A preprint paper coauthored by Uber AI scientists and Jeff Clune, a research team leader at San Francisco startup OpenAI, describes Fiber, an AI development and distributed training platform for methods including reinforcement learning (which spurs AI agents to complete goals via rewards) and population-based learning. The team says that Fiber expands the accessibility of large-scale parallel…
Bravely Default II demo releases on Switch
March 27, 2020
We got to see more of Bravely Default II during today’s Nintendo Direct Mini, and a demo for the Square Enix role-playing game is out now on Switch. The full game releases sometime this year.
Nintendo announced Bravely Default II during the last Direct in December. We only…
Panzer Dragoon: Remake gets a surprise launch on Switch
March 27, 2020
Nintendo released a surprise Nintendo Direct Mini presentation today, and with it came the out-of-nowhere launch of Panzer Dragoon Remake for Switch.
We knew that this game was coming, but the on-rails shooter didn’t have an release date. Nintendo often likes to have some…
Epic Games will publish new titles from the makers of The Last Guardian, Limbo, and Control
March 27, 2020
Epic Games will publish new titles from three well-known and respected game studios: Gen Design (maker of The Last Guardian), Playdead (Inside, Limbo), and Remedy Entertainment (Control). The projects will be released under Epic Games Publishing, a new multiplatform publishing effort with a developer-first approach.
The North Carolina-based Epic Games is on an expansion path, thanks to the riches…
Tribe Gaming raises $1.04 million from celebrity athletes to expand its mobile esports business
March 27, 2020
Tribe Gaming has raised $1.04 million to expand its mobile esports teams and media business.
The Austin, Texas-based company has courted celebrities, and investors in the deal include Gordon Hayward of the NBA’s Boston Celtics, Kristian Segerstrale (CEO of Super Evil…
Nintendo hasn’t announced a lot of first-party releases for 2020, but one game that we’ve known is coming for a while is Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition. Now, that open-world action-RPG has a release date. Nintendo and developer Monolith Soft are launching the…
Catherine: Full Body is coming to Switch on July 7
March 27, 2020
Nintendo revealed during its Direct Mini presentation today that Catherine: Full Body is coming to Switch on July 7.
Full Body is a definitive edition release of the Atlus puzzle game, which debuted in 2011. The original version sold over 1 million copies, which is good for a niche game from a niche publisher. Fully Body first released out in 2019 for PlayStation 4 and Vita, featuring some…
Nintendo brings back Club House Games for Switch
March 27, 2020
Nintendo is bringing back one of its better and more obscure handheld properties. The publisher announced Club House Games: 51 Worldwide Classics is coming to Nintendo Switch on June 5. This is a followup to the excellent Clubhouse Games for Nintendo DS from 2006.
51…
IBM’s AI generates new footage from video stills
March 27, 2020
A paper coauthored by researchers at IBM describes an AI system — Navsynth — that generates videos seen during training, as well as unseen videos. While this in and of itself isn’t novel — it’s an acute area of interest for Alphabet’s DeepMind and others — the…
Animoca Brands and its subsidiary TSB Gaming said that The Sandbox blockchain-based gaming world will feature a virtual Atari theme park.
It’s one more example of how Atari is aggressively putting its name on everything from new VCS game consoles (which haven’t shipped yet) to hotel chains.
TSB Gaming (previously Pixowl) is creating The Sandbox platform based on blockchain and non-fungible…
