Ubisoft uses AI to teach a car to drive itself in a racing game
Reinforcement learning, an AI training technique that employs rewards to drive software policies toward goals, has been applied successfully to domains from industrial robotics...
Facebook Gaming releases Pokémon Tower Battle and Pokémon Medallion Battle as instant games
Facebook Gaming is announcing that it is releasing two new games, Pokémon Tower Battle and Pokémon Medallion Battle, on its Instant Games platform. This...
Tencent details how its MOBA-playing AI system beats 99.81% of human opponents
In August, Tencent announced it had developed an AI system capable of defeating teams of pros in a five-on-five match in Honor of Kings...
GamesBeat Rewind 2019: The year’s biggest trends … and where they’re heading in 2020
The game industry is in a huge period of flux, but 2019 only set the stage for enormous paradigm shifts that the coming year...
Building a solid hosting infrastructure is key to gaming’s future
Through the decades, gaming has grown from a niche hobby for a select few to a massive worldwide community. The online gaming community is...
Snap Games launches leaderboard games for friendly battles
Snapchat has been adding games as a way to keep friends engaged with each other. And now the company’s Snap Games division is introducing...
App Annie: The biggest apps and games of 2019
No doubt you’ve heard of Facebook Messenger, the top non-game app of 2019 in terms of downloads. But how about Free Fire, the battle...
DeepMind’s Dreamer AI learns from the past to predict the future
Some AI systems achieve goals in challenging environments by drawing on representations of the world informed by past experiences. They generalize these to novel...
How to keep your online game running and bug-free
Today’s game consoles offer functionalities — such as platform crossplay — that are something of a miracle. Because every game runs differently, especially across...
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Summit underlined the risks of relying on partners
From my perspective, attending this year’s Snapdragon Tech Summit was all but mandatory for a journalist covering 5G: It offered the very first opportunity to...