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Take-Two reports flat bookings of $1.2B for June quarter
Venture Beat - 9 Aug 2024 00:15
Take-Two Interactive Software reported that its bookings in the June quarter were $1.22 billion, or flat compared to $1.20 billion a year ago.
Black Desert Console cools off with Mountain of Eternal Winter
Venture Beat - 8 Aug 2024 17:00
Xbox and PlayStation players can explore Black Desert Console's new region, Mountain of Eternal Winter, starting today.
Alibaba claims no. 1 spot in AI math models with Qwen2-Math
Venture Beat - 9 Aug 2024 01:59
They outperform all others in the world -- including the vaunted OpenAI GPT-4o, Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and even Google.
Nexon results driven by Dungeon&Fighter Mobile in China
Venture Beat - 8 Aug 2024 22:13
Nexon said its second-quarter earnings were driven by Dungeon&Fighter Mobile in the Chinese market.
Nazara acquires Fusebox Games for $27.2M
Venture Beat - 8 Aug 2024 21:50
Nazara Technologies, a publicly traded gaming and sports media company in India, has acquired Fusebox Games in the U.K. for $27.2 million.
11 Bit Studios partners with Skybound on Frostpunk 2 Special Edition
Venture Beat - 8 Aug 2024 21:24
Frostpunk 2 developers 11 Bit Studios partnered with Skybound on a Special Edition of the game featuring multiple bonus items.
LG unleashes South Korea's first open-source AI, challenging global tech giants
Venture Beat - 8 Aug 2024 20:45
LG launches Exaone 3.0, South Korea's first open-source AI model, challenging global tech giants and reshaping the AI landscape with improved efficiency and multilingual capabilities.
Hugging Face acquires XetHub from ex-Apple researchers for large AI model hosting
Venture Beat - 8 Aug 2024 20:13
The HF team plans to integrate XetHub and upgrade its storage backend, enabling developers to host more large models and datasets.
Anthropic offers $15,000 bounties to hackers in push for AI safety
Venture Beat - 8 Aug 2024 19:47
Anthropic launches expanded AI bug bounty program, offering up to $15,000 for critical vulnerabilities in its AI systems, setting new standards for AI safety and transparency.
Story Kitchen will take TinyBuild's time travel game Kingmakers to live-action film
Venture Beat - 8 Aug 2024 17:00
Story Kitchen will work with TinyBuild and Redemption Road Games to adapt the medieval time-travel game, Kingmakers, into a live-action film.
Immutable offers new modes in Gods Unchained trading card game update
Venture Beat - 8 Aug 2024 14:00
Web game company Immutable Games said its upcoming Formats update in Gods Unchained will offer players new rotating game modes in the blockchain trading card game. Starting August 19, Gods Unchained players can refres...
Thirdverse appoints Masaru Ohnogi as CEO to drive VR games forward
Venture Beat - 8 Aug 2024 07:00
Thirdverse, one of Japan’s prolific virtual reality game companies, has appointed Masaru “Nogi” Ohnogi as CEO. Ohnogi will become a representative director and CEO of the company on August 8 under a new management ...
Bitkraft invests in Gam3Girl Ventures to help Web2 devs move to Web3
Venture Beat - 8 Aug 2024 04:23
Bitkraft announced it has invested in Gam3Girl Ventures as part of the latter's mission to bring more Web2 devs into the Web3 space.