DeepSeek-V3, ultra-large open-source AI, outperforms Llama and Qwen on launch
The new model shows open-source closing in on closed-source models, suggesting reduced chances of one big AI player ruling the game.Read More
about 3 hours ago
Popularium launches alpha for Chaos Agents from Magic creator Richard Garfield
Chaos Agents, a new autobattler royale game from Magic: The Gathering designer Richard Garfield, is launching its private alpha test today.Read More
about 10 hours ago
Maximum Entertainment divests Merge Games assets to Silver Lining
Maximum Entertainment announced it's divested assets of the former Merge Games to new publisher Silver Lining Interactive.Read More
2 days ago
OpenAI’s o3 shows remarkable progress on ARC-AGI, sparking debate on AI reasoning
o3 solved one of the most difficult AI challenges, scoring 75.7% on the ARC-AGI benchmark. But does it really mean we're closer to AGI?Read More
2 days ago
My most anticipated games of 2025 | The DeanBeat
I’m going to keep this post short as Rachel Kaser is giving this topic the real treatment. I wanted to weigh in on my own list of the most anticipated games of 2025. The list is in reverse order and the No. 1 most anticipated game is at the bottom of this post. While a lot of this is subjective, it’s always critical for the game industr…Read More
2 days ago
How Etermax took Trivia Crack World to Meta Quest VR headsets
Etermax scored big with Trivia Crack, a mobile game that has had more than 800 million downloads. Now it's moving into VR.Read More
2 days ago
Breakthrough T1D Play has raised $5M for diabetes research
The Breakthrough T1D Play program is a medical research charity raising money for critical research into diabetes.Read More
2 days ago
Learn how GE Healthcare used AWS to build a new AI model that interprets MRIs
Here's how GE Healthcare overcame challenges of 2D and created the industry’s first full-body 3D MRI research foundation model.Read More
3 days ago
Activision spells out matchmaking in ranked play for Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 multiplayer
Ranked play is live in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 multiplayer. And Activision has decided to explain how it works.Read More
3 days ago
Squid Game Unleashed players can unlock in-game rewards by watching Squid Game Season 2
Netflix said players of its newly released Squid Game Unleashed game will be able to unlock in-game rewards for watching Squid Game Season 2.Read More
3 days ago
The 4 biggest AI stories from 2024 and one key prediction for 2025
By all measures, 2024 was the biggest year for artificial intelligence yet — at least when it comes to the commercialization.Read More
3 days ago
The code whisperer: How Anthropic’s Claude is changing the game for software developers
Artificial intelligence assistants like Anthropic's Claude, once viewed with skepticism, have become indispensable software development tools.Read More
3 days ago
Unintended consequences: U.S. election results could vastly accelerate AI development
AI accelerationists have won as a consequence of the election, potentially sidelining those advocating for a more cautious approach.Read More
4 days ago
Large language overkill: How SLMs can beat their bigger, resource-intensive cousins
Whether a company begins with a proof-of-concept or live deployment, they should start small, test often and build on early successes.Read More
5 days ago
Players rebuke clumsy ad strategies, even in popular games | Mobile Premier League
MPL's latest report show that popular mobile titles can leave players dissatisfied with certain approaches to in-game ads and updates.Read More
6 days ago
Arm lawsuit against Qualcomm ends in mistrial and favorable ruling for Qualcomm
Qualcomm did not violate a license with Arm when it acquired Nuvia for $1.4 billion, in a ruling by a jury today.Read More
6 days ago
Players invested 8.34B hours into Blizzard titles in 2024, says studio
Blizzard has released its 2024 End-of-Year report, detailing the amount of player investment in its titles across the year.Read More
6 days ago
Hugging Face shows how test-time scaling helps small language models punch above their weight
Given enough time to "think," small language models can beat LLMs at math and coding tasks by generating and verifying multiple answers.Read More
6 days ago
Perplexity’s Carbon integration will make it easier for enterprises to connect their data to AI search
With the acquisition of Carbon, Perplexity will expand the knowledge pool powering its AI search engine, making its responses more relevant. Read More
6 days ago
OpenAI confirms new frontier models o3 and o3-mini
OpenAI has just confirmed that is releasing new reasoning models named o3 and o3-mini, successors to the o1 and o1-mini models.Read More
