quarterly update posted by Blizzard, which reveals Shely will be taking up the position previously held by Luis Barriga, who left the company in August amidst an ongoing investigation following […]
Immerse says VR training could help deal with the ‘great resignation’
Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next. The “great resignation” is rippling through the American workforce — with millions of people quitting their jobs. Virtual reality training is one of the things that might put a halt to that. In a research report dubbed […]