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Researchers use drone-mounted microphones to suss out the shapes of rooms

Can a drone determine the shape of a room using microphones alone? That’s what Purdue University researchers set out to discover in a study that will be published next week in the SIAM Journal on Applied Algebra and Geometry. In it, they propose a drone-mounted microphone array that measures sound emitted …

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Rod Fergusson leaves Gears and The Coalition to run Diablo for Blizzard

Rod Fergusson announced today that he is leaving The Coalition, the Microsoft studio behind the Gears franchise, to lead the Diablo franchise for Blizzard Entertainment. Fergusson had worked on Gears since it was still an Epic Games franchise. He started at Epic in 2005, and then went over to Microsoft …

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2020: Cloud gaming’s gathering storm

Mobile gaming and cloud gaming platforms are now vital contributors to the video game industry’s expansion. According to recent data, the cloud gaming market rose from an estimated $ 45 million in 2017 to $ 66 million in 2018. If this trend continues, that figure is predicted to skyrocket to …

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Nexon Korea grants game developers 6.8% raise in deal with union

Nexon Korea has announced it has agreed to give a 6.8% wage increase to the labor union representing the company’s employees. The union, dubbed Starting Point, said it reached a tentative agreement with management to raise the average work wage for 2020. The Korea Herald said it was the first …

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