Game engine company Unity Technologies is flirting with the idea of going public, which could happen with an Initial Public Offer (IPO) this fall. The company has been testing the waters and is reported to be working with Goldman Sachs to lead the offering. Bloomberg wrote about the company’s plans on June 3, and so has Pitchbook. Pitchbook estimates Unity’s … Read more
As an artificial agent plays the GAN-generated game, GameGAN responds to the agent’s actions, generating new frames of the game environment in realtime
Nvidia’s GameGAN can
Arm introduced their latest SoC IP design, the Mali-G78, and claims that the GPU offers 25% better performance as a result of architectural, process, and other improvements compared to the old Mali-G77 2019 devices. The Mali G78 offers support for up to 24 cores, the most ever for Arm, and their new async technology improves scalability, and reduces energy consumption. Arm claims they’ve achieved … Read more
Forty years ago, PAC-MAN appeared in arcades in Japan and munched a path to global stardom. Now the retro classic has been reborn and delivered courtesy of AI. Trained on 50,000 episodes of the game, a new AI model created by Nvidia Research called GameGAN, can generate a fully functional version of PAC-MAN—without an underlying game engine. That means that … Read more
(Source: Epic) Epic has made some major improvements and upgrades to its popular game engine, Unreal. With the release of Unreal Engine 4.25, Epic has expanded the toolset to include content creation and editing for more areas of game and visualization development. Epic says their linear media tools are improved to enable even more immersive and efficient production of … Read more
ATI, founded in 1985 as Array Technology Inc., in Thornhill Canada just outside of Toronto, was a pioneer in the graphics chip and add-in board market. It was acquired by AMD in 2006 and formed what is now the Radeon Technology Group. In the fall of 1995, ATI announced its first combination of 2D, 3D, and MPEG-1 accelerator chip … Read more
The Coronavirus pandemic is upending just about every market and gaming has come in for more than its fair share. After all, when you’re locked up with nothing to do, there’s a whole lot of people who will do nothing but game. Nintendo is struggling with supply chain issues as demand upends projections and makes a joke of JIT manufacturing.
Nintendo faces supply chain issues. Will gamers remain loyal?
In honor of the NAB that never was, HP is introducing new products that are designed for creators, which in HP’s view include designers as well as artists. HP distinguishes itself with its full pipeline consisting of 3D printing capability, Hololens devices, and full-color displays. The company is rolling out new mobile devices designed for creatives on the move, even … Read more
Image credit Arne Hückelheim Nintendo’s Switch was the best selling game console in 2019—15 million units is significant and speaks to the enduring popularity of the Nintendo characters and game themes. And, they’d sell more if they could. Because of the shelter-in-place rules in most countries and most states in the US, the demand for the popular game console has … Read more
Sony is shipping its new wireless controller to developers who are implementing its unique dual-sensing features into their games. Sony claims the features of DualSense, along with PS5’s Tempest 3D AudioTech, will deliver a new feeling of immersion to players. When the PS4 launched in 2013, the DualShock 4 wireless controller earned a lot of positive feedback from gamers and … Read more
