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EA just made another 23 accessibility patents available for devs US publishing giant Electronic Arts has made another 23 accessibility patents available for developers to use.  Among the patents being rolled out are intelligent personalised speech recognition, the ability to generate express speech audio from text and generating in-game speech in a player’s voice. That’s on top of using machine learning to change voices to an appropriate age, changing a g…

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Report: Funko has taken down Itch.io Indie games platform Itch.io has reportedly been taken down by pop culture brand Funko. That’s according to the company’s official Twitter account , which claims that the toy firm has used an AI-powered brand protection software called Brand Shield. This in term, Itch.io alleges, has resulted in its domain being disabled on the back of “some bogus phishing report” that the service sent to its dom…

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Disco Elysium vets at Dark Math Games secure seven-figure funding Dark Math Games has landed a seven-figure investment.  GI.biz reports that the studio – founded by former staff from Disco Elysium studio ZA/UM – have secured the funding for its first project, XXX Nightshift. Estonia investor MM Grupp has provided the cash; the financial firm was also an investor in Disco Elysium.  “We’re thrilled to include an experienced investor that und…

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PTW sets up new studio in South Carolina Service firm PTW has set up shop in Charleston, South Carolina.  This new outfit is going to be designed for ‘next-gen testing’ in addition to other games services. The office will be led by studio head Bernhard Rieder, who will be reporting into PTW’s VP of operations for the Americas, Sebastien Bisch.  This follows PTW acquiring Florida-based developer Ghostpunch for $13 million earli…

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Report: Tencent and Ubisoft in talks about buyout French publishing giant Ubisoft is reportedly in discussions with Tencent about a potential buyout of the Assassin’s Creed firm.  Reuters reports that the two are in talks about a deal that would not reduce the Guillemot family’s controlling stake in the company. The Guillemots have also been speaking to other investors about a management buyout.  Tencent is reportedly weighing up wheth…