"Tencent and Guillemot Family to Consider Ubisoft Buyout!" Rumors are swirling around a potential acquisition of Ubisoft by its original founding family, the Guillemots, in partnership with Chinese tech giant Tencent. If successful, this takeover could bring significant changes to the future of the company and its popular game franchises. Do you think this move will positively impact Ubisoft and its games? Share your thoughts! #Ubisoft #Tencent #GamingNews #Buyout #GuillemotFamily #GamingIndustry

🤯 What Was Once Sci-Fi is Now Reality! ⚠️ WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT: Don't play until the end to avoid graphic content from The Running Man film. This is SPARK, a brand-new AI model that can create 3D face reconstructions from multiple, unconstrained portrait videos and enable real-time tracking on unseen footage. It’s the result of a collaboration between Technicolor, Inria, and the Max Planck Institute. SPARK allows the creation of a relightable face avatar from multiple monocular videos—bringing sci-fi-like technology into the real world. What makes SPARK truly special is its precise face tracking, which can be used for face editing and visual effects IN REAL-TIME! Tasks that would typically require manual 3D modeling or complex scanning sessions of actors can now be automated! 🔝 This technology opens up endless possibilities in professional fields like FX, virtual production, 3D modeling, and gaming, but is not exempt of many ethical concerns. 🚩 This time, the potential for misuse, especially in altering real-time footage for fake news and deep fakes, is completely real in the wrong hands. ⚠️ As a fan of sci-fi and dystopian films, many of them have warned us about its risks. I specially remember "The Running Man", where they faked the death of Ben Richards by overlaying his face in real time with what the called "Digital Matte Tracking" 📌 Link to the model paper and samples in comments! Code is not yet available! Content Credits: © The Running Man, 1987. TAFT Entertainment Pictures / Keith Barish Productions. #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation#Future

Try improving your aim with XGUN, a cool gaming controller that looks like a gun. You can also use it as a traditional controller thanks to its rotating grip: #games #gamenews #videogames #tech #PS5 #Switch

Microsoft is planning a new round of layoffs, which will affect around 650 employees. The two rounds of massive layoffs at Microsoft this year have affected more than 2,500 staff: https://80.lv/articles/microsoft-to-lay-off-another-650-gaming-employees/ #Xbox #Blizzard #Microsoft #layoff #gameindustry

Star Wars Outlaws' developer compared the size of the game's planets with zones from Assassin's Creed Odyssey and revealed the time required to cross certain planets. #gamedev #gaming #StarwarsOutLaws #gameindustry

Starting with the next season, Bethesda Game Studios's Fallout 76 will be updated from Scoreboard to a Season Pass system with extra rewards available to the Fallout 1st members. #fallout #fallout76 #bethesda #games #videogames #gamedev #gamedevelopment #gameindustry #gamenews #gaming

Steam Deck's gaming library explodes with over 14,000 compatible titles, with an increasing number of games swiftly being added and verified.

A group of American parents has filed a lawsuit against Roblox, accusing the company of targeting gaming addictions of their kids and exploiting them. #games #videogames #gameindustry #roblox

SuperGears Games' Co-Founder and CEO Yasin Demirden has joined 80 Level to provide a behind-the-scenes look at Racing Kingdom, an ambitious Unity-powered racing game that aims to redefine the mobile gaming landscape.

Check out how this nostalgic indie gothic retro co-op shooter looks on a CRT screen. Godot Engine #godotengine #godot #GunmetalGothic #CRT #indiedev hashtag#gamedev #gamedevelopment #retrogaming #retrogames #games #videogames