Global games investment rose 38% from $3.1 billion to $4.3 billion in 2024, according to a report by game venture capital firm Hiro Capital. And if you look at games, mixed reality, and sports tech, the numbers showed over $10 billion was invested in those categories in 2024, based on data from Dealroom that was[…..] […]
‘Anora’ bags top honour at Annual Producers Guild Awards; ‘The Wild Robot’ emerges as best animated production The Producers Guild of America (PGA) hosted the 36th Annual Producers Guild Awards at The Fairmont Century Plaza in Century City. The Wild Robot bagged the award for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures alongside other winners[…..] […]
Dreamworks’ The Wild Robot, won Best Feature, along with eight more categories at the 52nd Annie Awards celebration Saturday night on the campus of UCLA. In addition to Best Feature, The Wild Robot also took home an Annie for Best FX- Feature (Derek Cheung, Michael Losure, David Chow, Nyoung Kim, Steve Avoujageli), Best Character Animation[…..] […]
The new space will foster growth and international collaborations. Multi award-winning and BAFTA-nominated independent producer Paper Owl Films has opened a new studio in Belfast to meet the needs of the company’s growth and strategy goals and to further expand its roster of in-house productions and strategic international partnerships. Paper Owl is currently in production[…..] […]
It’s showtime! Join us in welcoming Emma Kidwell as she steps onto GDC’s Main Stage to host the 2025 Independent Games Festival Awards, the premier event for recognizing outstanding indie game achievements. It’s Your Time: Sign Up for GDC 2025! Emma Kidwell is a writer currently at Firaxis working on Sid Meier’s Civilization 7. Her[…..] […]
Intel will showcase solutions across network infrastructure, ushering in a new era of AI automation. At MWC Barcelona 2025, the world’s largest connectivity event, Intel will showcase innovations that enable peak performance and efficiency across network infrastructure and share momentum across Intel® Core™ Ultra processors and enterprise AI PC adoption. Demonstrations will span breakthroughs in[…..] […]
Chaos has released the second update to the public beta of V-Ray for Blender, adding improvements to light management, proxy support, and rendering efficiency. The update includes the addition of a Lights list to the LightSelect render channel, providing users with better control over individual light contributions. The V-Ray Proxy import process has been fixed,[…..] […]
Matrix multiplication and attention mechanisms are the computational backbone of modern AI workloads. While libraries like NVIDIA cuDNN provide highly optimized implementations, and frameworks such as CUTLASS offer deep customization, many developers and researchers need a middle ground that combines performance with programmability. The open-source Triton compiler on the NVIDIA Blackwell architecture addresses this need[…..] […]
The UK’s Film and TV Charity has said the local industry is at risk of a “mass exodus” of workers due, in part, to a mental health crisis exacerbated by the production downturn and lack of support. The organisation launched its full report from its 2024 Looking Glass Survey which previously revealed that 35% of[…..] […]
Exhibit operator to open permanent facility in Tokyo in March Singaporean entertainment group Neon Group says its sales are growing by more than 20% a year, driven by the popularity of its immersive experiences among young consumers. Ron Tan, CEO of Neon, which operates exhibitions using intellectual property drawing on pop culture and history, said[…..] […]
