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China’s game engine Cocos raises $50M, goes beyond games

TechCrunch

Cocos Technologies, a China-based game engine provider that has been around since 2010, just announced it has picked up $50 million in a Series B funding round in a bid to work on development and move beyond games. It’s also making forays into non-game scenarios like online education and autonomous driving.

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Rec Room raises $145M at a $3.5B valuation for its user-generated, immersive gaming platform

TechCrunch

On the heels of Roblox hitting it big with its platform for user-created gaming content, another startup has landed a major round of funding to build out its own user-generated platform aimed at immersive experiences. billion valuation. (To There are some 12 million rooms on the platform already, Rec Room said.

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How W4 plans to monetize the Godot game engine using Red Hat’s open-source playbook

TechCrunch

A new company from the creators of the Godot game engine is setting out to grab a piece of the $200 billion global video game market — and to do so, it’s taking a cue from commercial open source software giant Red Hat. But first… what is a game engine, exactly? Godot editor demo.

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Admix raises $25M Series B to scale up in-game ads, and prep for Metaverse gaming

TechCrunch

The London-based company brings ads to games, e-sports, virtual reality, and augmented reality. In-game advertising at scale, where advertisers can bid programmatically through traditional ad-buying platforms, rather than relying on an ad agency model, remains an enormous area, largely under-exploited.

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Why, though? Apple’s too-expensive gaming console

The Hustle

Apple’s great… … at a lot of stuff, but it’s never quite broken into the $214B+ video game industry. Macs weren’t designed for games, so studios didn’t develop for them, leaving little incentive for gaming enthusiasts to choose Apple. As of January 2023, ~96% of Steam players gamed on Windows machines.

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Types of Operating System

The Crazy Programmer

An operating system is the basic mechanism behind the working of the computer systems and mobile devices and so, understanding the operating system becomes very important from a user’s perspective. The various types of Operating systems are as follows: Types of Operating System.

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Salesforce IT injects generative AI to ease its massive datacenter migration

CIO

When you’re tasked with migrating 200,000 servers to a new operating system, a helping hand is very welcome indeed. Companies are beginning to realize that they’ve got to get on this right away and move to a well-supported production-ready operating system,” Lutz says. There are misconceptions about this,” he adds.