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Amazon is reportedly building a video game streaming service, says Information

According to a report by Information, Amazon is developing a video game streaming service. Microsoft and Google have also previously announced similar game streaming...

Improbable says Unity blocked SpatialOS; Unity responds saying it has shut down Improbable and...

A fresh drama has emerged between Unity and Improbable. According to yesterday’s blog post by the SpatialOS creator, Improbable says that Unity has blocked...
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CES 2019: Top announcements made so far

CES 2019, the annual consumer electronics show in Las Vegas will go from Tuesday, Jan. 8 through Friday, Jan. 11. However, the conference has...
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Blender celebrates its 25th birthday!

Blender, a free and open source 3D computer graphics software, celebrated its 25th birthday yesterday. Blender team celebrated the birthday by publishing a post...
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Corona Labs open sources Corona, its free and cross-platform 2D game engine

Corona Labs announced yesterday that it’s making its free and cross-platform 2D game engine, Corona, available as open source under the GPLv3 license and...
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Fortnite server suffered a minor outage, Epic Games was quick to address the issue

Yesterday, many Fortnite players reported long queues for matches and timeouts while trying to play the game. The Fortnite outage happened during the holiday...
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Blender 2.8 released with a revamped user interface, and a high-end viewport among others

The Blender team released version 2.8 of its Blender, a free and open-source 3D creation software, earlier this week. Blender 2.8 comes with new...
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NVIDIA launches GeForce Now’s (GFN) ‘recommended router’ program to enhance the overall performance and...

NVIDIA launched a ‘recommended router’ program last week to improve the overall experience of its GeForce Now (GFN) cloud gaming service for PC and...
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Unity and Baidu collaborate for simulating the development of autonomous vehicles

This week, Unity Technologies, the real-time 3D development platform creator, announced its collaboration with Baidu Inc., China's leading Internet giant for developing a real-time...
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Unity ML-Agents Toolkit v0.6 gets two updates: improved usability of Brains and workflow for...

Unity ML-agents toolkit v0.6 is getting two major enhancements, announced the Unity team in a blog post on Monday. The first update turns Brains...

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Google DeepMind’s AI AlphaStar beats StarCraft II pros TLO and MaNa;...

It was two days back when the Blizzard team announced an update about the demo of the progress made by Google’s DeepMind AI at...

Must Read in Game Development

Google DeepMind’s AI AlphaStar beats StarCraft II pros TLO and MaNa;...

It was two days back when the Blizzard team announced an update about the demo of the progress made by Google’s DeepMind AI at...

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