 Hello just letting discord know I'm going live and now I'm live we got Patrick Beja on the show today very exciting let me do this I need to get through this by noon can he do it Zoe brings bacon says yes I don't know do you say yes put words in your mouth oh thanks for putting the link in there appreciate it on this episode of DTNS. Beja is here to talk about Unity's multi-platform strategy and Ubisoft's AI NPCs plus threads takes a few more steps towards the Fediverse it's all coming up on the daily tech news show the question was not is it time to make coffee I don't remember what the question was no I'm so long ago okay Wednesday March 20th that is correct Columbus Ohio that is correct Patrick Beja coolest French podcaster we know start with the quick quits it'll be me I think I want that one next that'll be Rob and me I think yeah yeah that's good that's good we'll do wrong but do that and then I'll do that okay Ubisoft revealed a due to see Fed of form the two-day virtual in conference to discuss the future of the fashion during Tuesday's presentation met as Peter Cuddle showed off a brief demo how users can eventually connect their accounts and host to the Fediverse through threads Fediverse is an interconnected social platform ecosystem based on an open protocol called activity pub which lets you port your content data and follow a graph between networks meta is one of the many platforms aiming to join the Fediverse I think I'm going to change that line threads is one of the many plans for aiming to interoperate now you could say join you could say join interestingly blue sky the Jack Dorsey based back decentralized almost red baked Jack Dorsey backed decentralized I'm gonna say started decentralized social network uses the at protocol I can't get enough Android in your life listen Android faithful my friends on Monday Unity Technologies developer of the popular game engine Unity released its Unity gaming report insights and data from over five million Unity engine developers and more than five million and more than I know over is acceptable now but I don't care among the findings were the increased diversification of revenue sources such as in-app advertising rapid adoption of AI 62 and expanded multi-platform Patrick you find the expansion of multi-platform to how do companies benefit from multi-platform titles are exclusive is gonna be rare how does Nintendo fit into this okay question is do we swap I think the answer may surprise you I think I'm gonna swap this one this one we're gonna put Ubisoft in the B block because it goes nicely with the rest of the show and okay so Rob will kick us off in the eight block okay let's see what this venture brother venture brothers venture beat the report also gets in the responsive game of tech advances resilience and adaptation is the theme of venture beats games beat summit in Los Angeles my trial despite facing I'm a good thing about your Raymond despite facing persistent economic uncertainties game developers have demonstrated a strategic approach to navigate the shifting landscape leveraging innovative strategies to the studios are still experimenting with taking out of there focused on key opportunity areas the report draws insights from five and we have that despite adding complexing costs and increasing number of studios are investing in multi-platform number of multi-platform games is increased by 40 percent small studios embracing it multi-platform gaming revenue grew 10 percent we're seeing way more multiplayer multi-platform releases that really started with the big studios aiming at all the platforms or more platforms so even indies and smaller studios number of platforms is going up another trend is there are more games with live operations or frequently updated games filters are trying to make sure that their game is where players are ha studios are sustaining revenue and driving engagement through diverse monetization revenue from in-app advertising hi lucky games utilizing both rewarded videos and offer walls have experienced a significant increase in retention rates tough year for gaming AI is playing a pivotal role in boosting productivity and efficiency for game developers 62% of studios incorporating a to the workflows a lot of AI is being used for things clearly on the art side there's more and more of it use increased increased variation seeing a lot of you they said unity is launched on tech for detecting voice toxicity unity also showcase several technical advancements and achievements string gc including the unity six mega city metro unity six is latest version power large complex scenes develop multi-platform games directly in the editor that ties in and create dynamic AI and XR experiences all with improved speed and runtime we're doing a lot around the road map try and go in deep on a road map bunch fish company also reinforces our launch app vision pro in contrast unity doesn't have an actual press event where it will announce these things it will stage a lot of meetings and unity remains at the forefront of innovation supporting developers unity muse the AI platform is now fully integrated in the editor letting developers