The Elder Scrolls

• The 2024 Game Developers Conference (GDC), the world’s largest gathering of game industry professionals and enthusiasts who are devoted to the art and science of making games, begins its 38th edition today at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco.
• The conference continues on Wednesday, March 20, the opening day of GDC’s core conference and commences with the GDC Main Stage Performance titled “A Developer’s Concert” in North Hall at 9:00am PT.
• Also new this year is the Game History Gallery, created in partnership with the Video Game History Foundation.
• For more details on the Game Developers Conference, please visit GDC’s official website , or subscribe to regular updates via Facebook , Twitter/X , or RSS.

Elevating the Voices of Creative Professionals: Report & Quote Book

• “Most are blue collar, working class voice actors who are working 40 plus hours a week.
• Over 60% of the voice actors are located outside of LA and New York.
• We’re not anti-tech or anti-AI, as many have said before.”   There are many perspectives on generative AI.

The editor of a science fiction and fantasy magazine 
A software developer and contributor to free and open source software projects 
Award winning artists who contributed to movies like Black Panther and Jurassic World along with video games like The Elder Scrolls 

• While the benefits or risks of new technologies are being debated by policymakers, these individuals experience the effects of innovation in real-time.
• October discussion underscored that people have concerns about generative AI that are relevant right now and not hypothetical.   In participants’ own words, generative AI is having profound impacts today.
• “That's a full-time job.”   Understanding these perspectives could be valuable, not everyone has time to watch the 96-minute video recording or read the 40+ page public transcript.

The report itself – supported by attorneys and technologists across the agency, which summarizes the event in terms of: how participants said their data is being obtained, what harms they said they face, how they view consent defaults, and what they’re doing to address generative AI.  

• "We are extremely excited that XP Foundry and its debut web3 title Rooniverse are joining the ever-growing ImmutableX family," said Andrew Sorokovsky, VP of Global Business Development at Immutable.
• Rooniverse is a F2P hyper-royale mobile game featuring cute and savage creatures battling in PvP game modes.
• The studio's co-CEO and game director James Finley is a former director of technology at Unity Studios with over 15 years of experience in game direction.
• Additionally, executive producer, James Chung, is a former art director at EA and worked on the original Call of Duty team.

• (Graphic: Business Wire)
  Immortals of Aveum is a groundbreaking new single-player, first-person magic shooter that delivers a visceral, cinematic campaign experience.
• "I founded Ascendant Studios to make original and epic games, and here we are, four years later, about to finish our first one.
• I chose EA as our publishing partner because we know theyll help Immortals of Aveum reach the biggest audience possible.
• To learn more about Ascendant Studios and Immortals of Aveum, visit www.ascendantstudios.com and follow on YouTube , Twitter , TikTok , Instagram , Facebook , and LinkedIn .