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Gorgeous RPG 'Haven' expands to Switch and PS4 on February 4th

January 27, 2021
Haven is centered around a pair of lovers on a lost planet, so it’s fitting that it’ll arrive on more platforms just ahead of Valentine’s Day. The sci-fi RPG will land on Nintendo Switch, PS4 and Epic Games Store on February 4th. It debuted on Steam, GOG, PlayStation 5, Xbox One and Series X/S in early December to positive reviews.  We are thrilled to announce that Haven is…
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Plex Arcade features a bunch of old-school Atari games

January 27, 2021
Media streaming service Plex is moving beyond TV, movies, audio and photos. Starting today, you can play a bunch of Atari games through a Plex Arcade subscription. Plex has teamed up with Parsec to offer classics like Asteroids, Centipede, Missile Command and Super…
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Researchers propose LEAF, a frontend for developing AI classification algorithms

January 26, 2021
In machine learning, mel-filterbanks — fixed, hand-engineered representations of sound — are often used to train algorithms that classify sound. Decades after the design of mel-filterbanks, research shows that they exhibit desirable mathematical properties for representation learning; in other words, they represent strong audio features. But the design of mel-filterbanks is also flawed by…
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GamesBeat Decides: The best (and worst) ‘core’ Mario games

January 24, 2021
Many Mario games are some of the best pieces of digital entertainment ever created. The series seemed like an obvious choice for a new tier list-making video series … so here we are. My cohort Jeff Grubb and I rank every game in the core Mario series. What does “core”…
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Microsoft reverses Xbox Live Gold price increase, free-to-play games set free

January 23, 2021
Earlier today, Microsoft announced a price increase for Xbox Live Gold, the subscription service that lets Xbox users play games online. Somehow, Microsoft was surprised to find out that this was an unpopular move. So less than 24 hours later, Microsoft is backtracking. Xbox Live Gold will not see its price raised. Further, free-to-play games like Fortnite will no longer require Gold to play…
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YouTube finally delivers HDR videos on the Xbox One

January 22, 2021
You can finally watch YouTube videos in HDR on last-gen Xbox One S and One X consoles, along with the latest Xbox Series S and Xbox Series X models, according to Google. As spotted by Flat Panels HD and confirmed by Engadget, opening a YouTube HDR video on a recent Xbox One console, then bringing up “stats for nerds” shows that it’s streaming in the PQ Rec.2020 HDR format using the VP9-2…
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