Welcome to our 100th pitch deck teardown! This week, I’m taking a look at MegaMod’s seed-stage pitch deck. MegaMod seems to be the latest darling of the gaming […]
GM’s Cruise taps Xbox video game veteran as next CEO
GM’s Cruise has appointed Marc Whitten — a video game veteran who was a founding engineer at Xbox and Xbox Live— as CEO. The Cruise CEO position has […]
An Underrated Mashup Of Zelda 2 And Mega Man Is Finally On PS5
Some games make my heart bubble up with joy. They remind me of thumbing through tiny, beautiful booklets and tag-teaming tough bosses with friends. Not everyone’s childhood was easy, simple, or happy, but all of us have moments in our lives we look back fondly on and games that briefly bring them back to us. Panzer…
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Unity co-founder David Helgason’s next act: Gaming the climate crisis
Some retired CEOs go to space. Others move to Hawaii. But Unity co-founder David Helgason chose a different path after 12 years at the helm of the game […]
Bye-bye bots: Altera’s game-playing AI agents get backing from Eric Schmidt
Autonomous, AI-based players are coming to a gaming experience near you, and a new startup, Altera, is joining the fray to build this new guard of AI agents. […]
Putin Wants Russia To Make PlayStation And Xbox Competitor
If you thought the current landscape of video game consoles and handhelds was already packed, the entirety of Russia has something to say about that. At the very least, Russia’s president Vladimir Putin does, since he’s issued a mandate: produce Russian video game consoles to compete with the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.…
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Roblox UGC makers find community and representation through new creator options
Roblox user-generated content is a million-dollar brand opportunity. Young women and designers of color should lead the charge.
NVIDIA AI Demo Shows Why It Can’t Hope To Replace People
NVIDIA and Convai have released a trailer for their AI demo, Project Neural Nexus, and it predictably looks and sounds like shit.
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PlayStation will lay off 900 employees, including ‘Marvel’s Spider-Man’ and ‘The Last of Us’ developers
PlayStation will lay off around 900 employees, with studios such as Naughty Dog and Insomniac among the game developers impacted.
Microsoft lays off 1,900 employees in Activision Blizzard and Xbox divisions
Three months after completing its $68.7 billion acquisition of gaming company Activision Blizzard, Microsoft is laying off 1,900 employees in its gaming divisions. This amounts to about 8.6% […]