Valve revealed Steam’s Best of 2019 lists, including the top-selling VR games of the year. The section is split into platinum, gold, silver and bronze subdivisions, along with a section purely for the best VR releases of 2019.
The platinum category features the top VR sellers “as measured by gross revenue this year,” Steam said. It consists of Blade & Sorcery, Skryim VR, Arizona…
2016 indie hit 'Hyper Light Drifter' is free in the Epic Games Store
December 28, 2019
The Epic Holiday Sale is still going, and today’s daily free game is Hyper Light Drifter. The top-down action RPG was crowdfunded a few years ago before it was eventually released in 2016, and now you can try it out yourself for zero dollars. Hyper Light…
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…
Corinna Kopf is the latest top streamer to jump to Facebook Gaming
December 27, 2019
Facebook still isn’t done snapping up big-name Twitch streamers. Corinna Kopf, who’s also known for her YouTube presence, is switching to Facebook Gaming for livestreams. Her first stream on the service will take place December 30th at 7PM Eastern. She explained the move as “expanding [her] gaming career,” and saw Facebook as a place that “empowers” both her…
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…
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…
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 Environment, a collection of over 55 Atari 2600 games designed to test a broad range of AI techniques. More recently, San…
'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…
'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…
Facebook Gaming releases Pokémon Tower Battle and Pokémon Medallion Battle as instant games
December 24, 2019
Facebook Gaming is announcing that it is releasing two new games, Pokémon Tower Battle and Pokémon Medallion Battle, on its Instant Games platform.
This marks the first time The Pokémon Company has created games for Facebook Gaming, and both were built on the Instant Games platform. Pokémon Tower Battle launches worldwide today and is available in the Facebook Gaming tab and bookmark on…
