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Boston

12 Cool Games We Saw At PAX East 2024

PAX East had smaller developers and games taking the spotlight.

The show didn't feature many big names due to the timing with Game Developers Conference. [ more ]

WIRED

Is AI the Future of NPCs?

AI integration in gaming is expanding with the introduction of generative AI NPCs like Bloom from Ubisoft.

The Game Developers Conference highlighted the industry's focus on AI, including concerns about ethics and the impact on careers of game-makers. [ more ]

www.mercurynews.com

At GDC 2024, tech companies offer a glimpse of AI-powered characters

AI showcased at Game Developers Conference

Convai AI developer tools in gaming industry

AI's transformative impact on video games industry [ more ]

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'Games made by soulless machines': Tech sparks debate over AI stories in video games

AI in video games is evolving to create interactive characters through generative AI technology.

Tech companies are pushing to revolutionize video game storytelling using AI, but face skepticism from game writers. [ more ]

Inverse

3 months ago

Huge New Survey Reveals the Biggest Threats to Video Games in 2024

Developers fear more layoffs to come

Developers are divided on generative AI [ more ]

Ars Technica

DevOps

Video Game History Foundation honors gaming's past with museum-style displays

Trade shows like GDC can showcase not only future game industry trends but also celebrate gaming's history.

VGHF at GDC displayed a curated history exhibit highlighting specific topics like women in gaming and the importance of preserving gaming ephemera. [ more ]

ABC7 San Francisco

San Francisco

GDC: world's largest gaming conference generating over $40 million in economic impact for SF

The Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco is providing a significant economic boost to the city.

Local businesses, such as Bocado Restaurant and The Brickhouse Bar and Grill, are experiencing positive impacts from the influx of visitors attending GDC. [ more ]

Game Informer

3 months ago

Video games

New State Of The Industry Report Provides Developer Thoughts On Layoffs, Acquisitions, A.I., And More

Game developers faced layoffs and challenges in 2023, despite it being a great year for games.

The Game Developers Conference released its State of the Game Industry 2024 report, highlighting insights on AI, layoffs, social media, and game engines. [ more ]

The Verge

11 months ago

AI offers new tools for making games, but developers worry about their jobs

For the most part, AI is exceptionally bad at illustrating hands.They come out six-fingered or four-fingered or, even worse, just some wispy ends that fade into the background.AI has been programming large Western 1940s-era smiles onto people of various cultures.It's been reshaping images we know and refitting them according to prompts.

Mission Local

Mission District

Gamers, unionists rally for Starbucks baristas

Three dozen video game workers gathered in front of Moscone Center today in solidarity with infuriated Starbucks workers across the country.As the latest blow in a series of union-busting controversies, a federal judge earlier this month found that Starbucks had in fact violated labor laws " hundreds of times."

Washington Post

Business

Game developers think the metaverse is bogus, survey shows

The metaverse has been much hyped over the last year.But finding the same enthusiasm among game creators - the people often tasked with building it - is tougher.According to the Game Developer Conference's (GDC) State of the Game Industry 2023 report, which surveyed over 2,300 game developers, game makers don't believe in the promise of the metaverse.

Creative Bloq

Graphic design

Are these photos our first real glimpse of the PSVR 2?

(Image credit: Sony / Future)

Ars Technica

Games

Epic's new motion-capture animation tech has to be seen to be believed

SAN FRANCISCO-Every year at the Game Developers Conference, a handful of competing companies show off their latest motion-capture technology, which transforms human performances into 3D animations that can be used on in-game models.Usually, these technical demonstrations involve a lot of specialized hardware for the performance capture and a good deal of computer processing and manual artist tweaking to get the resulting data into a game-ready state.

www.mercurynews.com

GDC 2023 kicks off with a gathering that's closer to normal

The Game Developers Conference opens this week at San Francisco's Moscone Center, and the gathering is expected to be the closest thing to normal since the pandemic.The attendance is predicted to be about 24,000, below the 2020 mark, but Stephenie Hawkins, director of event production, points to the number of exhibitors and sessions as a healthier outlook.

Washington Post