6 days ago
My favorite games of 2024 | The DeanBeat
So many games. So little time. Seems like I say that every year, as my pile of shame gets bigger. But I had enough time to pick my fav games.Read More
6 days ago
Building giant and ambitious games | Brendan Greene interview
Elvis Presley once said, "Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine." Brendan Greene, the creator of PUBG, still has a lot of ambition.Read More
6 days ago
ChatGPT adds more PC and Mac app integrations, getting closer to piloting your computer
ChatGPT can now support more coding platforms and applications on its desktop apps, opening the door for more agentic use in the future.Read More
7 days ago
SpongeBob SquarePants is the latest icon to join the UEFN platform
Zoned and Paramount have brought SpongeBob to Fortnite’s UEFN platform in four new UGC-based experiences.Read More
7 days ago
Gamefam closes year of growth with 5 of top 15 branded games on Roblox
Gamefam said that its branded games on Roblox and Fortnite have exceeded 2.7 billion brand engagements in 2024.Read More
7 days ago
Google unveils new reasoning model Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking to rival OpenAI o1
Unlike competitor reasoning model o1 from OpenAI, Gemini 2.0 enables users to access its step-by-step reasoning through a dropdown menu.Read More
7 days ago
Stable Diffusion 3.5 hits Amazon Bedrock: What it means for enterprise AI workflows
Stability AI CEO drives enterprise AI focus home as the flagship Stable Diffusion models land on Amazon Bedrock.Read More
7 days ago
Nintendo’s Don James will get AIAS lifetime achievement award
Don James, a longtime leader and cornerstone of Nintendo of America’s legacy, will be honored with a prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award.Read More
7 days ago
Linden Lab has spent $1.3B building Second Life and paid $1.1B to creators (updated)
Linden Lab has spent $1.3 billion building the Second Life virtual world, which debuted back in 2003 in the first era of the metaverse.Read More
7 days ago
The future games industry will favor two consoles | DFC Intelligence
DFC Intelligence has released its forecast for the games industry, in which it predicts that two out of three consoles will succeed.Read More
7 days ago
How user-generated content is shaping the future of gaming and media
How studios can leverage user generated content, long-term engagement and real-world profit for both creators and studios.Read More
7 days ago
Pentagon Games will launch a digital world on the Tron Web3 network
Pentagon Games, a Web3 game company making immersive virtual environments, has teamed with the Tron DAO (decentralized autonomous organization) to create a new digital world on the Tron blockchain. Pentagon Games said it is working with the Tron DAO, a community-governed DAO dedicated to accelerating the decentralization of the internet via blockch…Read More
7 days ago
Women leaders are creating opportunities at the crossroad of gaming and media
GB Insider: How future leaders with diverse perspectives can get their foot in the door of the growing gaming and entertainment industry.Read More
7 days ago
Samsung and Netflix partner on Squid Game Season 2 and Squid Game Unleashed
Samsung is teaming up with Netflix to bring its streaming app to the Galaxy Store, just in time to unwrap new content for Squid Game.Read More
7 days ago
Zentry brings Ragnarok Landverse to Ronin Web3 network
Zentry will bring its massively multiplayer online role-playing game Ragnarok Landverse to Sky Mavis' Ronin Web3 network.Read More
7 days ago
Small model, big impact: Patronus AI’s Glider outperforms GPT-4 in key AI evaluation tasks
Patronus AI launches Glider, a breakthrough 3.8B-parameter language model that rivals GPT-4's evaluation capabilities while running on-device, offering transparent AI assessment with detailed explanations for developers and enterprises.Read More
7 days ago
Nazara’s Nodwin Gaming acquires AFK Gaming
Nodwin, a gaming and esports division of India's Nazara Technologies, has acquired AFK Gaming, a gaming and esports media company.Read More
8 days ago
Active investors in game devs could fall in 2025 | Pitchbook
The number of investors active in gaming will fall further as the sector remains underinvested relative to public market capitalization.Read More
8 days ago
Beyond LLMs: How SandboxAQ’s large quantitative models could optimize enterprise AI
Alphabet spinout SandboxAQ is advancing large quantitative models to help enterprise AI optimize value creation.Read More
8 days ago
EA Sports College Football 25 climbs sales rankings in quiet November | Circana
