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Gaming Firms Use AI Development Tools as Nintendo Bucks the Trend
artificial intelligence // October 01, 2024

The gaming industry is rapidly embracing artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tools, with companies like Gaxos.ai, PlayStation and Series Entertainment leading the charge. Meanwhile, Nintendo stands apart, with legendary designer Shigeru Miyamoto confirming the company has yet to make plans to incorporate AI into its game creation...

Reshaping Gaming Landscape: Meta Embraces, Nintendo Resists, Sony AI Races
artificial intelligence // July 09, 2024

As artificial intelligence (AI) transforms the gaming industry, companies are taking divergent paths. While Meta bets on AI to revitalize its metaverse dreams and Sony’s AI racer outperforms humans in Gran Turismo, Nintendo stands firm in its commitment to traditional game development, highlighting the complex...

Epic Games Reportedly Eyeing Subscription Launch in Race for Gamers’ Loyalty
Subscriptions // January 22, 2024

As gaming consoles and game developers alike compete for consumers’ recurring spending, Fortnite parent company Epic Games is reportedly looking into launching its own subscription service.   According to Game Rant, a new leak shows that the video game and software developer and publisher may soon announce...

Xbox Making Billion-Dollar Game Pass Bet as Competition Heats Up
Subscriptions // December 04, 2023

Xbox is seeing its massive investment in video game content pay off, as more of gaming comes to rely on subscription models. In an interview with Windows Central at convention Comic-Con Experience (CCXP), Phil Spencer, CEO of Microsoft Gaming and head of Xbox, spoke to...

Quick Reads
Former Nintendo of America President Says Smaller Companies, Not Facebook Will Advance Metaverse

March 13, 2022
Reggie Fils-Aime, a gaming industry veteran and former president and chief operating officer of Nintendo of America, has reservations about the metaverse, Bloomberg wrote Saturday (March 12). He compared it to the cloud five years ago and the internet when it was starting to catch on, as it seems that every company is now trying […]

Nintendo Says Hacked Accounts Could Total 300,000

June 09, 2020
The number of Nintendo accounts compromised by hackers was nearly double the amount reported two months ago, according to TechCrunch. The Japanese gaming company originally announced in April that 160,000...

Taiwan Approves $2B Stimulus To Pad Coronavirus Effects, China Sees eCommerce Boom

February 25, 2020
The parliament in Taiwan has approved a $2 billion stimulus package to help soften the effects of the coronavirus on the region’s economy, according to Reuters. Taiwan is heavily export-reliant,...

Nintendo Brings Back Popular Gaming System

May 14, 2018
Bringing a popular classic gaming system back to market, Nintendo said that its NES Classic will be available for sale again this summer. The company said that consumers will be...