It has been a year with no major new console launches and where the industry has seen strikes and cuts with thousands of workers being laid off. The opening night of Gamescom is often an opportunity for a big shiny night to get fans all excited for the year ahead. Setting the stage for the next 12 months, here are the biggest things we found out from Europe's biggest gaming show in Germany. In a year when games became films, and films became games, the convention centre in Cologne saw a night all about the big trailers. This year, Borderlands has taken attention for its movie adaptation starring Cate Blanchett and Kevin Hart. That film received some of the year's harshest reviews, but that has not scuppered plans for a new game in the mainline series.

People Can Fly is one of the leading independent AAA games development studios with an international team of hundreds of talented individuals working from offices located in Poland, UK, US, and Canada, and from all over the world thanks to our remote work programs. Founded in 2002, we made our mark on the shooter genre with titles such as Painkiller, Bulletstorm, Gears of War: Judgment, and Outriders. We are one of the most experienced Unreal Engine studios in the industry and we are expanding it with in-house solutions called PCF Framework. Our creative teams are currently working on several exciting titles: Gemini is our new project being developed with Square Enix; Bifrost, Victoria and Dagger are projects we're growing in the self-publishing model. We also have one project in the concept phase – Red; as well as two projects in VR technology – Green Hell VR and Thunder - a new project based on one of the IPs from the Group's portfolio.

Many companies choose to embark on a path of adoption of artificial intelligence. Yet, with data in hand, few succeed in implementing it successfully. A large portion gets stranded along the way due to lack of expertise, costs to be incurred, or an ineffective initial strategy. As with any journey, in which you want to reach your destination as best as possible, it is essential to know the way and the various stages useful for regaining strength. Here are 5 steps that might help you along the way.

People Can Fly is one of the leading independent AAA games development studios with an international team of hundreds of talented individuals working from offices located in Poland, UK, US, and Canada, and from all over the world thanks to our remote work programs. Founded in 2002, we made our mark on the shooter genre with titles such as Painkiller, Bulletstorm, Gears of War: Judgment, and Outriders. We are one of the most experienced Unreal Engine studios in the industry and we are expanding it with in-house solutions called PCF Framework. Our creative teams are currently working on several exciting titles: Gemini is our new project being developed with Square Enix; Bifrost, Victoria and Dagger are projects we're growing in the self-publishing model. We also have one project in the concept phase – Red; as well as two projects in VR technology – Green Hell VR and Thunder - a new project based on one of the IPs from the Group's portfolio.

People Can Fly is one of the leading independent AAA games development studios with an international team of hundreds of talented individuals working from offices located in Poland, UK, US, and Canada, and from all over the world thanks to our remote work programs. Founded in 2002, we made our mark on the shooter genre with titles such as Painkiller, Bulletstorm, Gears of War: Judgment, and Outriders. We are one of the most experienced Unreal Engine studios in the industry and we are expanding it with in-house solutions called PCF Framework. Our creative teams are currently working on several exciting titles: Gemini is our new project being developed with Square Enix; Bifrost, Victoria and Dagger are projects we're growing in the self-publishing model. We also have one project in the concept phase – Red; as well as two projects in VR technology – Green Hell VR and Thunder - a new project based on one of the IPs from the Group's portfolio.

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Less than 24 hours into its fundraising, the Dash 2 Trade crypto trading intelligence platform has already raised more than $300,000 in the first stage of its presale. Positioning itself as the'Bloomberg Terminal for crypto' – but minus the $2,000 a month subscription, Dash 2 Trade is bringing the functionality and feature-set of a fully professional analytics and intelligence suite to the ordinary crypto trader. At the core of the Dash 2 Trade platform is its powerful and innovative dashboard. It's been in development for several months and is already at the minimum viable product stage, and the polished version will be ready to launch at the end of the presale. The Dash 2 Trade dashboard brings together all the tools, metrics, signals and indicators to turbo-charge trading performance.

Vancouver-based agricultural technology company Terramera is leading a new research project that hopes to use machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) to get ahead of COVID-19. The collaborative project hopes to avoid future pandemics via better forecasting and pre-design of effective vaccines, antibodies, and tests. Terramera plans to deliver computational models to identify and combat future mutants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. "Instead of playing catch-up again … we'll predict likely new strains with our machine learning models." British Columbia's Digital Technology Supercluster, backed by the Government of Canada, will support Terramera's effort with $1.8 million CAD in initial funding through its COVID-19 program, which seeks to protect the health and safety of Canadians and the country's economy "through the development, deployment, and scaling of digital technologies."

Esri has released a new web application for users that want to integrate deep learning into their imagery workflows. Deep Learning Studio, available with the release of ArcGIS Enterprise 11, offers a collaborative environment where multiple users can work together on a image-based project that includes deep learning. With the app, multiple users can work on a single project and perform deep learning tasks, such as collecting training samples, train deep learning models and run inferencing at scale. The app combines multiple things at once: a frontend experience to deep learning tasks that are part of backend raster analytics, a collaborative environment that divides otherwise tedious deep learning tasks over multiple users and a complete end-to-end deep learning workflow, that is offered through a user-friendly project wizard (figure 3). Although the app requires no local software installations, it requires both ArcGIS Enterprise and ArcGIS Image Server, as these provide the data and analytics tools that are accessed through the app.

The metaverse space is moving rapidly in terms of hype and the volume of new projects being launched -- so much so that the industry market size is projected to grow from $100.27 billion in 2022 to $1,527.55 billion by 2029. But how many of these new projects are even remotely capable of realizing the actual vision set out? Many of the metaverse projects that have been launched are in the world of gaming. However, more often than not, these projects simply consist of standard gaming features combined with virtual reality and NFTs. A true metaverse, in the sense of a digital parallel universe to our analog world, a digital simulated reality in which participants can take part in diverse social, economic, entertainment and artistic activities in a variety of self-organized groupings and environments, has yet to be realized.