Dean Takahashi

4 weeks ago | venturebeat.com | Dean Takahashi

Tencent has invested $1.25 billion in a new Ubisoft operating division that includes the core games Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six brands. Daily insights on business use cases with VB Daily If you want to impress your boss, VB Daily has you covered. We give you the inside scoop on what companies are doing with generative AI, from regulatory shifts to practical deployments, so you can share insights for maximum ROI.

4 weeks ago | venturebeat.com | Dean Takahashi

Amazon Luna unveiled a multi-year agreement with big game publisher Electronic Arts to bring many of its top games to the Luna cloud gaming service. Luna is also expanding to new countries. Starting today, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, and Dead Space are available to Luna+ subscribers, with more games coming soon.

4 weeks ago | venturebeat.com | Dean Takahashi

The ESA Foundation celebrated its 23rd annual Nite to Unite fundraiser for children on March 18, raising $1.25 million. The funds raised will support the foundation’s grants and scholarships for the next generation of game makers and charitable organizations with science, technology, engineering, arts and math (STEAM) youth programs. The event also honored Riot Games as the Champion Award honoree for 2025.

4 weeks ago | venturebeat.com | Dean Takahashi

Nintendo unveiled its Virtual Game Cards for the Nintendo Switch, a new way to share digital games coming in late April. It’s a new way to use digital games across Switch systems. With game cards, you can put a physical card into a Switch and change it to another system. The Virtual Game Card makes digital games just as flexible. The company made the announcement during its Nintendo Direct event, ahead of next week’s big Nintendo Switch 2 showcase on April 2.

4 weeks ago | venturebeat.com | Dean Takahashi

At the Game Developers Conference, Unity said that developers can expect enhanced performance and stability, expanded platform support, and new AI-powered workflows in the three Unity 6 updates planned for 2025. The first update Unity 6.1, lands in April. It’s all part of Unity’s effort to be a more reliable partner for game developers, said Matthew Bromberg, CEO of Unity, in an interview with GamesBeat.