Crypto gaming and gambling campaigns are the most expensive way to acquire users with existing crypto wallets, ranking highest in cost among all sectors of the crypto industry, recent data shows. “Gaming and gambling campaigns are the most expensive, with a median CPW of $8.74 and a lower quartile of $3.40,” Web3 marketing firm Addressable...
This new training framework simulates a potential pipeline incident using AI and a gaming platform. Credit: Donna Malak/Texas A&M Engineering Researchers and industry partners are looking to create a game-like training tool using artificial intelligence (AI) to make pipeline safety training more effective. The Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center (MKO) and EnerSys Corporation are...
SINGAPORE – Mr Aloysious Tan received numerous “complaints” about a game he and his classmates had designed for their final-year project, but he could not have been happier. “Kids who played our game would ask us why it was so difficult to get around,” recalled the 20-year-old Republic Polytechnic (RP) student from the design for...
Games industry mergers and acquisitions in Q1 of 2025 rose to $6.6 billion, their highest level in over a year, driven by activity in the mobile sector. That big number was partly down to Scopely’s $3.5 billion acquisition of Niantic’s games business, including the likes of Pokémon GO. That’s according to a newsletter by gaming-focused...
Coral, coral, coral, as far as my mechanical eyes can see. I didn’t know quite what to expect when building camps to claim territories and plonking down coral spreaders in my role as leader of a faction of part-mech, part-tendrilly oddities, but it certainly wasn’t anything so drastic as half the world becoming carpeted in...
Illustration by Natalie Rhim I will not lie to you (at least in this sentence), but things are quite dire in the realm of money, and especially video games. Many people are up in arms over the recently announced tariffs, as it’s expected that many games will only become more expensive. Some people hone in...
No one wants to spend more than they have to right now…meaning that it might have been an opportune time for AMD to debut its latest Ryzen 8000 Core HX mobile processors for gaming notebooks, which lack some of the features of the Ryzen 9000 series. Essentially, the new Ryzen 8000 HX series, known as...
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A 32-year-old Victorian man has been sentenced to nearly 12 years in prison and ordered to pay more than $850,000 to the Commonwealth after creating and selling an online video game that simulated child sexual abuse. The man, who was living in Highton, Geelong was arrested in August 2023 after a joint investigation by the...
Aavegotchi, a non-fungible token (NFT) protocol focused on Web3 gaming, has opted to abandon blockchain network Polygon and “go all-in” on Base, an Ethereum layer-2 scaling chain, according to the results of an onchain vote. On April 8, Aavegotchi’s community members voted 93.5% in favor of a proposal to “Make Aavegotchi Based Again” by deprecating...
