Obituary: Jim Ward, Dungeons & Dragons designer, died at age 72
Game Developer
MARCH 19, 2024
Ward joined TSR during Dungeons & Dragons' first boom, and worked on several add-ons for the TTRPG, plus his own science-fantasy game, Metamorphosis Alpha.
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From Buckles to Games: The Journey of Rex Bowden and Africa Games Week
PreMortem.Games
MARCH 6, 2024
Photos by Moe the Photographer Like the sturdy belt and shiny buckle Rex Bowden once helped sell as a child, entrepreneurship is woven into the fabric of this co-founder of Africa Games Week (AGW). His journey began with those humble sales and blossomed into launching his own events business at the tender age of 20. These experiences instilled in him a profound passion for business and empowering African entrepreneurs.
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Sega sells Relic and will cut 240 jobs across UK studios
GamesIndustry.biz
MARCH 28, 2024
Sega has sold Relic Entertainment, and will cut 240 roles across Sega Europe, Creative Assembly and Sega HARDlight Relic is best known for the Company of Heroes and Dawn of War games, and recently developed the new Age of Empires for Microsoft. Relic will transition to an independent studio and will no-longer be part of the Sega group of studios. The majority of the 240 job cuts are across Creative Assembly and Sega Europe, while there will be a ‘small number’ cut from Sega HARDLight
Streamline Evaluation of LLMs for Accuracy with NVIDIA NeMo Evaluator
Nvidia
MARCH 27, 2024
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities, from tackling complex coding tasks to crafting compelling stories to translating natural. Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities, from tackling complex coding tasks to crafting compelling stories to translating natural language. Enterprises are customizing these models for even greater application-specific effectiveness to deliver higher accuracy and improved responses to end users.
The Mirror Godot Powered Engine Goes Open Source
Game From Scratch
MARCH 16, 2024
GameFromScratch.com The Mirror Godot Powered Engine Goes Open Source The Mirror, a game engine first announced the end of 2022 have just made a big announcement at GDC 2024. They are going entirely open source, releasing both their networking backend and the custom fork of Godot Engine they use as a front end, under the MIT open source license. […] The post The Mirror Godot Powered Engine Goes Open Source appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.
Silence from Sony, Remedy, other studios could worsen harassment campaign
Game Developer
MARCH 28, 2024
Dr. Rachel Kowert of Take This breaks down how extremist groups take advantage of the reluctance of some companies to stand up to online harassment.
Keywords tried to make a game using GenAI but said the tech was 'unable to replace talent'
Game Developer
MARCH 13, 2024
'The best results and quality needed can only be achieved by experts in their field utilising GenAI as a new, powerful tool in their creative process.
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Microsoft voluntarily recognizes 600-strong Activision Blizzard QA union
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Switch emulator Yuzu reaches $2.4 million settlement with Nintendo
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Overwatch 2 devs lose bonus pay after Blizzard policy change
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MARCH 25, 2024
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