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EA's December quarter was weak as Dragon Age and soccer missed forecasts
Venture Beat - 4 Feb 2025 23:46
Electronic Arts reported weak earnings today for the holiday quarter, with results in line with the poor quarter that EA preannounced.
UGC company Voldex acquires Roblox life sim Brookhaven
Venture Beat - 4 Feb 2025 22:56
Voldex's latest acquisition in the Roblox space is life sim UGC game Brookhaven, which the company acquired with equity financing.
OmniHuman: ByteDance's new AI creates realistic videos from a single photo
Venture Beat - 4 Feb 2025 22:44
ByteDance's new OmniHuman AI can turn a single photo into a realistic video of a person speaking, singing and moving naturally, trained on 18,700 hours of human motion data.
Zynga unveils Game of Thrones: Legends -- The Dragon Egg Hunt, powered by Google Maps
Venture Beat - 4 Feb 2025 19:00
Zynga said its puzzle RPG Game of Thrones: Legends is hosting The Dragon Egg Hunt, a social-led sweepstakes, powered by Google Maps.
ESL FaceIt Group and Intel renew multi-year esports partnership on Counter-Strike
Venture Beat - 4 Feb 2025 18:00
ESL FaceIt Group and Intel renewed their long-standing partnership to support premier Counter-Strike esports competition worldwide.
Beamable raises $13.5M for decentralized open source backend infrastructure for games
Venture Beat - 4 Feb 2025 17:00
Beamable has raised $13.5 million in funding to develop its decentralized backend infrastructure for games.
Return-to-office policies are leading to increased brain drain in the U.S.
Venture Beat - 4 Feb 2025 16:08
Return-to-office mandates are emerging as one of the most contentious of the post-pandemic work trends that U.S. employees have faced.
Adobe Acrobat AI now reads and explains your contracts in minutes -- here's how it works
Venture Beat - 4 Feb 2025 16:00
Adobe Acrobat's new AI assistant analyzes complex contracts, answers specific questions, and explains legal terms in plain language--helping users understand documents in under 5 minutes instead of hours.
Atari reveals Breakout Beyond as reimagining of classic game
Venture Beat - 4 Feb 2025 16:00
Atari and developer Choice Provisions (the studio behind Bit.Trip) announced Breakout Beyond, a reimagining of the classic game series.
Nintendo sells 4.82M Switch consoles in holiday quarter, down 30.1%
Venture Beat - 4 Feb 2025 09:28
Nintendo announced its financial results for its third fiscal quarter ended December 31, with hardware sales of the Switch hitting 4.82 million units.
Open-source revolution: How DeepSeek-R1 challenges OpenAI's o1 with superior processing, cost efficiency
Venture Beat - 4 Feb 2025 03:25
We dive deep into hands-on testing, practical implications and actionable insights to help you understand which model best suits their needs.
Anthropic claims new AI security method blocks 95% of jailbreaks, invites red teamers to try
Venture Beat - 4 Feb 2025 01:34
The new Claude safeguards have already technically been broken but Anthropic says this was due to a glitch -- try again.