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Carbonated Inc. names former Puny Human CEO as its new Chief Development Officer

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Wednesday, April 3, 2024

Mike Sanders, the former CEO of Puny Human, which closed its doors after 16 years, has been appointed the Chief Development Officer of Carbonated.

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  • Mike Sanders, the former CEO of Puny Human, which closed its doors after 16 years, has been appointed the Chief Development Officer of Carbonated.
  • The studio raised $8.5 million for its mobile squad-based shooter in 2020 and another $11 million in March of this year.
  • In October 2023, Puny Human announced that it would close its doors before the end of the year, assisting in new roles for employees at other companies.
  • Later, Puny Human assisted or co-developed titles like The Bard’s Tale IV, Wasteland 3, Trover Saves the Universe, and The Callisto Protocol.

NVIDIA Digital Human Technologies Bring AI Characters to Life

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Monday, March 18, 2024

“NVIDIA offers developers a world-class set of AI-powered technologies for digital human creation,” said John Spitzer, vice president of developer and performance technologies at NVIDIA.

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  • “NVIDIA offers developers a world-class set of AI-powered technologies for digital human creation,” said John Spitzer, vice president of developer and performance technologies at NVIDIA.
  • “These technologies may power the complex animations and conversational speech required to make digital interactions feel real.”
    The digital human technologies suite includes language, speech, animation and graphics powered by AI:
    NVIDIA ACE — technologies that help developers bring digital humans to life with facial animation powered by NVIDIA Audio2Face ™ and speech powered by NVIDIA Riva automatic speech recognition (ASR) and text-to-speech (TTS).
  • To showcase the new capabilities of its digital human technologies, NVIDIA worked across industries with leading developers, such as Hippocratic AI, Inworld AI and UneeQ, on a series of new demonstrations.
  • For GTC, NVIDIA collaborated with Hippocratic AI to extend its solution to use NVIDIA ACE microservices, NVIDIA Audio2Face along with NVIDIA Animation graph and NVIDIA Omniverse™ Streamer Client to show the potential of a generative AI healthcare agent avatar.

Game Developers Conference 2024 Successfully Brought Together Nearly 30,000 Attendees for a Week of Connecting and Learning

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Wednesday, March 27, 2024

GDC 2024 featured 1,000+ speakers across 730 sessions, workshops, roundtable discussions in addition to networking opportunities.

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  • GDC 2024 featured 1,000+ speakers across 730 sessions, workshops, roundtable discussions in addition to networking opportunities.
  • “In light of emerging generative AI technologies, layoffs and evolving working conditions, the Game Developers Conference will continue to provide developers with the key understandings and relationships to forge their way forward.
  • GDC 2024 honored the top developers of the past year with the 26th annual Independent Games Festival Awards and the 24th annual Game Developers Choice Awards (GDCA).
  • For more details on the Game Developers Conference, please visit the GDC’s official website , or subscribe to regular updates via Facebook or Twitter .

SmartRecruiters' Global Footprint: Facilitating 100 Million Job Applications Signals Strong International Growth

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Thursday, April 4, 2024

With a steadfast commitment to innovation and customer success, SmartRecruiters continues to set new benchmarks in business growth, customer acquisition, and product development.

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  • With a steadfast commitment to innovation and customer success, SmartRecruiters continues to set new benchmarks in business growth, customer acquisition, and product development.
  • The company's unparalleled success is exemplified by its recent milestone: facilitating over 100 million job applications through its easy-apply process in the last twelve months alone.
  • This extraordinary feat highlights the efficiency and scale of SmartRecruiters' platform, and its profound impact on the global job market.
  • "This milestone underscores the significant results and growth that our platform enables for customers," says Rob Symons, Chief Sales Officer at SmartRecruiters.

SmartRecruiters' Global Footprint: Facilitating 100 Million Job Applications Signals Strong International Growth

Retrieved on: 
Thursday, April 4, 2024

With a steadfast commitment to innovation and customer success, SmartRecruiters continues to set new benchmarks in business growth, customer acquisition, and product development.

Key Points: 
  • With a steadfast commitment to innovation and customer success, SmartRecruiters continues to set new benchmarks in business growth, customer acquisition, and product development.
  • The company's unparalleled success is exemplified by its recent milestone: facilitating over 100 million job applications through its easy-apply process in the last twelve months alone.
  • This extraordinary feat highlights the efficiency and scale of SmartRecruiters' platform, and its profound impact on the global job market.
  • "This milestone underscores the significant results and growth that our platform enables for customers," says Rob Symons, Chief Sales Officer at SmartRecruiters.