EA Sports College Football 25 posts banner sales, according to industry-tracking firm Circana, in an otherwise fairly mundane month.Read More
8 days ago
OpenAI’s new hotline: Chat with ChatGPT anytime, anywhere
Users can now give ChatGPT a ring and ask questions. (800)-ChatGPT accepts any device that can make calls, even for those without a data planRead More
8 days ago
Slack is becoming an AI workplace: Here’s what that means for your job
Slack is evolving from a simple messaging app into an AI-powered workplace platform where digital agents work alongside humans.Read More
8 days ago
GitHub is making its AI programming Copilot free for VS Code developers — with limits
The service leverages advanced AI models, including Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet and OpenAI’s GPT-4o, with limits.Read More
8 days ago
Salesforce drops Agentforce 2.0, brings reasoning AI to enterprise
Salesforce has unveiled Agentforce 2.0, introducing AI agents with human-like reasoning abilities that can autonomously handle complex business tasks, marking a major push into the emerging 'digital labor' market.Read More
8 days ago
U.S. venture capital outlook for 2025 is looking stronger | Pitchbook
The outlook for U.S. venture capital investments for 2025 looks relatively stronger than what the market has produced in the past few years.Read More
8 days ago
AI filmmakers take note! Runway launches talent platform to meet, greet, and get hired
The new Runway Talent Network is already home to dozens of AI-skilled artists and companies, including Harmony Korine’s EDGLRD studio.Read More
8 days ago
The Games Awards 2024 grows 31% to record 154M livestreams
The Game Awards announced its 10th anniversary show broke viewership records with an estimated 154 million global livestreams, up 31%.Read More
8 days ago
Sophon launches mainnet blockchain with $500M in locked value
Sophon has launched its mainnet, introducing the first-ever Validium on the Avail network.Read More
8 days ago
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is the year’s finest game | review
There were 21 Indiana Jones video games. Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is finally the One.Read More
8 days ago
Vgames raises $142M for its third fund for gaming
Vgames raised $142 million for its third fund to continue investing in talented gaming teams across the world. Led by Eitan Reisel and Daniel Mironov, the fund (which spells its name Vgames) will invest in game studios across different stages, backing talented founders and supporting them as they grow. “The third fund super exciting, as…Read More
8 days ago
Aethir teams with MetaStreet to launch Yield Pass on Arbitrum
Aethir, a decentralized cloud infrastructure company, and finance firm MetaStreet launched Yield Pass on the Arbitrum blockchain.Read More
8 days ago
IBM wants to be the enterprise LLM king with its new open-source Granite 3.1 models
The IBM Granite 3.1 open source models provide 128K context, integrated hallucination protection and accelerated embedding capabilities.Read More
8 days ago
Simulation Theory raises $2M so computers stop wasting compute resources
Simulation Theory, a startup dedicated to reducing waste by optimizing compute resources, has raised $2 million in pre-seed funding.Read More
8 days ago
Meta’s new BLT architecture replaces tokens to make LLMs more efficient and versatile
Byte latent transformer (BLT) uses a special architecture to learn directly from raw bytes as opposed to tokenized chunks of text.Read More
8 days ago
Moon Beast Productions raises $4.5M for action RPG
Moon Beast Productions, an indie game studio founded by game industry veterans raised $4.5 million in seed funding for an ARPG.Read More
8 days ago
Coplay raises $1.2M to build AI copilot for game devs
Coplay, the AI copilot for game developers, today announced it has raised $1.2 million in pre-seed funding.Read More
8 days ago
Agave Games raises $18M in funding to expand Find the Cat mobile title
Agave Games is using its latest round of funding to expand its mobile title Find the Cat as well as potentially develop new games.Read More
9 days ago
UAE’s Falcon 3 challenges open-source leaders amid surging demand for small AI models
The UAE-backed institute has released Falcon 3 in four different sizes with the goal of democratizing access to advanced AI capabilities.Read More
9 days ago
OpenAI opens up its most powerful model, o1, to third-party developers
A major step forward for devs looking to build new advanced AI applications or integrate the most advanced OpenAI tech.Read More
9 days ago
Salt AI raises $3M for AI workflow orchestration
Salt, an AI workflow orchestration firm for enterprises, raised $3 million in seed funding and appointed Aber Whitcomb as CEO.Read More
9 days ago
