April 12, 2017
Leaked Star Wars: Battlefront II trailer is visually stunning
If you’re a fan of the Star Wars (many people are) then you may also be a fan of this trailer for Star Wars: Battlefront II, which just…
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April 11, 2017
Unreal’s ‘photorealistic character sample’ is like a Rob Lowe from the uncanny valley
Making the character models you see in games is a very involved process, and as a few recent titles have shown, the faces especially are hard as hell…
Read articleApril 10, 2017
Of course a venture capitalist was no match for CMU’s updated poker-playing AI
Libratus, Carnegie Mellon’s poker-playing AI, is damn good. It easily routed four of the world’s best poker players back in January over 120,000 hands of No-Limit Texas Hold-um.…
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Minecraft is getting a Marketplace where creators can monetize their creations
Minecraft is getting an update this spring that will add a number of new features, but the most dramatic might be the Minecraft Marketplace, a storefront where users…
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Google’s AlphaGo AI to take on world’s top Go player in May
After Google-owned DeepMind’s virtual Go champion AlphaGo took on and defeated one of the top-ranked human players in the world, it looks like Google wants to build some…
Read articleApril 6, 2017
The Xbox One Scorpio is a six-teraflop gaming beast
Microsoft couldn’t wait until E3 in June to unveil the Scorpio, so the company shared some details with Digital Foundry and we now know all of Project Scorpio’s tech specs.…
Read articleApril 5, 2017
E-sports coaching app gets $6 million, because that’s the world we live in now
Dojo Madness, a Berlin-based startup that sells analytics and coaching tools to casual and professional online gamers, has raised $6 million in a new round of financing. Read…
Read articleApril 3, 2017
A look back on the golden age of Atari gaming
This excerpt is from Jamie Lendino’s Breakout: How Atari 8-Bit Computers Defined a Generation, an amazing book that details with an obsessive’s eye the rise and fall of…
Read articleMarch 31, 2017
Stealthy gaming company Wonder is ready to tease its new mystery hardware
Wonder, the incredibly stealthy new gaming company, has quietly created a signup page for information and perks related to its plans for global domination of the gaming market…
Read articleMarch 30, 2017
Disney just launched the new mobile-only version of Club Penguin
Club Penguin Island, the mobile-only replacement for the original Club Penguin (which shut down last night) has launched. Started in 2005, Club Penguin was one of the first…
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