After 5,000 games, Microsoft’s Suphx AI can defeat top Mahjong players
Bolstered by algorithmic breakthroughs and an abundance of cheap computing power, AI has become a veritable games champion, notching wins against the world’s top-ranked...
IBM’s tennis AI measures player performance and selects highlights
Tennis and AI are like peas in a pod, if you ask IBM. The folks at the Armonk, New York-based company today detailed Coach...
Wheel of Fate is an RPG where AI builds the world based on your choices
Game developers use artificial intelligence in a number of ways: to generate grass and flowers, test bugs, and better enable teams to work on...
Sprint launches unlimited mobile cloud games with Hatch on 5G
Cloud gaming is sprinting forward today as Sprint launches unlimited mobile cloud gaming with Hatch Premium on Sprint’s 5G mobile network. The latest Sprint...
Sphero acquires modular electronics company LittleBits
Sphero, the nine-year-old Colorado-based company best known for its lineup of programmable robots, this week completed a major acquisition that catapults it to the...
Facebook: Expect Oculus Insight tracking in future wearable AR glasses
Ask any Oculus Quest or Rift S user to name the headset’s most impressive new feature, and there’s a good chance they’ll point to...
Why video games are shooting down the Hollywood model
Not that long ago, big video games used to get sold like big movies: a flashy trailer, lots of messageboard hype, some fan conference...
Jensen Huang interview: Why AI is the single most powerful force of our time
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang proudly proclaimed on an analyst earnings call this week that artificial intelligence is the “single most powerful force of our...
Amazon launches Custom Interfaces for Alexa skills to deepen connections with games and gadgets
Amazon has maintained a steady focus on connecting home devices with its Echo smart speakers, from forging ties with more than 60,000 smart home...
Nvidia reports $2.58 billion in Q2 revenue as AI and graphics demand strengthens
Nvidia reported earnings and revenues that beat analysts’ expectations as demand for graphics and artificial intelligence chips picked up in the second fiscal quarter....