Mike Capps: Ex-Epic Games prez unveils Diveplane’s understandable and responsible AI
Mike Capps, the former president of Epic Games, retired six years ago to focus on his family. But yesterday he announced that he has...
Spotify, Snapchat, and more are down following Google Cloud incident (update: fixed)
Updated at 1:35 p.m. Pacific time. Google has fixed the problem. Multiple online services are experiencing outages and slow responses today due to a...
Fortnite studio Epic wants to improve its hit with Amazon Web Services
Epic Games already hosts its megahit Fortnite on Amazon’s server platform, but the developer revealed today that it is planning to partner with Amazon...
Warner Bros. picks up Plexchat for social gaming
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment is adding a social element to its mobile game business with the acquisition of Plexchat, a social gaming startup that...
Google’s DeepMind taught AI teamwork by playing Quake III Arena
Google's DeepMind today shared the results of training multiple AI systems to play Capture the Flag on Quake III Arena, a multiplayer first-person shooter game. The AI played nearly 450,000 games to gain its dominance over human players and establish its understanding of how to work with other machines and humans.
Epic Games awards $1 million in Unreal Dev Grants to 37 teams
Epic Games is opening up its Fortnite money vault to award 37 game development teams with a total of $1 million in Unreal Dev...
Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview with Edge, Skype, video, typing, font, and Task Manager improvements
Microsoft has released Windows 10 build 17704 from the RS5 branch. Among the changes are improvements to Edge, Skype, Diagnostic Data Viewer, video, typing insights, font, security, Task Manager, accessibility, container, and Windows Mixed Reality.
OpenAI’s bot can now defeat skilled Dota 2 teams
Artificial intelligence researchers at OpenAI have developed a system -- OpenAI Five -- that can defeat teams of skilled Dota 2 players.
Want to make your name as a streamer? Work on your GIF game (updated)
After Nintendo revealed that it would be bringing Fortnite to its Switch console during its presentation at E3 2018, it picked up over 2...
Jurassic World: Revealed is an Amazon Alexa game you play with your voice
Universal Brand Development and Earplay announced the release of premium chapters in Jurassic World Revealed, an interactive audio adventure game for Amazon’s Alexa voice-enabled...