Topic: future plans
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Fish Audio secures $50M seed for AI voice models targeting creators and enterprises
Fish Audio offers a library of over 15,000 natural language controls for voice generation, serving both creative professionals and enterprises, and has attracted 8 million users with $21 million in annual recurring revenue. The startup has secured $50 million in seed funding and recently automate...
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Rayman's 30th Anniversary Edition Marks Series Comeback, More News Soon
Ubisoft's CEO has declared the recent "Rayman: 30th Anniversary Edition" as the first step in a major franchise revival, with more announcements planned soon. The series has been largely dormant since "Rayman Legends" over a decade ago, making this compilation a strategic shift to reintroduce the...
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ARC Raiders: What's Coming in Early 2026
ARC Raiders' 2026 roadmap promises regular monthly updates to expand the game's world, narrative, and challenges, ensuring a dynamic experience for players. The immediate future focuses on an "Escalation" phase, where players face lingering extreme weather, resource scarcity, and an expanding ARC...
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ASUS Clarifies RTX 5070 Ti & 5060 Ti 16GB Specs
ASUS has confirmed that the RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB are not discontinued and remain active products in their lineup. The cards' scarcity is due to industry-wide supply constraints on memory components, causing production delays and sporadic availability. ASUS is working with its supply ...
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Netflix Adds Live Interactive Voting to Shows
Netflix is introducing real-time voting features for live programming, allowing viewers to directly influence show outcomes through their TV or mobile device during broadcasts. The interactive system was tested on "Dinner Time Live with David Chang" and will be integrated into the upcoming reviva...
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Magic Leap & Google Unveil New AR Glasses Prototype
Magic Leap and Google have extended their strategic alliance for three years, showcasing a new HUD glasses prototype that combines Magic Leap's optical expertise with Google's software to advance augmented reality eyewear. After initial consumer market struggles with high costs and limited field ...
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Canceled Game Concord Is Being Revived by Developers
Concord, an online shooter by Firewalk Studios and Sony, was quickly withdrawn from sale due to poor commercial performance and low player counts, leading to studio closure. A team of hobbyist programmers is reverse-engineering the game to make it playable again, overcoming challenges like anti-t...
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Why Google Gemini Has No Ads: Building Trust in Your AI Assistant
Google DeepMind's CEO states there are no current plans to place ads in the Gemini AI assistant, emphasizing the need to maintain user trust in a personal technology relationship. He distinguishes AI assistants from search engines, arguing that ads are logical in search where intent is declared, ...
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Warhammer 2026 Preview: Your First Reveal Show of the Year
2026 is a major year for Warhammer, with key releases like the Maggotkin of Nurgle and journeys to Ultramar and Grand Cathay already announced. The year's first major preview event will set the tone, revealing new miniatures, narratives, and updates across Warhammer 40,000, Age of Sigmar, and The...
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Inside Gamescom: How Cologne Becomes the World's Gaming Capital
Gamescom 2025 broke attendance records with over 350,000 visitors and featured 1,500 exhibitors from 72 countries, expanding its entertainment and indie zones. The event highlighted extensive hardware showcases and collaborations, such as the Asus ROG Xbox Ally, offering hands-on demos and emphas...
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Clair Obscur Devs Detail Nintendo Switch 2 Port Challenges
Sandfall Interactive has not ruled out a Nintendo Switch 2 version of "Clair Obscur: Expedition 33", but developers cite significant technical challenges due to the console's lower power compared to PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. The game's use of Unreal Engine 5 creates compatibility issues, as many o...
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How AI Personality Became Cognition’s Competitive Advantage
AI startup Cognition has acquired Poke, a conversational AI assistant known for its human-like texting style, for a "low nine figures" to integrate Poke's personality with Cognition's coding assistant Devin. Poke's key appeal is its ability to engage users with slang, humor, and a friendly tone, ...
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PS5 Marathon Sales Fall Short of Expectations
Marathon's commercial launch has been subdued, selling an estimated 1.2 million copies and generating $55 million in revenue since its March 5 release, with the vast majority of sales on Steam. Player engagement has been modest, with daily active users declining from a 478,000 peak, and only abou...
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Call of Duty Ditches Back-to-Back Modern Warfare & Black Ops Releases
Activision is shifting its Call of Duty release strategy to move away from consecutive games from the same sub-series, aiming to provide a distinct experience with each annual installment. The change follows mixed reception and internal concerns about franchise fatigue, with the publisher pledgin...
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Power Cut at Russian Spaceport After Unpaid Bills
The Vostochny Cosmodrome, a key Russian spaceport project since 2011, has halted construction due to unpaid electricity bills, continuing its history of setbacks including worker protests and corruption scandals. Despite ongoing issues, the cosmodrome has achieved operational milestones with two ...
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Wreckreation Developer Three Fields Entertainment Issues Studio-Wide Redundancy Notice
Three Fields Entertainment has laid off its entire staff after the financially unsuccessful launch of its game *Wreckreation*, which failed to generate immediate revenue. The studio's closure resulted from a lack of ongoing publisher support and funding, halting all planned post-launch developmen...
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Fallout Season 2 Teams With Fallout 76 for The Ghoul In-Game Update
Bethesda Game Studios is collaborating with Amazon to release "Burning Springs," a major free DLC for Fallout 76 that integrates elements from the Fallout TV series, including a new region and characters. The update features Walton Goggins as The Ghoul, who will serve as a quest-giver for bounty ...
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Wise shares fall after US regulator rejects trust bank charter bid
The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency rejected Wise's bid for a national trust bank charter, causing its shares to drop roughly 10% and blocking its most ambitious US expansion plan to access the Federal Reserve's payment systems directly. The OCC cited compliance gaps and "historical ...
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Lightspeed's newest hire? Found via Instagram DM.
Lightspeed hired tech content creator Claire Zau, who has over 100,000 TikTok and 250,000 Instagram followers, to make tech trends accessible to broader audiences and connect with future founders. The firm's podcast "Lightwork," co-hosted by CMO Josh Machiz, fills a gap left by shrinking traditio...
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Xbox Game Pass Pricing Revamp Under Consideration, Report Says
New Microsoft Gaming leadership is exploring strategies to make the Xbox ecosystem more accessible, including potential new, lower-priced subscription tiers for Xbox Game Pass. Discussions include evaluating methods like ad-supported tiers and potential future subscription bundles with partners l...
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