Published on: 2025-06-05 16:52:20
WhatsApp is getting its own version of OpenAI’s Custom GPTs, Google Gemini’s Gems, and so on. These are custom-made chatbots that can be created without a single line of code and with whom the user can have conversations afterward. Here’s how it’s going to work. WhatsApp to join Meta’s AI Studio offerings According to WABetaInfo (via Tecnoblog), the feature is currently rolling out to a small number of WhatsApp beta testers on iOS and Android. It introduces a new section called “AI Studio,” w
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-06 08:40:34
Video generation is all the rage right now. While last month was all about Google’s Veo 3, which has already threatened to deepfake all of YouTube, make incoherent action movies, and automate game development, the fun (or horror) hasn’t stopped there. Just this week, OpenAI announced that it’s making its Sora video generation model available for free via Bing, which is big news for anyone that’s interested in testing out a video generator but doesn’t actually feel the need to pay for one yet. An
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-09 04:00:00
Independent games studio Emptyvessel announced it has raised $11 million to date, including its earlier seed round and latest Series A round. The game’s debut trailer has attracted over 1.9 million views on YouTube and work continues to progress towards a future gameplay reveal. The new funds will fuel ongoing development of the studio’s inaugural title, Defect, and expansion of the team. The Series A lead investors include NCSoft and 1AM Gaming, along with Black Phoenix Games, Anurup Joseph,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-10 00:03:11
People Can Fly, the developer of Outriders and Gears of War: Judgement, announced Monday that its ending development on two of its upcoming games due to issues with its publisher and an inability to secure funding to continue development. As part of this decision, People Can Fly will be forced "significantly regroup" and "scale down [its] teams," the studio's CEO Sebastian Wojciechowksi shared in a statement on LinkedIn. The statement doesn't elaborate on how many staff will be impacted by the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-10 04:41:08
Welcome to Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday, broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays and ramblings about video game trends and related topics from me, a reporter who's covered the industry for more than 13 years. The second contains the video game stories from the past week that you need to know about, including some headlines from outside of Engadget. Please enjoy — and I'll see you next week. It’s the week of Summer Game Fest, so I’m mental
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-11 08:27:37
is a reporter who covers the business, culture, and communities of video games, with a focus on marginalized gamers and the quirky, horny culture of video game communities. People Can Fly has announced it has cancelled two in-development projects and will undergo a round of layoffs. “Today we made the very difficult decision to suspend the development of project Gemini and project Bifrost,” wrote People Can Fly CEO Sebastian Wojciechowski on the studio’s LinkedIn page. “As a result we have to
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-12 01:30:00
Moving sucks. Ever since leaving college more than a decade ago, I’ve only lived in apartments, so I’ve had to get good at living small and managing my inventory of belongings before, during, and after a move. A lot of what makes that possible is that I really like decluttering. But it didn’t come naturally — it’s a skill I’ve had to practice, learn, and occasionally fail at. So I thought I might share my experiences here in case you find it helpful for a current or future move. I got good at
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-17 04:46:32
is a reporter who covers the business, culture, and communities of video games, with a focus on marginalized gamers and the quirky, horny culture of video game communities. EA’s Black Panther game has been cancelled. According to reporting from IGN, EA announced the news via an email to employees. IGN also reports that as a result of the cancellation, Cliffhanger Studios has been shut down. Cliffhanger Studios was a new games studio created to develop Black Panther and run by Kevin Stephens wh
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-18 03:45:00
Wheel of Time Games announced the addition of three game industry veterans to beef up its game studio in Montreal. The additions happen as the company is creating a studio of 200 to 300 people to build a triple-A, open world, role-playing game set in the Wheel of Time universe. Craig Alexander, studio head of Wheel of Time Games, the Montreal-based studio developing the title, appointed Lori Hyrup as studio design director, John Lindemuth as studio art director, and Steve Gray as studio techno
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-18 04:00:00
Oncade, a new community-driven platform built to increase studio revenue through strengthening player engagement, raised $4 million. Oncade is revamping the game distribution model by shifting from the traditional one-sided platform struggle to a direct-to-consumer, off-platform game store powered by community engagement. By bypassing the “crushing 30% platform fees” charged by platform owners, Oncade said it gives studios the power to reclaim control over their margins and transform their com
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 12:30:59
