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DeepMind AI’s AlphaStar achieves Grandmaster level in StarCraft II with 99.8% efficiency

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Earlier this year in January, Google’s DeepMind AI AlphaStar had defeated two professional players, TLO and MaNa, at StarCraft II, a real-time strategy game....

Blizzard comes under fire after banning pro-player for expressing support for Hong Kong protests

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Update: The article has now been updated to include Blizzard's press release about relaxing the ban on the pro-player.  Blizzard has been under fire since...

Unreal Engine 4.23 releases with major new features like Chaos, Virtual Production, improvement in...

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Last week, Epic released the stable version of Unreal Engine 4.23 with a whopping 192 improvements. The major features include beta varieties like Chaos...
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Bitbucket to no longer support Mercurial, users must migrate to Git by May 2020

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Yesterday marked an end of an era for Mercurial users, as Bitbucket announced to no longer support Mercurial repositories after May 2020. Bitbucket, owned...
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Japanese Anime studio Khara is switching its primary 3D CG tools to Blender

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Popular Japanese animation studio Khara, announced on Friday that it will be moving to open source 3D software Blender as its primary 3D CG...
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Unity 2019.2 releases with updated ProBuilder, Shader Graph, 2D Animation, Burst Compiler and more

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Yesterday, the Unity team announced the release of Unity 2019.2. In this release, they have added more than 170 new features and enhancements for...

Blender 2.80 released with a new UI interface, Eevee real-time renderer, grease pencil, and...

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After about three long years of development, the most awaited Blender version, Blender 2.80 finally shipped yesterday. This release comes with a redesigned UI...

Following Epic Games, Ubisoft joins Blender Development fund; adopts Blender as its main DCC...

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Yesterday, Ubisoft Animation Studio (UAS) announced that they will fund the development of Blender as a corporate Gold member through the Blender Foundation’s Development...
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CraftAssist: An open-source framework to enable interactive bots in Minecraft by Facebook researchers

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Two days ago, researchers from Facebook AI Research published a paper titled “CraftAssist: A Framework for Dialogue-enabled Interactive Agents”. The authors of this research...
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Epic Games grants Blender $1.2 million in cash to improve the quality of their...

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Yesterday, Epic Games announced that it is awarding Blender Foundation $1.2 million in cash spanning three years, to accelerate the quality of their software...

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Why should you use Unreal Engine 4 to build Augmented and...

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This is an exciting time to be a game developer. New technologies like Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) are here and growing...

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