NFL Universe Football launches NFL Christmas Games on Netflix
NFL and Netflix fans alike can experience the holidays on Roblox through winter-themed football events in NFL Universe Football and Netflix's Nextworld.Read More
9 days ago
Aonic group receives $160M investment to support its growing studio roster
Aonic announced it's receiving a €152 million, or about $160 million following a year of growth to support its studios.Read More
9 days ago
Schell Games launches wacky Party Versus mixed reality game on VR
Party Versus, a mixed-reality social party game from Schell Games, is launching today as an exclusive on the Meta Quest 3 and Meta Quest 3S.Read More
9 days ago
Google upgrades its programming agent Code Assist with Gemini 2.0, adds source integrations
Google's enterprise-focused Code Assist will now be powered by Gemini 2.0 and connect to tools like Atlassian, GitHub and GitLab.Read More
9 days ago
Big Time Studios launches $150M Open Loot Fund for Web3 gaming
Big Time Studios announces a $150 million Open Loot Fund to propel Web3 Gaming on the Open Loot platform.Read More
9 days ago
Nvidia and DataStax just made generative AI smarter and leaner — here’s how
Nvidia and DataStax launch new AI tool that reduces enterprise data storage costs by 35x while enabling multilingual retrieval, transforming how companies like Wikimedia process and access massive datasets.Read More
9 days ago
How to get paid way more in 2025
To secure a pay raise, finely-tuned negotiation tactics are generally required, but advice on negotiation is always changing.Read More
9 days ago
Engineered Arts restructures with $10M to create humanoid robots
Engineered Arts, a United Kingdom firm making humanoid robots, has restructured as a U.S. company and raised $10 million.Read More
9 days ago
Play launches token and partners with Telefónica Group on Web3 gaming
Play, a platform for integrating Web3 technologies into gaming, has announced a partnership with Telefónica Innovación Digital.Read More
9 days ago
Casual and cute exploration in Revenge of the Savage Planet | hands-on preview
GamesBeat had a chance to play Revenge of the Savage Planet in a hands-on preview.Read More
9 days ago
Writer’s new AI model aims to fix the ‘sameness problem’ in generative content
Writer AI launches Palmyra Creative, a $1.9B enterprise AI solution that breaks free from generic AI content, offering businesses unique creative outputs at one-sixth the training cost of competitors.Read More
9 days ago
Devcom will launch leadership summit with Shawn Layden and more in Lisbon
Devcom is launching its Leadership Summit in February in Lisbon, Portugal, with key participants such as Shawn Layden, former president of Sony Interactive.Read More
9 days ago
Google: AI agents, multimodal AI, enterprise search will dominate in 2025
Google used NotebookLM, Google Trends and third-party insights to identify AI agents, multimodal AI and enterprise search as top 2025 trends.Read More
9 days ago
Game devs are 52.5% of the blockchain gaming industry | Blockchain Game Alliance
More professionals in blockchain gaming now come from a background in gaming than any other field, the Blockchain Game Alliance said.Read More
9 days ago
Geopolitics and AI will affect the chip industry in 2025 | KPMG
AI is making semiconductor leaders more optimistic about 2025, but headwinds could come from geopolitical and talent retention concerns.Read More
10 days ago
Twitch ends 2024 with a fresh batch of top streamers | StreamElements
StreamElements has published its 2024 report for streaming on Twitch, which shows the shifting list of its top streamers.Read More
10 days ago
Midjourney adds Pinterest-like ‘moodboards’ and support for multiple custom AI image models
Midjourney's new moodboards enable users to upload curated collections of images that act as inspiration for generating new art.Read More
10 days ago
Slack’s AI agents promise to reshape productivity with contextual power
Slack CPO Rob Seaman reveals how Agentforce 2.0 will transform workplace AI by leveraging contextual intelligence and deep platform integration, transforming how enterprises use AI agents for automation and collaboration.Read More
10 days ago
Apple unveils the most-downloaded games and apps of 2024
As 2024 comes to a close, Apple is unveiling the most downloaded games and apps of the year in the U.S.Read More
10 days ago
OpenAI updates ChatGPT Search with voice queries, faster results, mobile maps integration
OpenAI is updating its web search integration with ChatGPT to expand access and make it more useful to those on the go.Read More
10 days ago
Google debuts new AI video generator Veo 2 claiming better audience scores than Sora
The next generation of Google's video generation model Veo promises to create more realistic-looking videos.Read More
