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Skydance Interactive was formed back in 2016 to make virtual reality games, including 2024’s Behemoth, a VR action-adventure with shades of The Legend of Zelda and Shadow of the Colossus. The gaming division is now laying off scores of developers just a month after its parent company merged with Warner Bros.

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The event was Steam Indie Connect, a private night for Korean indie studios run by the Busan Indie Connect Festival committee and the Korea Creative Content Agency. Inven’s report on it, by Lee Du-hyeon, is mostly about AI clones and Next Fest. The VR part is the last question. The head of a VR studio…

All News AI-assisted Roblox games featured exact replicas of Elden Ring, CS, and more (Image: Bandai Namco).

Back in 2013, Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) was launched as the first “meme coin” — a cryptocurrency based on a meme, joke, or pop culture trend rather than a technical purpose. Many meme coins skyrocketed in 2021, driven by social media buzz and speculative traders, but fizzled out as rising interest rates chilled the market in…

Since its earliest days, the video game industry has been built on developers creating clones of competing games, with varying levels of originality and varying levels of enforcement from game platforms. Now, though, AI coding tools are making that cloning process so efficient that many developers are getting extremely cautious about sharing their early work…

There’s currently some tension between the video game industry and the proliferation of AI tools.

Epic Games is rushing headfirst into generative AI-based game development for an upcoming Disney shooter that uses characters from Marvel and Star Wars. Developers on the project were reportedly told to implement AI in their workflows, including for producing the game’s art.

While Gears of War: E-Day is a beautiful game, it’s incredibly demanding, whether you’re playing it on the Xbox Series Xor on PC. But, The Coalition was able to work some magic on the Xbox Series S by tapping into the SSD to increase performance.

Back in July, new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced a total of 3,200 job cuts across Microsoft’s gaming arm, with roughly half of those cuts being made alongside that announcement. The impact was vast. Various developers at Xbox studios, including Activision, Bethesda, Id Software, Blizzard, Mojang, and King suffered layoffs. Double Fine and Compulsion were…