Halo Infinite developers already reevaluating its stingy battle pass

343 Industries surprise-launched the multiplayer of Halo Infinite on Monday, and while the reception has been mostly positive, players absolutely hate the battle pass. It seems that 343 is already taking a look at the system and trying to figure out how best to proceed after players’ day-one frustration. There are multiple reasons that players […]

Back 4 Blood’s developers think the game is too hard

Back 4 Blood is a hard game — even the developers at Turtle Rock agree. In a recap posted to Reddit of the studio’s November update stream, Turtle Rock said that it will scale some of Back 4 Blood’s more punishing systems back to easy its brutal difficulty curve. The studio said it still wants […]

A developer’s guide to machine learning security

The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! Machine learning has become an important component of many applications we use today. And adding machine learning capabilities to applications is becoming increasingly easy. Many ML libraries and online services don’t even require a thorough knowledge of machine learning. However, […]

Aiven: 91% of developers say open source is in their future

Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Enterprise adoption of open source software has grown rapidly, and 91% of developers said in a recent survey they expect open source to be part of their make up a part of their organizations software plans in the years to come, according to Aiven, a […]

NLP Cloud helps app developers add language processing

Join GamesBeat Summit 2021 this April 28-29. Register for a free or VIP pass today. NLP tools and services are taking off, but developers often struggle with the hurdle of getting NLP models into production. NLP Cloud is a new AI startup focused on lowering the barriers for developers trying to create apps for sorting […]

Xbox And PC Developers Can Now Send Their Games To Microsoft For Accessibility Testing

It looks like Microsoft is aiming to make a positive change to the gaming industry in 2021, specifically around the ways accessibility for video games is handled. To do that, they are expanding their accessibility efforts and launching a never-before-done program that will help to evaluate Xbox and PC games. Microsoft’s gaming accessibility team have announced that developers […]

PlayStation Developers Share Their Own PS5 Screenshots

Photo Mode is arguably one of the best additions to consoles in recent memory. Previously limited to folks willing to hook up their system to a PC with a capture card, now anybody with a new PlayStation, Xbox, or Switch can easily snag a few pics of their own. Over on the PlayStation Blog, developers […]

SkateBIRD Developers Won’t Sell Games On GOG, Citing Devotion Pull

Earlier today, GOG.com announced that they were going to start selling Devotion, the Taiwanese psychological horror game that included a derogatory reference to Chinese President Xi Jinping. Mere hours after making the announcement, GOG walked-back their plans after receiving “many messages from gamers” presumably expressing outrage that GOG would dare to list a game that […]