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Creating Age Appropriate Game Experiences with k-ID

Video games are often regarded as an activity primarily for children.  However, the industry has exploded to reach all demographics.  An older sophisticated audience demands mature content.  Furthermore, many games are played online which opens a Pandora’s Box of privacy and safety concerns for all demographics, but especially for today’s digital youth. To protect children, governments around the world have passed legislation regulating online activities for children.....
Invoke AI

Invoke: Generative AI for Game Development

Overview Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been around as long as the game industry.  However, in the past 2 years there has been an explosion of interest in generative AI (GenAI).  Generative AI is focused on creating content.  By taking existing data and analyzing it, GenAI can produce new content customized to user prompts. Long term, GenAI will impact all industries, but it already has major applications for any content creation inclu.....
SteelSeries: A Leader in High-End Video Game Accessories

SteelSeries: A Leader in High-End Video Game Accessories

Video game consumers are a demanding audience.  Gamers now pay top dollar for premium hardware accessories including keyboards, headsets, controllers, mice and even mousepads.  The market for high-end video game accessories continues to grow at a rapid pace.  After strong growth in 2020 and 2021, there was a downturn in 2022.  However, the new DFC Intelligence forecast pred.....
Google’s Cloud Game Strategy Post Stadia

Google’s Cloud Game Strategy Post Stadia

DFC Intelligence is doing a series of reports and in-depth research on the future of cloud games, live service games and the emergence of games as a service.  As part of this research, we are talking with experts from the leading companies in the industry.  With products like Google Play and YouTube Google has been a behind-the-scenes leader in video games for years. Becoming a leader in AAA games has been more challenging. Early this year Google shut down its cloud game s.....

On AMD’s Do or Die 2016

JUNE 23, 2016 • This is a critical year for Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) Not only has the technology firm just released its 14nm Polaris GPUs, but it will also be introducing its much more competitive Zen Summit Ridge processors later this year including eight-core FX enthusiast CPUs. It is not easy competing directly with the likes of Nvidia Corp. and Intel Corp. but this year AMD is making some major changes to its product strategy. .....

Green Man Gaming Team Leader: Paul Sulyok

MAY 17, 2016 • Since its founding only six years ago, Green Man Gaming has become one of the best known digital distributor of computer games. The exposure came from offering titles at very reasonable prices. At first this was accomplished through a unique digital trade-back service in which PC games could be resold at a discounted price, but in more recent years the online retailer has also gotten into the business of selling legitimate keys to digitally dis.....

Star Stable’s Big Ride

NOV. 10, 2015 • The last five years have seen enormous changes for MMORPGs. Most notably the subscription model has been supplanted by freemium monetization, while game design has moved away from open world exploration to more directed and defined mission activities. Bucking this trend is the privately held Star Stable Entertainment AB, based in Stockholm, Sweden. Star Stable Online is succeeding as a subscription MMORPG that .....

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