If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.
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This animated film has photorealistic shading, lighting, and compositing. That means the animated rain looks like real rain, and so does everything else.
Editor's Pick Pixar gave a rare look inside the making of Monsters University in visit to the company's campus in Emeryville, Calif.
Even with computers, it still takes weeks to create a few seconds of animation. Monsters are harder to animate than you'd expect.
Monster's University is a technological marvel that took a room full of computers years to fully animate. A single frame took 29 hours to render.
If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best video game stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.
Steel Wool is working on a platform game with chase sequences called Flyhunter.
Veterans of The Incredibles, Toy Story 3, and more formed Steel Wool Games and plan to release their first title this summer.
Steve Jobs was kind of a jerk, but sometimes that led to some really humorous interactions.
This action game comes from the mind of Mark Cerny, the lead designer of the PlayStation 4 hardware.
You know how that lamp in Pixar that makes you believe cold metal could actually be a great cuddle buddy? That's what a team from New Zealand has created: a little loveable lamp that can both see and hear you.
ToyTalk has raised $11.5 million for its talking teddybears, created by former Pixar CTO and SRI scientist.
Editor's Pick In the aftermath of the announcement, I caught up with Pixar's former CTO, Oren Jacob, for a conversation about the reunion of Lucasfilm and Pixar, two great production houses under the same roof once again.
Editor's Pick Hollywood North? L.A. with rain? The city that riots whenever its hockey team doesn't win the Stanley Cup?
Americans might think of Vancouver in many ways, but typically not as a tech startup mecca.
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Single-year revenue growth of over 500 percent is going to bring any company good things. In online marketing firm Magnetic’s case, it’s brought a new series of funding totalling $10 million.
Magnetic is a leader in the search retargeting industry, …
Outfit7, creators of the “Talking Friends” mobile games, announced today it has seen 225 million downloads only 5 and a half months after announcing 100 million.
Talking Friends is a set of mobile applications catering to children. These friends come …
As annoying as it is to get Farmville requests from friends on Facebook, now there may be no way to escape the popular game: Farmville in talks to be made into a movie.
Alec Sokolow and Joel Cohen, writers on …
Disney chief executive Robert Iger announced today he will be stepping down from his position in 2015.
The Wall Street Journal reports he will become Disney’s executive chairman in March 2012, when current chairman John Pepper retires. Iger will hold …
Steve Jobs’ long-awaited biography is scheduled to be published on Nov. 21. Based on more than 40 interviews with Jobs, the book promises to be one of the most interesting reads of the decade for people who follow the tech …
