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TSR 1.6 Changelog news - Tiberian Sun: Reborn Tiberian Sun: Reborn brings the exciting storyline and epic clashes from the classic Westwood Studios game, Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun to realm of first person shooters, with a twist. Weve remained loyal to the style and feel of the 1999 classic, while integrating content from its expansion Firestorm with a bit of updated history to add to the mix. Built off the W3D engine Westwood Studios built for classics such as Earth & Beyond and Command &...

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...

Splash Damage continues its regular appearance on this page, with four new hires at the company. Diego Llorens Rico First, Diego Llorens Rico joins the studio as an assistant gameplay programmer, Rico previously spent five months working as a game developer for Simedis, working on LapEntryCoach, a laparoscopy simulator. Richard Hayden Still at Splash Damage, Richard Hayden signs on as a lead product manager. Hayden has worked as a product consultant for the past four years, and has previousl...

Dontnod to Ramp Up Self-Publishing Following Tencent Investment Life is Strange developer Dontnod Entertainment to assist in its continued growth and push into self-publishing. The two companies have also entered into a business cooperation agreement, the details of which have not been made public. However, the scale of the investment does give Tencent the opportunity to appoint a representative to Dontnod’s board of directors. The investment is part of a larger capital increase issued by Don...

Published 27 Jan, 2021 Tencents desire to throw cash at game development studios continues. The media conglomerate has now made an investment in Dontnod Entertainment of Life Is Strange and Tell Me Why fame. Its a minority stake, not an acquisition, but represents another developer that Tencent are linking themselves to this year. Dontnod announced the investment today, a total of €30 million (about £26.5 million) which they say "will mainly be used to finance the r...

Tencent secured more mergers and acquisitions in the games space than any other company last year. Thats according to a report by Niko Partners, which shows the Chinese games and technology giant invested in 31 deals related to the games industry. The analysis specialist reports this is a record number for the company, three times more than it managed in 2019 and more than four times higher than the number of M&A deals it did in 2017. Tencents investments were a mix of acquisitions, mergers, m...

Klei Entertainment founder Jamie Cheng announced in a forum post today that the studio has agreed to Tencents purchase of a majority stake in the developer behind Dont Starve, Oxygen Not Included, and Griftlands. In a forum post, Cheng says Klei will retain "full autonomy," and that there will be no changes to staffing, projects, or other operations. "Klei has been around for 15 years, and we have made many changes over the years in order to respond to a changing world," Cheng says. "Consistent...

Warframe developer insists nothing changes creatively after acquisition by Tencent Creatively independent Tencent, a stupidly massive Chinese conglomerate, got a little bigger recently. It added Leyous assets to its portfolio thanks to a new acquisition. Leyou likely isnt a name you recognize, but some of its studios will ring a bell. Most notable, Leyou is the parent company of Digital Extremes, which is the developer of Warframe. Thats right -- the free-to-play darling Warframe is now a Te...

Tencent Holdings has added another group of game developers and publishers through a $1.5B USD acquisition of Leyou Technologies. Leyou

The Chinese tech conglomerate continues its expansion into gaming. Tencent now owns Digital Extremes’ parent company, Leyou Technologies, though the Warframe developer was quick to reminded fans it’ll “remain creatively independent.” The acquisition of Leyou Technologies was sealed with a $1.5 billion deal, and included developers Splash Damage (Gears Tactics) and Athlon (Amazon’s upcoming Lord of the Rings MMO) alongside Digital Extremes. Digital Extremes assures fans Tencent buyou...