With 2 Million Pre-registrations, the Fast-Paced Meme Trading Card Game "Cards Ahoy!" is Officially Live Worldwide

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Wednesday, March 27, 2024

", developed by Metalist Game, has arrived worldwide and is available now to download and free to play on iOS and Android.

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  • ", developed by Metalist Game, has arrived worldwide and is available now to download and free to play on iOS and Android.
  • During the testing phase, the game already sparked enthusiastic responses across multiple social platforms, including YouTube, Twitter, and Discord.
  • The surge of related live streams, tutorial videos, and game activation code trading further attested to the passion within its player community.
  • These seasoned developers integrated classic elements from card games such as Marvel Duel, Hearthstone, and Onmyoji, enriching "Cards Ahoy!"

"Cards Ahoy!" x "NARAKA": The First Shot of Chain Game Revival with a 90% Retention Rate

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Friday, March 15, 2024

In this early stage of the bull market, a blockbuster game with a retention rate as high as 90% was born — "Cards Ahoy!".

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  • In this early stage of the bull market, a blockbuster game with a retention rate as high as 90% was born — "Cards Ahoy!".
  • is a Web3 card game developed by the seasoned team at Metalist Game.
  • comprises developers from major gaming companies such as NetEase, Ubisoft, Blizzard, and Riot Games, providing robust technical and creative backing.
  • The game achieved nearly 180,000 hours of online playtime, with over 40 million collisions, and a ten-day retention rate of 47%.

ANNOUNCING "OPEN" AN IMMERSIVE MULTI-GENRE METAVERSE, BATTLE ROYALE EXPERIENCE IN DEVELOPMENT FOR PC AND CURRENT GEN PLATFORMS

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Monday, March 11, 2024

LOS ANGELES and STOCKHOLM, March 11, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- From recently announced publisher Readyverse Studios in partnership with developer Walker Labs, comes OPEN, the first AAA quality metaverse experience interoperable with AAA IP that leverages web3 technology.

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  • The third-person battle royale experience OPEN will be the hero experience in The Readyverse.
  • The Readyverse is a next-gen immersive and interoperable platform for discovering metaverse games and experiences.
  • A first glimpse of OPEN was debuted in a trailer today by Readyverse Studios Co-Founders at SXSW; watch here .
  • Enter OPEN's immersive multiverse filled with nostalgia-infused biomes featuring characters and cultural legends across iconic franchises.

FOCUS ENTERTAINMENT: FOCUS ENTERTAINMENT becomes PULLUP ENTERTAINMENT on 1 April 2024

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Wednesday, March 13, 2024

PARIS, FRANCE – 28 February 2024 - FOCUS ENTERTAINMENT (FR0012419307 - ALFOC) is changing its name to PULLUP ENTERTAINMENT effective from 1 April 2024 and implementing a new organisation structure to support the Group’s ambitions.

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  • PARIS, FRANCE – 28 February 2024 - FOCUS ENTERTAINMENT (FR0012419307 - ALFOC) is changing its name to PULLUP ENTERTAINMENT effective from 1 April 2024 and implementing a new organisation structure to support the Group’s ambitions.
  • The Company's shareholders today voted in favour of changing the company name from FOCUS ENTERTAINMENT to PULLUP ENTERTAINMENT effective from 1 April 2024.
  • A NEW ORGANISATION STRUCTURE TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF PULLUP ENTERTAINMENT, EFFECTIVE FROM 1 APRIL
    On 2 January, Geoffroy Sardin, with 25 years of experience at Ubisoft Entertainment, took up the position of Deputy Chief Executive Officer for all the business activities of the PULLUP ENTERTAINMENT Group.
  • Published by FOCUS ENTERTAINMENT, the highly anticipated Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 [5] , a cult license of Games Workshop, will be released on 9 September 2024.

Blockchain gaming ecosystem Crystal Fun secured $5M seed funding, and initiated first AAA game OUTER Testing II

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Tuesday, February 27, 2024

A year of innovation and development has transformed Crystal Fun from its origins as Crystal Lab, a blockchain gaming studio, into a blockchain ecosystem platform.

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  • A year of innovation and development has transformed Crystal Fun from its origins as Crystal Lab, a blockchain gaming studio, into a blockchain ecosystem platform.
  • Crystal Fun is fervently crafting the future of Web3 gaming, championing a "play-first" Blockchain Gaming ecosystem ethos.
  • By remedying the shortcomings of Web2 gaming with blockchain ingenuity, Crystal Fun is committed to developing deeply engaging blockchain gaming projects, promising an unparalleled gaming encounter.
  • Moreover, with AI integration, players are not just participants but creators within the gaming ecosystem, enriching the Crystal Fun universe with diversity and depth.