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Union Commerce and Industries Minister Piyush Goyal is scheduled to visit the US from November 13-17 to attend the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) ministerial meeting and has been invited to attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in San Francisco.

There was only one song that seven-year-old me would dance to at a school disco. When it came to get down, I had 3 minutes and 46 seconds to holler “who ya gonna call?” at the top of my pre-pubescent lungs before I’d slope back off to the edge of the hall while everyone else did The Birdie Song. I was never disappointed. For a while there in the 80s, Ghostbusters was everything, a more cerebral offering than He-Man and a primer for the similarly ooze-infused Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. So, as a slightly older person, the return of Ghostbusters to both the cinema and our digital platforms has the potential to be everything once again. The Meta Quest 2 and PSVR 2 release of Ghostbusters: Rise of the Ghost Lord also means that there’s finally a clear answer to “who ya gonna call?”. It’s me. And, potentially, you.

OpenAI, which is largely credited for the generative artificial intelligence frenzy that started after the launch of its ChatGPT chatbot, just concluded its first-ever developer conference. The event, DevDay 2023, was hosted from the SVN West facility in San Francisco, the same city where it is headquartered. Company CEO Sam Altman came on the stage at the start of the keynote session and highlighted the major milestones achieved by the company as well as the way forward. Some key announcements were also made during the event, including the new GPT-4 Turbo, and a new GPT Store. Let us check out the 10 key announcements made during the event.

Solana Labs has launched a beta for GameShift, a platform that makes it easier for game developers to create blockchain games.

Spyglass Media Group and Sony Pictures have teamed up with AI and metaverse company MeetKai to create a horror metaverse experience for the upcoming horror film Thanksgiving.

Pulling a wand and down and readying it for action from its proton pack mount certainly feels like a confirmed return on the promise of VR. Long-running VR-focused studio nDreams’ new multiplayer co-op game incorporates snazzy versions of all the standard ghostbusting gear into a fine use of the license, with digestible short-stint missions that rarely overstay their welcome.

The Walking Dead: Match 3 Tales debuts today as a puzzle role-playing game from Com2us and Skybound Entertainment.

Ledger is launching the second season of its gamified educational platform in The Sandbox virtual world with the aim of expanding crypto knowledge in the metaverse.

Playbite has raised $1 million to bring back the magic of arcades on mobile gaming devices.

Getting an email asking if I want a copy of “the Apex Legends cookbook” was one of the most WTF moments of my year thus far, but once I knew it existed, I had to have it. Before I left for GamesBeat Next, I was perusing and casually testing some of the recipes in the book, and let me tell you: The Apex Legends cookbook is a goldmine of comedy, if not of particularly inventive recipes. Some of the food feels artificially tied to specific characters — Octane has a couple of recipes in the book (both good, too), and I’ll remind you the character is canonically a thrill-seeking drug addict. I want nothing to do with whatever he puts in his body.

LG NOVA has announced the latest iteration of its Mission for the Future program, where it fosters collaboration between startups and the big electronics firm.

Harmony Games has raised $3 million in seed round funding for mobile games such as Tiles Delight.