bring in directly where they work as for web 3 in the metaverse Whitton said those trends are not dead they've gone through a high cycle and they're focused on reality a hundred thousand percent agree Clinton said those games are good except screening really deep community with focus on multiplayer gaming and live operations Whitton said the company is listening and computing any more effectively all right I think I get it Patrick can tell me more okay how do companies benefit from multi-increased install base more revenue platforms or hardware similarities our exclusive is going to be rare how does Nintendo fit into this yep those are good questions Tim deputy the awesome Tim deputy has a great email about coming into port with them big wings on your boat okay thank you Patrick Baza Patron sticker out for good day internet we look at what a Deloitte survey to see what consumers say they want from streaming services and it's not just to stop raising prices okay what's the average cable TV bill ha latest average cable bill statistics put it at 217 a month average cost of TV only 78 a month okay hey I know her okay well there we go now I feel prepared feel good and I knew that I would I can close all these so what else has been going on I got a couple minutes before I got to go you've been taking good care of yourself how's the family it's up at him 12 happy Wednesday or nice though oh yeah test that pixel camera our weather is really nice right now not gonna lie they ain't bad living here weather wise Apollo has offered 11 billion dollars to buy parents oh that's interesting okay hold on how thank you for asking Zoe so he's doing good he had his appointment yesterday to get his hip injection and laser therapy and he was running around this morning we saw this funny tiktok with this woman with a senior dog who was like are you just f-ing with me like you're supposed to be in a hospital it's kind of the way we feel right now it's like okay we know we're on borrowed time you know but we'll take it Apollo global management has made an 11 billion dollar offer to buy Paramount global another offer from Skydance to merge with all of Paramount Apollo just wants to buy the film and TV studio Skydance wants to merge with all of it Netflix was interested in buying the studio Red Sharon Redstone Sherry Sherry Redstone is interested in selling Paramount in its entirety and she would have to agree to breaking up the company allowing a sale of the studio Apollo's offer is more than the market cap of Paramount global which is 7.7 million Skydance media run by David Ellison has made an offer to buy Paramount parent national amusements and merge Skydance into Paramount Paramount also discussed with Warren Brothers Discovery we talked about that oh web of magic that's no gifts are necessary but that's that's thoughtful of you yeah I get in Sunday morning and I leave early Tuesday morning but I'm basically there all day Sunday and Monday for TMS Vegas so you should be seeing me hey thanks Victor I'm glad you're liking the new Apple show I think Sarah and I lean are knocking it out of the park 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that's gonna be exciting to see two of my favorite people two of the smartest people I know out there getting to say hi to each other very very exciting they may have met part of me is like maybe they did maybe Rob has done Patrick show or something but anyway it'll be fun to hang out with them anyway and yes I know so many people have been asking Patrick to come back on and set me straight to keep me in check which is what he does best he is as we are going to introduce him the coolest French podcaster we know I think I know some others too so it's not an empty compliment all right well good stuff thanks everybody I know it's kind of a short one today but I hadn't done one in a while and I just wanted to make sure to to pop in and and say hi and do some prep and check in on y'all see how it's see how it's been going I have to do another wander around thing with the phone at some point just so you know Sarah is not on the show today because she is having to drive her mom to San Francisco from LA so she's going to try to join good day internet from the car we'll see how it goes so yeah that may or may not happen we'll see but yep oh Clinton you're not getting you know someone else was complaining about that I can't remember now which person was saying that YouTube wasn't sending them the notification notification for the lives I don't think there's anything on our end we're doing differently that would not notify you for that I'm curious why the DTS lives get notified but not the office hours there must be something I'm missing but I don't know what that would be anyway I'll keep a I'll keep an eye on that so yeah we'll yeah if you're getting them for the DTS shows like there's really no difference between what I'm doing here and that so there's no way it would know like oh this is an office hours let's not tell them yeah that's weird all right but thanks for letting me know okay bye everybody gotta go prepare for the show until tomorrow have well until an hour from now have a good day