Welcome to the initial installment of Video Games Weekly on Engadget. Expect a new story every Monday (yes, we realize today is Tuesday), broken into two parts. The first is a space for short essays, observations and ramblings about video game trends and related topics from me, a reporter who's covered the industry for more than 13 years. The second contains the video game stories from the past week that you need to know about, including some headlines from outside of Engadget. Please enjoy — a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-20 00:00:00
Atlantis Studio has come out of stealth as a privately funded game development studio based in the south of France. Cofounded by industry luminaries Ru Weerasuriya and Nico Augusto, Atlantis Studio brings together a wealth of experience and a passion for crafting innovative gaming experiences. They will focus on immersive games built with Unreal Engine 5. The company is focused on PC and console games. The studio boasts a talented team of game industry veterans who have previously contributed
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-20 00:17:01
Newly independent Amplitude Studios announced today that it has raised €12 million, or around $13.5 million in a Series A funding round. Griffin Gaming Partners led the round with a €10 million investment, with public investment bank Bpifrance also participating. The studio plans to put the funding towards development of its new and in-development titles, including Endless Legend 2, as well as grow out its team and community collaboration. Frankie Zhu, partner at Griffin, said in a statement, “
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-23 08:00:04
Prime Video has consistently delivered the sci-fi goods. Considering the intense competition coming from the likes of heavy-hitters like Disney Plus and Netflix, that's an achievement worth noting. The programming landscape may be crowded but the Amazon-owned streaming service has proven its worth in the genre space by producing a slate of high-concept programs -- from the satirical to the downright dystopian. Science fiction is a genre that appeals to a range of tastes. The folks at Prime Vid
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-24 08:36:10
I don’t usually watch trailers, but Apple TV+ makes it nearly impossible to avoid them with how aggressively it peddles its own content. After the umpteenth time that sharp trumpet note from The Studio’s trailer blared through my TV while I was just trying to watch something else, I gave in. My first thought? Yeah, no. Looks way too over the top. Eleven episodes later, I can confirm: it absolutely is. And it’s glorious. Give it a shot and you’ll thank Sal Saperstein later The Studio wrapped it
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-26 16:00:00
Wildlife Studios and Winners Alliance today announced a major licensing partnership, bringing Naomi Osaka and other stars to the hit mobile game Tennis Clash. Tennis Clash has been played by more than 170 million users worldwide. Through the agreement, Wildlife Studios now holds rights to feature the names, images, and likenesses of select men’s and women’s players, marking the first time officially licensed players will appear in Tennis Clash. Launched in 2019, Tennis Clash is one of the most
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-28 08:09:48
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Gboard currently gives you access to stickers generated in Pixel Studio within a dedicated tab in the sticker picker. New code in the latest Gboard beta suggests that the keyboard app may soon allow users to generate new stickers without opening Pixel Studio. The feature may let users create new stickers within Gboard by uploading a photo or using a text prompt. Google rolled out Pixel Studio’s Gboard integration last year, giving users quick access
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-28 05:30:00
Indian independent game developer UnderDogs Studio revealed the gameplay for its upcoming PS5 and PC game, Mukti with a new gameplay trailer. Mukti is a first-person narrative adventure in the tradition of Gone Home. The events of Mukti are set against the backdrop of a mid-2000s India, putting players in the role of Arya, a young woman searching for her grandfather in a sprawling museum owned by him. Players will piece together the mystery of his disappearance while uncovering harrowing truth
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-28 18:49:15
Hey HN! We're Emir and Waleed from Sim Studio ( https://simstudio.ai ). We did a Show HN a few weeks ago about our open-source project ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43823096 ). Today, we’re launching our hosted platform—a collaborative interface to build and deploy agent workflows. We just removed the waitlist (with 5,000+ people) and you can sign up and access it at: https://simstudio.ai Sim Studio lets you build agents with different models, tools, and custom functions. In minutes, y
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-29 16:30:00
Indian independent game developer UnderDogs Studio revealed the gameplay for its upcoming PS5 and PC game, Mukti with a new gameplay trailer. Mukti is a first-person narrative adventure in the tradition of Gone Home. The events of Mukti are set against the backdrop of a mid-2000s India, putting players in the role of Arya, a young woman searching for her grandfather in a sprawling museum owned by him. Players will piece together the mystery of his disappearance while uncovering harrowing truth
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-01 04:45:00
