Venture Beat

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The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) found that 76% of U.S. kids are asking for video games as gifts for the holiday season.Read More

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Neon has raised $14 million in funding to build its direct-to-consumer digital store platform to help make game companies more independent.Read More

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Box debuts its largest set of updates ever, with agent driven enterprise AI data studio and no code apps.Read More

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Fastino emerges from stealth with $7 million in pre-seed funding to advance task optimized enterprise AI models that don’t require a GPU to run.Read More

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Georgia Tech has joined Apple’s initiative aimed at preparing students for hardware technology, computer architecture and chip design.Read More

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Lightspeed Studios, a division of Tencent, said that it has established Lightspeed Japan Studio, a new game development studio headed by game director Hideaki Itsuno. The studio will be focused on the development of original triple-A action game titles, marking a major step in Lightspeed Studios’ global expansion. The new studio will have offices i…Read More

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Animoca Brands has raised an additional $10 millino for Mocaverse, a platform for building an open metaverse.Read More

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While several companies offer LLM-powered tools for data analysis, Connecty claims to stand out with its context graph-based approach.Read More

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Nintendo’s famous game designer Shigeru Miyamoto showed off the Donkey Kong Country area at Super Nintendo World.Read More