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Glasgow Tribunal Begins Hearing the Dismissal of 34 Rockstar Employees — Hearings May Run Until 16 October
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Glasgow Tribunal Begins Hearing the Dismissal of 34 Rockstar Employees — Hearings May Run Until 16 October

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Hearings in the claim brought by developers fired from Rockstar have started in Glasgow. The IWGB union calls the dismissals retaliation for organising; the studio cites disclosure of data.
Xbox Takes PHYSINT: Sony Canceled Kojima's Project, and the Studio Spent Three Months Looking for a New Publisher
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Xbox Takes PHYSINT: Sony Canceled Kojima's Project, and the Studio Spent Three Months Looking for a New Publisher

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Kojima Productions has moved its action title PHYSINT under Xbox's wing after PlayStation Studios shut the project down in mid-June. Terms and platforms have not been disclosed.
Adobe releases After Effects 26.5 and sends its agentic AI assistant to beta
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Adobe releases After Effects 26.5 and sends its agentic AI assistant to beta

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After Effects 26.5 adds disk caching for Object Matte and flexible guides, while a separate beta build introduces an agentic AI assistant that carries out natural-language commands.
Free Hardcraft add-on reads the structure of a CAD export and builds a game mesh from it in Blender
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Free Hardcraft add-on reads the structure of a CAD export and builds a game mesh from it in Blender

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Vitaly Yablonsky has released an alpha of Hardcraft: the add-on breaks a CAD export into patches and curves and builds a mesh of quads and triangles. Blender 5.0 or newer required.
Blizzard union wins the right to negotiate over AI adoption and to bring laid-off staff back
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Blizzard union wins the right to negotiate over AI adoption and to bring laid-off staff back

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The contract covers 1,900 Blizzard employees: the company must negotiate AI use with the union, and laid-off staff can return to open roles within 14 months.
Fusion Studio 21.1: hardware deep render up to eight times faster and more than 25 new Krokodove tools
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Fusion Studio 21.1: hardware deep render up to eight times faster and more than 25 new Krokodove tools

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Blackmagic Design has released the free Fusion Studio 21.1 update: over 25 new Krokodove tools, hardware deep render up to 8 times faster and distortion calibration from lines drawn in frame.
France's Stim grows in a falling market: a Tenerife studio, 100+ hires and a demand for AI literacy
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France's Stim grows in a falling market: a Tenerife studio, 100+ hires and a demand for AI literacy

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Service studio Stim has opened a fourth site — in Tenerife — and will hire more than 100 people there by mid-2027. The bet is on the Canary Islands tax rebates.
Animo 10 for Maya: 500+ Animation Tools in a Single Editor with Hotkeys
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Animo 10 for Maya: 500+ Animation Tools in a Single Editor with Hotkeys

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Ehsan Bayat has released Animo 10 for Maya: a tools editor with hotkey assignment, video and image import as references, animation layer support, and new sliders.
FuturLab lays off seven developers without warning team leads — staff asked to call those dismissed “leavers”
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FuturLab lays off seven developers without warning team leads — staff asked to call those dismissed “leavers”

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The PowerWash Simulator studio shut down a project it had worked on for two to three years and laid off seven people. Team leads were not told their reports were being cut.
Don't Nod warns investors: the studio may not continue operating after 31 January 2027, with 90 jobs being cut in France
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Don't Nod warns investors: the studio may not continue operating after 31 January 2027, with 90 jobs being cut in France

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The studio's half-year revenue fell 56%, with an operating EBITDA loss of €4.3 million. Don't Nod is merging its French production into a single line and has opened talks with the union.
DaVinci Resolve 21.1: integration with AI assistants and new scripting API methods — only in the paid Studio
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DaVinci Resolve 21.1: integration with AI assistants and new scripting API methods — only in the paid Studio

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Blackmagic has released DaVinci Resolve 21.1: integration with AI assistants, 20 new scripting API methods and a built-in console went to the paid Studio version.
Saber walls its big projects off from neural networks: there will be no generative AI in Space Marine 3
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Saber walls its big projects off from neural networks: there will be no generative AI in Space Marine 3

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Saber creative director Tim Willits said there is no generative AI in Space Marine 3, Hellraiser, Turok or Jurassic Park. The experiment has been left to a single project.
Proximity Snap add-on fixes clipping and gaps between meshes in Blender with a single button — and it's free
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Proximity Snap add-on fixes clipping and gaps between meshes in Blender with a single button — and it's free

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Developer rinvo has opened up his in-house tool: Proximity Snap pulls vertices to the nearest surface and holds them at a set distance from it.
World Labs unveils Atlas: the model controls the camera in video and delivers the scene as explicit 3D geometry
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World Labs unveils Atlas: the model controls the camera in video and delivers the scene as explicit 3D geometry

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Atlas by World Labs combines camera-controlled video generation, scene reconstruction from photos and space-time simulation. Access is granted by early-access request.
Enthusiast writes a new renderer for Doom 3 BFG Edition from scratch and shows path tracing with DLSS 5
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Enthusiast writes a new renderer for Doom 3 BFG Edition from scratch and shows path tracing with DLSS 5

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An author going by ruisu_enjeru has shown the second version of a Doom 3 BFG Edition demo with full path tracing on a custom renderer and support for DLSS 5 and Ray Reconstruction.
V-Ray 7.4 brings final render quality straight into the Maya and Houdini viewports, and Blender gets a free edition
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V-Ray 7.4 brings final render quality straight into the Maya and Houdini viewports, and Blender gets a free edition

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Chaos has hooked its real-time Vantage engine into the Maya, Houdini and 3ds Max viewports and added Gaussian splat relighting, AMD GPU rendering and a free V-Ray edition for Blender.
ArtStation Turns On the AI Training Ban by Default and Admits Its Generative Content Filters Are Failing
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ArtStation Turns On the AI Training Ban by Default and Admits Its Generative Content Filters Are Failing

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The NoAI tag is on by default for new and old work, AI crawlers are blocked together with Cloudflare, and the platform admits the CreatedWithAI label and its filters are not enough.
NVIDIA buys Hugging Face for $12.93 billion and promises not to tie open models to its chips
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NVIDIA buys Hugging Face for $12.93 billion and promises not to tie open models to its chips

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NVIDIA has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.93 billion. Jensen Huang said NVIDIA compute will not be required to build on the platform or deploy through it.
Illustrator releases Kala Paint — a digital painting editor with a one-time license and no generative AI
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Illustrator releases Kala Paint — a digital painting editor with a one-time license and no generative AI

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Kala Paint runs on a GPU brush engine, sells for a one-time $79.99 and, its author promises, will never get a subscription or generative features.
DLSS 5 launches on September 3: NVIDIA turns the upscaler into the final stage of rendering
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DLSS 5 launches on September 3: NVIDIA turns the upscaler into the final stage of rendering

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NVIDIA set the DLSS 5 launch for September 3 in NBA 2K27, on RTX 50 and GeForce NOW. The network adds lighting and materials over the engine frame; FPS figures assume 6X frame generation.