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...
The DeanBeat: My most anticipated games of 2020
The recent airing of The Game Awards showed us some big games that are coming out in 2020, so we can make our own...
The RetroBeat: 2019’s biggest retro gaming moments
As a year comes to a close, I once again look back instead of forward … and not even just to the last year....
What’s next for consumer AR in 2020
True augmented reality hasn’t found an easy path to consumer adoption. In spite of general understanding of how AR hardware and software should theoretically...
GamesBeat Rewind: 2019’s biggest stories
We’re heading toward a new year, and it’s sure to be a huge one thanks to the launches of the Xbox Series X and...
GamesBeat managing editor Jason Wilson’s favorite games of 2019
Each year, it gets harder to nail down my favorite games of the past season. Part of this is because there are just so...
GamesBeat editor Jeff Grubb’s top 20 games of 2019
We’ve had a lot of really good years in gaming recently, but 2019 is at the top of the list for me. I get...
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...
Amplifying New Voices diversity training program finds permanent home with AIAS Foundation
Amplifying New Voices, a program that trains diverse game industry people to be good speakers, has found a permanent home with the Academy of...
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...