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I know you have said designers/engineers in the games industry are people that love games (because they could be paid more for the same skills by working in a different industry). Does the same hold true for AAA producers or executives? Do the people making high-level business decisions for big developers/publishers actually like games, or care about the future of games? (in terms other than how it affects the interests of their company/position)

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My most recent executive producer started off as a customer service agent at the studio, and worked his way through QA and production. Another executive producer I worked for started as a customer service agent for Dark Age of Camelot, became a writer, then producer on Warhammer Online, and now he’s doing something else.

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Level up game development insights at AWS re:Invent 2024

AWS Games

Principal Software Engineer Brian Miller; Zynga Principal Software Engineer Chris Vodak and Engineering Manager Ardrian Hardjono; Supercell Sr. Cloud Governance Engineer Toni Syvanen; and Epic Games Technical Director Mattias Jansson.

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Summer 2025 Game Development Student Internship Roundup, Part 2

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Associate Development Manager Co-op/Internship - Summer 2025 (Sports FC QV) Game Product Manager Intern (Summer 2025) Music Intern EA Sports FC Franchise Activation Intern Associate Character Artist Intern Client Engineer Intern Visual Effects Co-Op Associate Environment Artist Co-Op (Summer 2025) Game Design Intern (Summer 2025) Game Design Co-Op (..)

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QORPO brings generative AI features to AneeMate with AWS

AWS Games

Using Amazon Bedrock, developers built an AI agent that analyzes near real-time game data streaming from Amazon Kinesis. Developed using Epic Games Unreal Engine, the game is available for PC as Early Access on the Epic Store, with Steam access and console support coming soon.

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Unreal Engine 5 dedicated server development with Amazon GameLift Anywhere

AWS Games

The recently updated Amazon GameLift Server SDK from Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides an Unreal Engine plugin that is compatible with both Unreal Engine 4 and Unreal Engine 5. plugin into Unreal Engine 5, create an Anywhere fleet, and register your local workstation as a compute resource. Unreal Engine 5.1.0

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Year In Review: Trending Posts of 2022

Nvidia

In this post, the authors examine if an AI agent can design good prefix graphs. Shaping the Future of Graphics with NVIDIA Technologies in Unreal Engine 5. Unreal Engine 5 supports key RTX technologies for developers to propel their games and experiences to deliver cutting-edge content and immersive virtual worlds.

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Autonomous AI Outraces Gran Turismo World Champs

Nvidia

The autonomous AI racing agent, known as Gran Turismo Sophy (GT Sophy), recently beat the world’s best drivers in GT Sport. An offset of machine learning, deep RL in basic terms uses a computational RL agent to make decisions by trial and error to solve a problem. the developers behind GT Sport.

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