Shawn Pierre, the chairperson of the Independent Games Festival, opened the Independent Games Festival Awards with a plea to support game developers.Read More
Monster Hunter Wilds was February’s big success on the sales charts, though by no means the only one, according to industry-tracking firm Circana. Several games launched this month have broken onto the U.S. bestsellers chart, with Monster Hunter Wilds taking the top spot. However, it wasn’t enough to offset the continued decline of sales on the sales charts, which continue to be in the negatives — particularly the hardware sales. February 2025 Dollar Sales, Millions
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More In a Washington policy landscape increasingly dominated by calls for minimal AI regulation, Hugging Face is making a distinctly different case to the Trump administration: open-source and collaborative AI development may be America’s strongest competitive advantage. The AI platform company, which hosts more than 1.5 million public models across diverse domains, has submitted its recommendations for
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Nvidia has released Cosmos-Transfer1, an innovative AI model that enables developers to create highly realistic simulations for training robots and autonomous vehicles. Available now on Hugging Face, the model addresses a persistent challenge in physical AI development: bridging the gap between simulated training environments and real-world applications. “We introduce Cosmos-Transfer1, a conditional world generation model that
Netflix Games did a panel on the inspirations behind big-effort games at Netflix and the shows they’re based on. Jason Altman, head of transmedia at Netflix, led a panel at Netflix Games’ side event at the Game Developers Conference. Bill Jackson of Netflix Games said Squid Game Unleashed was a huge opportunity, but he added, “We knew had to get it right.” He said the show was quite dark and the game team decided they
Nvidia announced that Nvidia Blackwell hardware will accelerate by 50 times the big computer-aided software engineering firms’ software for digital twins. The vendors include Ansys, Altair, Cadence, Siemens and Synopsys. With such accelerated software, along with Nvidia CUDA-X libraries and blueprints to optimize performance such as automotive, aerospace, energy, manufacturing and life sciences can significantly reduce product development time, cut costs and increase design accuracy while maintaining energy efficiency. “CUDA-accelerated physical simulation on Nvidia Blackwell
Nvidia announced the Nvidia Omniverse Blueprint for Earth-2 weather analytics to accelerate the development of more accurate weather forecasting. Climate-related weather events have had a $2 trillion impact on the global economy over the last decade, the company said. The new Omniverse Blueprint equips users with the latest technologies to help global organizations improve risk management and disaster preparedness. The Nvidia Omniverse Blueprint for Earth-2 weather analytics offers reference workflows — including Nvidia GPU acceleration
Nvidia today announced the Nvidia RTX Pro Blackwell series — a new generation of workstation and server graphics processing units. Nvidia said the GPUs redefine workflows for AI, technical, creative, engineering and design professionals with accelerated computing, AI inference, ray tracing and neural rendering technologies. The company unveiled the news during the keynote speech of Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, at the GTC 2025 event. For everything from agentic AI, simulation, extended reality, 3D design
Nvidia said the big industrial software and service providers are integrating Omniverse into their platforms to accelerate physical AI.Read More
Nvidia said it is building a Boston-based research center to provide cutting-edge technologies to advance quantum computing.Read More