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Ubisoft uses AI to teach a car to drive itself in a racing game

December 27, 2019
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 its efficacy in video games like Dota 2, Quake III Arena, and StarCraft 2, few to date have studied its use under constraints…
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How Twitch started to lose its grip on video game streaming

December 26, 2019
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…
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Researchers want to use Mega Man 2 to evaluate AI

December 26, 2019
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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'Call of Duty: Modern Warfare' adds holiday-only snowball fights

December 25, 2019
The Call of Duty: Modern Warfare team is marking the holidays with decidedly kinder, more lighthearted gameplay. Infinity Ward and Activision have introduced a Snowfight mode that will only be available until December 31st at 1PM Eastern. It’s exactly what it sounds like: you and a partner have to take down foes using snowballs instead of the usual guns and explosives. If you’re…
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'Fallout 76' hackers wiped out players' inventories

December 24, 2019
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…
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GameStop's $250 1TB Xbox One X deal is as cheap as 4K gaming gets

December 24, 2019
Looking for a console upgrade before the Xbox Series X hits shelves? You may have some time left to get a 1TB Xbox One X for as cheap as a price as we’ve seen. GameStop is offering last year’s 2K19 console bundle for just $250, while the store’s Game Days promotion throws in a second controller for free. That gets everything you need for some 4K HDR gaming as well as Ultra HD…
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Henry Cavill is right — in 2019, Total War: Warhammer is great

December 20, 2019
Creative Assembly’s Total War: Warhammer franchise has seemed to be quiet recently (apart from a shout-out from Witcher star Henry Cavill). IIts last new faction expansion, which is arguably the most newsworthy postrelease addition for a strategy game, was over a year ago. But a year of quieter additions, such as new playable lords for existing factions and major patches, has actually shifted…
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