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Sega and Microsoft announce strategic alliance to develop ‘Super Game’ initiative on Azure

GeekWire

The Japanese video game company Sega announced Monday that it plans to “explore a strategic alliance” with Microsoft, which will see Sega build new games and overhaul its development process via Microsoft’s Azure platform. Whatever that ends up being, its development process will be powered by Microsoft Azure.

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Temporal is a unicorn: Developer productivity startup lands $103M at $1.5B valuation

GeekWire

The idea is to give developers more time to code, versus spending time on scalability and reliability. The chops: Fateev, CEO, spent nearly six years at Amazon from 2002 to 2008, landed at Microsoft for two years, then returned to Amazon as a principal engineer. The reception to that idea sparked them to launch Temporal.

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Veteran video game developers, visual effects experts launch new Vancouver B.C. studio Blinkmoon

GeekWire

An Emmy-winning visual effects artist has joined an industry colleague and a veteran video game producer to found a new video game development studio in Vancouver, B.C. Blinkmoon’s co-founders, left to right: Hugh Behroozy, Mohsen Mousavi, Troy Dunniway. Blinkmoon , founded in January 2021, first went public on Feb.

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Looking back at what Living Networks got right 20 years ago

Trends in the Living Networks

For many years my reputation and credibility as a futurist has been significantly supported by my 2002 book Living Networks , which anticipated many developments of the last two decades, including pointing to the rise of social networks and micro-messaging before any of today’s social platforms existed.

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Q&A: ServiceNow CIO sees an 'iPhone moment' for genAI

Computerworld Vertical IT

Before that, Bedi held various positions at VeriSign between 2002 and 2011, including CIO, vice president of corporate development, and vice president of human resource operations. Prior to joining ServiceNow, he spent almost four years as CIO of JDS Uniphase Corp. To read this article in full, please click here

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Q&A: ServiceNow CIO sees an 'iPhone moment' for genAI

ComputerWorld IT Management

Before that, Bedi held various positions at VeriSign between 2002 and 2011, including CIO, vice president of corporate development, and vice president of human resource operations. Prior to joining ServiceNow, he spent almost four years as CIO of JDS Uniphase Corp. To read this article in full, please click here

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Valve sued by Immersion in patent infringement lawsuit related to haptic technology

GeekWire

Titles listed in the suit, many of which are not published or developed by Valve, include Apex Legends, Half-Life: Alyx , STAR WARS: Jedi Survivor, War Thunder, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II. Its previous suits include accusations against Apple (2016), Sony (2002), Microsoft (2002), and Meta (2022).

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