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'The Witcher 3' is now more popular on Steam than it was at launch

You’d think that a single player game over four years old would be long past its prime, but don’t tell that to CD Projekt Red. The studio’s community lead Marcin Momot has revealed that the PC version of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt broke its record for the most number of concurrent players, with nearly 94,000 people playing on December 29th. Polygon noted that the number has…
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GamesBeat Decides 134: What we want from PlayStation 5 and Xbox in 2020

In 2020, we’re getting both the PlayStation 5 and the new Xbox. And with that next-generation of hardware on the horizon, we’re looking forward with anticipation. What do we want from yet another round of consoles? We talk about that on this special episode of the GamesBeat Decides podcast. Join us, won’t you? We also talk about some of the games we’re looking forward to in 2019. And then…
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Ubisoft uses AI to teach a car to drive itself in a racing game

Reinforcement learning, an AI training technique that employs rewards to drive software policies toward goals, has been applied successfully to domains from industrial robotics to drug discovery. But while firms including OpenAI and Alphabet’s DeepMind have investigated…
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How Twitch started to lose its grip on video game streaming

For the longest time, Twitch was the undisputed champ of video game live streaming. The Amazon-owned platform has the highest number of ‘broadcasters’ and, more importantly, viewers watching, chatting and donating in real-time. For most full-time streamers, switching to any other platform felt like economic suicide. Then, on August 1st, the most popular and recognizable gamer in the…
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Researchers want to use Mega Man 2 to evaluate AI

Games have long served as a training ground for AI algorithms, and not without good reason. Games — particularly video games — provide challenging environments against which to benchmark autonomous systems. In 2013, a team of researchers introduced the Arcade Learning…
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'Fallout 76' hackers wiped out players' inventories

If you play Fallout 76 you might want to avoid public servers for a while. According to multiple posts on the game’s Reddit forums — and confirmed by publisher Bethesda — hackers have attacked public servers and wiped out the inventories of more than a few players. A post from one of the Overseers warns that “Your weapons and armor, and any other inventory items are not…
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