Android Studio, the integrated development environment (IDE) for Android app developers, is getting an AI upgrade, Google announced at its developer conference, Google I/O 2025, on Tuesday. In addition to the rollout of the latest Gemini 2.5 Pro model, Android Studio is gaining a new “agentic AI” capability called Journeys and will soon introduce an “Agent Mode” for more complex development tasks. Using Gemini, journeys will allow developers to test their app by describing the actions and asse
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-04 13:25:29
If you watch anime, particularly of the shonen variety, you likely know Toei Animation. The studio is best known for adapting popular manga like Dragon Ball and Sailor Moon, and it’s got plenty of work coming out. When those series and films release, some may have been made with artificial intelligence. In Toei’s recently published financial briefing for 2024-2025’s fiscal year, one slide reveals the studio’s invested an undisclosed sum of money into Preferred Networks, a Japanese company with
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-05 08:53:47
Mobile game developer Studio 42 announced this week that it has raised $3.6 million in funding to help develop both its first title and its studio structure. Play Ventures led the round, with GEM Capital and Arcadia Gaming Partners participating. Studio 42’s team of 14 people in four countries, include combined previous experience working with Belka Games, Snap Inc., Playrix and Game Insight. Alexander Bogdanov, Studio 42 CEO, said in a statement, “We are excited to partner with Play Ventures,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-06 18:50:29
Star Wars: Visions has become a darling among fans thanks to its repeated proof that the galaxy, far, far away has plenty of compelling stories to tell beyond the Skywalker saga. Recognizing the adoration for fresh narratives, Lucasfilm is poised to release Star Wars: Visions volume three on Disney+ this fall, with a spin-off series of long stories called Star Wars: Visions Presents coming down the pipeline. One overlooked aspect of Star Wars: Visions‘ rip-roaring success is how it has redefine
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-07 07:23:26
Microsoft has continued to design, manufacture, and sell new Surface hardware since longtime team leader Panos Panay left the company for Amazon in late 2023, including both Intel- and Qualcomm-powered Surface Pro tablets and Surface Laptops. New smaller versions of both of these mainstays were introduced just a couple of weeks ago. But the weirder, more unique parts of the Surface lineup have been mostly neglected since Panay's departure. Late last year, Microsoft discontinued the Surface Stud
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-07 12:23:26
Microsoft has continued to design, manufacture, and sell new Surface hardware since longtime team leader Panos Panay left the company for Amazon in late 2023, including both Intel- and Qualcomm-powered Surface Pro tablets and Surface Laptops. New smaller versions of both of these mainstays were introduced just a couple of weeks ago. But the weirder, more unique parts of the Surface lineup have been mostly neglected since Panay's departure. Late last year, Microsoft discontinued the Surface Stud
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-08 00:00:00
Griffin Gaming Partners, one of the world’s largest venture capital firms focused exclusively on the gaming sector, announced its backing of Super Banana Studios, a new casual game studio. The studio is run by seasoned product and growth leaders Danil Moskovoy and Nikolay Ternovoy. With decades of combined experience at companies like Zeptolab, Voodoo, Tripledot, Popcore, and Playrix, the founders are now channeling their expertise into a bold new venture aimed at expanding the casual puzzle
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-08 00:00:00
is a senior editor and author of Notepad , who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft has been quietly killing off a number of Surface devices over the past few years. At first it was the Surface Headphones and Surface Earbuds that started to disappear, then came news of a changed “hardware portfolio” amid 10,000 job cuts at Microsoft in early 2023. A year later, Microsoft then killed off the Surface Duo and ended production of its innovative Surface S
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-10 20:30:00
Layer, the AI application gateway built specifically for game developers, has raised $6.5 million in seed funding to make next-generation production tools. Layer acts as the glue for game studios to deploy AI quickly and efficiently, with a professional suite of tools to build, manage and refine 2D, 3D and video assets while significantly reducing production time. Layer helps scale content across production pipelines, making it easier to develop and maintain games of all types. It’s got a lot o
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 00:01:04
Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra , the new Marvel action-adventure game, has been delayed. The game was originally slated to release this year but Skydance New Media, the studio developing the game, has announced it will instead come out some time in early 2026. Marvel 1943 was first teaseed in 2021 as the first project under Skydance New Media, a new gaming initiative spearheaded by parent company studio Skydance Media known for films like Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning. Skydance appointed for
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