February 1, 2025 12:40 PM VentureBeat/Midjourney Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The AI narrative has reached a critical inflection point. The DeepSeek breakthrough — achieving state-of-the-art performance without relying on the most advanced chips — proves what many at NeurIPS in …
January 30, 2025 9:00 AM USC Games Expo is coming back in May. Image Credit: USC Games USC Games announced its 9th annual USC Games Expo will return to USC’s campus on May 13 with more than 60 student games. USC Trojan students, staff, and games fans are invited to get hands-on with the digital and …
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January 30, 2025 8:00 AM An artifact of the Video Game History Foundation. Image Credit: VGHF The Video Game History Foundation (VGHF), nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation and celebration of the history of video games, has officially launched the VGHF Digital Library. The archive is currently in early access and open to anyone interested in the study of video game history for free at library.gamehistory.org. You can check …
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January 30, 2025 7:00 AM Drake Star’s view of gaming M&A deals in all of 2024. Image Credit: Drake Star Gaming mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and financings in 2024 grew 39% to $27.3 billion in disclosed deal value across over 967 transactions, according to a report by Drake Star Partners. That’s a glimmer of bright …
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Owners of some early Apple Watch models may be eligible for payment from a $20 million class action settlement. Apple recently to settle a lawsuit that claimed some first generation, Series 1, Series 2, and Series 3 Apple Watches had battery swelling issues that could have caused damage to the devices. The company has denied …
New releases to add to your reading list. Much of the first issue of The Seasons, a new series by Rick Remender and Paul Azaceta, plays out like an old-school cartoon. A frenzied character, Spring Seasons, crashes her way through people and stores as she chases a very important letter from her sister that keeps getting …
Apple was apparently developing augmented reality glasses powered by its Mac computers, but it canceled the project before the company could even announce it. According to Bloomberg, Apple scrapped the program this week because the product didn’t perform well when executives tested it and the company kept on changing the features it wanted for the …
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The 2025 NAMM Show is over. Every year music gear manufacturers, ranging from iconic synth brands like Korg, to boutique guitar pedal makers like Walrus Audio, and even companies making fog machines and knobs descend on Anaheim to show off their latest wares. It is chaos in all the ways that you’d expect a convention …
When Wuthering Waves launched about half a year ago on iOS, Android and Windows, there were serious issues on day one. While some can be forgiving when a game launches, especially a live-service game that will get lots of updates, the errors that many experienced were catastrophic. However, developer Kuro Games didn’t give up on …
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For video streamers, another price hike just means it’s Tuesday. For music streaming, however, price increases are bigger deals, and they tend to reverberate for everyone. Take Amazon, which just hiked the price of its individual Music Unlimited plan to $11.99 a month, or $10.99/month for Prime members. The new price is effective immediately for …
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