Game developer RiseAngle has begun harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to streamline and enhance its creative workflow, joining a growing trend of studios embracing AI technology in game design. RiseAngle recently unveiled its AI Game Creator suite, a set of tools meant to make game creation easier...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) recently issued a report listing regulatory concerns around how gaming and virtual reality companies facilitate transactions and collect sensitive data. As “Banking in Video Games and Virtual Worlds” makes clear, the CFPB sees both industries processing transactions and collecting the...
Epic Games proposed Thursday (April 11) that a federal judge require Google to allow greater competition in the distribution of apps for the Android mobile platform. This proposal, which was put forward in a court filing, follows a jury verdict in December 2023 that found...
The next iteration of the internet, Web3, has been around for a while now. Meta’s Reality Labs division — the arm of the tech giant that focuses on metaverse, mixed reality (MR), augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives — is...
March 15, 2024
Artificial intelligence (AI) startup Jabali wants to create a game engine that allows anyone to turn ideas into games without needing to code. “Our mission is to democratize the creation of games,” Vatsal Bhardwaj, Jabali’s founder and CEO, who previously led product development at Microsoft and Meta, told PYMNTS in an interview. The company just […]
August 13, 2019
Video games have changed a lot since the early days of home gaming in the late 1970s and early ’80s. The graphics improved, the games got more expensive and elaborate...
July 19, 2017
New players on the banking scene are bringing a host of changes to the industry. But in some cases, these disruptions are more likely to be met with pushback from...
April 12, 2024
Epic Games proposed Thursday (April 11) that a federal judge require Google to allow greater competition in the distribution of apps for the Android mobile platform. This proposal, which was put forward in a court filing, follows a jury verdict in December 2023 that found that Google had abused its power as a gatekeeper for […]
April 04, 2024
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is monitoring video games and virtual worlds to ensure their compliance with federal consumer financial protection laws. This monitoring comes as a growing number...
December 12, 2023
Google’s court loss this week to Epic Games could also be bad news for Apple. That’s according to a report Tuesday (Dec. 12) from Bloomberg News, which notes that the app...
September 11, 2023
Microsoft-owned gaming platform Xbox is debuting its first co-branded credit card in the U.S. The Barclays-issued Mastercard, announced Monday (Sept. 11), will be available on Sept. 21 exclusively to qualified Xbox Insiders across...
