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This morning, Neon Doctrine co-founder Iain Garner posted a Twitter thread about Platform X, which he did not name but identified as "the operator of a very successful console and does not have Game Pass!" In the thread, Garner criticized not just the lack of promotion it gave indie developers and publishers for their titles, but the choices it made that minimize their ability to move the needle on their own. "Wishlists have no effect, so all your personal marketing means nothing to Platform X,...

Film & Gaming Studios Using Emotionally Expressive AI-Powered Voice Technology By Staff 2 weeks ago Text-to-speech technology was invented in 1968. It was the first time a computer was trained to robotically read words out loud. But what if that digitized voice could sound more human? What if it could express emotions? What if it could be used in movies and video games? That’s exactly what the team behind Sonantic set out to accomplish. Since its founding just two years ago, the UK-based st...

Paris-based video game developer and publisher Quantic Dream has opened a new studio in Montreal. The office will be located in a completely renovated building in the city’s historic Atwater Avenue district. Stéphane D’Astous, the founder of Square Enix-owned studio Eidos Montreal, has been appointed general manager of Quantic Dream’s Montreal studio. Quantic Dream is best known for its work on choice-based, narrative-driven PlayStation games like Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls and...

Trending New year, new indie games. 13-minute read New year, new me writing a list of indie games I am excited to see more of and play. If there’s something that helped me get through all the hardships of 2020, it’s the many video games I loved — over half of which were indie games. It’s getting increasingly difficult to precisely define indie games and our expectations of them. Games that have dominated Game Of The Year lists like last year’s Hades, the League of Legends spin-o...