DeepMind hopes to teach AI to cooperate by playing Diplomacy
DeepMind, the Alphabet-backed machine learning lab that’s tackled chess, Go, Starcraft 2, Montezuma’s Revenge, and beyond, believes the board game Diplomacy could motivate a...
Rovio’s Small Town Murders is a story-based match-3 puzzle game
Rovio continues its quest to diversify beyond Angry Birds with Small Town Murders, a match-3 mobile puzzle game. The free-to-play title launches Wednesday on...
Pico Neo 2 and Tobii-powered eye-tracking variant now available worldwide
Pico Interactive is making its Neo 2 line of standalone headsets available worldwide. The base model is $700, while an eye-tracking variant powered by...
Square Enix establishes new company to pursue ‘entertainment AI’
Final Fantasy VII Remake is a smash hit for publisher Square Enix. Like the last time a Final Fantasy VII game put Square on...
Kippo raises $2 million for a dating app for gamers
The days when gamers couldn’t get dates are over. Case in point: Kippo has raised $2 million for a dating app for gamers who...
Steam Cloud Play enters beta with support for GeForce Now
Valve is expanding Steam’s integration with cloud-streaming services. The company released new Steamworks documentation for developers that details how Steam Cloud Play works. As...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on the Metaverse, permanent WFH, and accelerating raises
Nvidia posted big earnings gains and unveiled its 54-billion transistor A100 artificial intelligence chip in the past couple of weeks. We talked with CEO...
Nvidia’s GameGAN generates games like Pac-Man by watching videos
Two years ago, Nvidia researchers detailed AI that could generate visuals and combine them with a game engine to create an interactive, navigable environment....
Nvidia reports $3.08 billion in Q1 2020 revenue, up 39% as AI and cloud soar
Nvidia posted revenues of $3.08 billion for the first quarter ended April 26, up 39% from a year earlier. The revenues beat expectations, and...
How to watch Microsoft’s Build 2020 stream with 100,000 attendees
Microsoft’s biggest event of the year is upon us, and this time it’s bigger than ever. Because, coronavirus — you know the drill. Microsoft...