10 days ago
See how Google Gemini 2.0 Flash can perform hours of business analysis in minutes
Google's Gemini 2.0 Flash provides business analysts with greater speed and flexibility in defining Python scripts for complex analysis.Read More
10 days ago
Dark Passenger raises $3M for veterans of The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077
Dark Passenger, a studio formed by veterans of The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077, has raised $3 million in a seed round.Read More
10 days ago
We’ve come a long way from RPA: How AI agents are revolutionizing automation
From chatbots to retrieval-augmented generation applications to autonomous multi-agent AI: What's every enterprise leader needs to know.Read More
11 days ago
Synthetic data has its limits — why human-sourced data can help prevent AI model collapse
With model degradation, AI development could stall, leaving AI systems unable to ingest new data and essentially becoming “stuck in time.”Read More
12 days ago
The best of The Game Awards and the redemption of Geoff Keighley | The DeanBeat
Geoff Keighley redeemed himself with his tenth anniversary show for The Game Awards.Read More
12 days ago
Cohere’s smallest, fastest R-series model excels at RAG, reasoning in 23 languages
Cohere's Command R7B uses RAG, features a context length of 128K, supports 23 languages and outperforms Gemma, Llama and Ministral.Read More
13 days ago
Esports World Cup Foundation offers $20M in partner club expansion
The Esports World Cup Foundation is expanding its Club Partner Program to include 40 clubs, and is offering $20 million to invest.Read More
13 days ago
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Projects, letting you organize files, chats in groups
Projects in ChatGPT allows users to create folders and add conversations and documents, bringing these capabilities together in one place. Read More
13 days ago
Shutterstock pioneers ‘research license’ model with Lightricks, lowering barriers to AI training data
Shutterstock launches innovative "research license" model with Lightricks, making ethical AI training data more accessible for startups while ensuring fair compensation for creators.Read More
13 days ago
Pika 2.0 launches in wake of Sora, integrating your own characters, objects, scenes in new AI videos
Advanced image recognition tech ensures these components are seamlessly integrated into AI generated videos, giving creators more control.Read More
13 days ago
Goodville introduces AI mental health resource as part of WHO partnership
Mobile farming sim Goodville celebrated its third year partnered with the World Health Organization with new mental health resources.Read More
13 days ago
NotebookLM updates Business to Plus with more audio, lets all users interact with AI hosts
Google releases a new paid version of NotebookLM to enterprises, teams and power users, and offers new interactions with its audio feature.Read More
13 days ago
Gemini 2.0 Flash ushers in a new era of real-time multimodal AI
Google’s release of Gemini 2.0 Flash this week, offering users a way to interact live with video of their surroundings, has set the stage for what could be a pivotal shift in how enterprises and consumers engage with technology. This release — alongside announcements from OpenAI, Microsoft, and others — is part of transformative leap forward happening in the technology area called “multimodal AI.”Read More
13 days ago
EA teams with Comcast and Peacock on EA Sports FC games
Electronic Arts, Comcast and Peacock announced a new partnership to coincide with the launch of EA Sports FC 25 and first anniversary of EA Sports FC Mobile.Read More
13 days ago
New LLM optimization technique slashes memory costs up to 75%
Universal Transformer Memory uses neural networks to determine which tokens in the LLM's context window are useful or redundant.Read More
13 days ago
Astro Bot wins Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2024
Team Asobi's Astro Bot is the winner of Game of the Year at the 10th anniversary of The Game Awards for 2024.Read More
14 days ago
Naughty Dog reveals its new game, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet
Legendary studio Naughty Dog has revealed the new IP it's been working on for four years, Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet.Read More
14 days ago
Wargaming unveils Steel Hunters sci-fi mech game
Wargaming announced its new original intellectual property Steel Hunters.Read More
14 days ago
Mafia: The Old Country is coming in the summer of 2025
Take-Two Interactive's 2K label and Hangar 13 studio took the wraps off Mafia: The Old Country, the next major installment in the long-running Mafia series.Read More
14 days ago