Esports World Cup plans biggest video game tournament ever staged

With diversity, equity and inclusion at its core, Guild Esports has continued to build on its community-focused programmes, helping to create a welcoming and respectful environment for all gamers. Ivan Simic reports.

Content Everywhere companies are already in planning mode for this year’s IBC, which takes places as usual at RAI Amsterdam in September. Some will also have been working on, or at least taking note of, projects included in the event’s Accelerator Programme, the 2025 iteration of which began last October with a call for challenges, followed by Kickstart Day in February.

Investigative documentary filmmakers take broadcasters and streamers to task for being complicit in the rise of authoritarianism and muzzling the Palestinian experience in Gaza.

AI is the new secret sauce that every CTO is being pressed to bring on board, helping to supercharge every part of the business, from automating admin to amplifying creativity. But what is the underlying cost to the environment? Neal Romanek reports.

What happens when the tortoise of animation meets the hare of artificial intelligence? Speed is AI’s superpower but it threatens to wipe away jobs and craft. IBC365 is on the ground at the Animation Film Festival in Annecy.