Startup News

Disney is investing $1.5 billion for an equity stake in Fortnite and Unreal Engine maker Epic Games as part of a plan to create a new gaming universe.

Per a new report from the ESA and Circana, U.S. consumers spent $57.2B on video games, hardware and accessories in 2023, up 1% from 2022.

The International Game Developers Association announced a new Incubation SIG to offer opportunities to gaming startups.

Sky Mavis is partnering with GMonsters to bring Fight League titles to the Ronin network, with support from publisher Mixi.

The company seems outwardly unconcerned about any criticisms of AI being misused, as well as unbothered by the lawsuit and investigation...

Bazooka Tango has launched a 10-day playtest to preview its Shardbound blockchain game in partnership with Immutable games.

Atlas has raised $4.5 million from the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) to build 3D generative AI and 3D asset creation tools.

Kyndryl unveiled an extended collaboration with Google Cloud to spearhead the development of responsible generative AI solutions across industries.

Space Nation Online plans to launch its Space Nation Online massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) in 2024, and it has laid out a roadmap to do so.

Abacus AI has released "Smaug-72B," a new open-source AI model that outperforms GPT-3.5 and Mistral Medium on the Hugging Face Open LLM leaderboard.

Is Final Fantasy VII Rebirth worth picking up for newcomers to the franchise? We played the first few hours to find out.