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Yahoo acquires Artifact, the AI-driven news app made by Instagram co-founders

Karthik Mudaliar — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 14:26:02 +0000

Yahoo has acquired Artifact, the news aggregating app that was created by Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Kreiger. Artifact was known for its AI-driven personalized news feed. Read more...

Instagram cofounders' news app Artifact is shutting down

Aditya Tiwari — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 07:40:01 +0000

Artifact, the news aggregator app launched by Instagram co-founders, is shutting down. The app will offer core news reading capability for some time but remove the ability to create new posts. Read more...

Instagram cofounders' news app Artifact can now summarize stories using AI

Aditya Tiwari — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 02:48:01 +0000

The personalized news app Artifact now features an AI-powered summarize tool that creates a tl;dr version of news stories. The tool can also summarize news stories as poems or in emoji language. Read more...

Valve stops development of its card game Artifact due to low player interest

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 22:06:01 +0000

Valve's digital collectible card game is no longer in development as the studio has pulled the plug on both the classic and rebooted versions. Both versions are now free-to-play with free cards. Read more...

Valve announces Artifact Beta 2.0, bringing major changes to the card game

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 20:02:02 +0000

Valve is trying to revive its collectible card game Artifact. The company will be kicking off a brand new beta that brings along changes to gameplay, monetization, new player experience, and more. Read more...

Valve halts Artifact updates, goes back to the drawing board

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Sat, 30 Mar 2019 07:18:01 +0000

Valve has confirmed that it won't be shipping updates to its collectible card game Artifact anymore, instead deciding to go back and rework the game's design, economy, social, and other systems. Read more...

Portal and Half-Life 2 writer Erik Wolpaw has rejoined Valve

Faheemmuddeen Patel — Sat, 05 Jan 2019 12:40:02 +0000

Erik Walpow has rejoined Valve after working at Double Fine games on the Psychonauts sequel. Erik worked on classics including Portal, Half-life and Left 4 Dead during his previous tenure at Valve. Read more...

Valve's taking all those Half Life 3 jokes to heart, promises to develop new games soon

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Sat, 01 Sep 2018 05:14:02 +0000

In a recent interview discussing their new game, Artifact, Valve developers discussed the myriad of Half-Life 3 jokes that are now an integral part of Valve's image, and their plans for new games. Read more...

Valve's card game Artifact will launch in November, first public showing at PAX West

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 19:16:01 +0000

Artifact, the upcoming Dota 2 themed card game by Valve, finally has a release date, with the company announcing today that the game will launch for PC in November and for mobile later this year. Read more...

Valve will begin shipping games again, has been jealous of Nintendo

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 13:08:01 +0000

Gabe Newell has revealed that Valve is working on several new games, in addition to the upcoming trading card game. Valve has also been jealous of Nintendo's software and hardware prowess. Read more...

Valve's Artifact card game won't be free-to-play, more details emerge

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Fri, 09 Mar 2018 10:42:01 +0000

Valve's upcoming trading card game, Artifact, will be running on the Source 2 engine, and aims for a 2018 launch on Steam. Magic: The Gathering creator is involved in the development process. Read more...

Valve announces a new game at The International, 'Artifact'

Pulasthi Ariyasinghe — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 09:36:01 +0000

In a surprise announcement, Valve revealed a brand new game during the Dota 2 tournament, The International, today. The new game is a spin-off card game based on Dota 2 named Artifact. Read more...