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Microsoft is planning to bring Xbox Live gaming to Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch, and...

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Microsoft is reportedly planning to bring Xbox Live cross-platform gaming features to PC, Xbox, iOS, Android, and Nintendo Switch. This news was first reported...

Game publisher, Activision-Blizzard to begin massive layoffs, 800 employees to be dismissed

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Game publisher Activision-Blizzard announced that it will lay off 8% of its staff of 9,600 employees. This announcement was made during the company’s fourth-quarter...

Unreal Engine 4.22 update: support added for Microsoft’s DirectX Raytracing (DXR)

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On 12th February, Epic Games released a preview build of Unreal Engine 4.22, and a major upgrade among numerous other features and fixes is...
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US Labor organization, AFL-CIO writes an open letter to game developers, urging them to...

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The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), the largest labour organization in the United States, published an open letter on...

Google teases a game streaming service set for Game Developers Conference

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Google plans to unveil a new gaming-related announcement on March 19th at the Game Developers Conference. This could possibly be based on their Project Stream...
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OpenAI introduces Neural MMO, a multiagent game environment for reinforcement learning agents

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On Monday, the team at OpenAI launched at Neural MMO (Massively Multiplayer Online Games), a multiagent game environment for reinforcement learning agents. It will...

Microsoft announces Game stack with Xbox Live integration to Android and iOS

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Microsoft has good news for all the game developers out there. It launched a new initiative, called Microsoft Game Stack yesterday, which includes an...

Godot 3.1 released with improved C# support, OpenGL ES 2.0 renderer and much more!

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On 13 March, Wednesday, the Godot developers announced the release of a new version of the open source 2D and 3D cross-platform compatible game...
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Researcher shares a Wolfenstein real-time ray tracing demo in WebGL1

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Last week, Reinder Nijhoff, a computer vision researcher, created a project that does real-time ray tracing in WebGL1 using Nvidia’s RTX graphics card. This...
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Google announces Stadia, a cloud-based game streaming service, at GDC 2019

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Yesterday, at the ongoing Game Developers Conference (GDC), Google marked its entry in the game industry with Stadia, its new cloud-based platform for streaming...

Must Read in Game Dev

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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