reader comments 23 On Friday, Roblox announced plans to introduce an open source generative AI tool that will allow game creators to build 3D environments and objects using text prompts, reports MIT Tech Review. The feature, which is still under development, may streamline the process of creating game worlds on the popular online platform, potentially… Read More »
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 135 On Tuesday, researchers from Google and Tel Aviv University unveiled GameNGen, a new AI model that can interactively simulate the classic 1993 first-person shooter game Doom in real time using AI image generation techniques borrowed from Stable Diffusion. It’s a neural network system that can function as… Read More »
Enlarge / Illustration of the Apollo lunar lander Eagle over the Moon. reader comments 49 On Friday, a retired software engineer named Martin C. Martin announced that he recently discovered a bug in the original Lunar Lander computer game’s physics code while tinkering with the software. Created by a 17-year-old high school student named Jim… Read More »
Enlarge / Blizzard shared this image teasing a now-cancelled game in 2022. Blizzard Entertainment/Twitter reader comments 97 The survival game that Blizzard announced it was working on in January 2022 has reportedly been canceled. The cut comes as Microsoft is slashing jobs a little over four months after closing its $69 billion Activision Blizzard acquisition.… Read More »
reader comments 29 with On Wednesday, Activision announced that it will be introducing real-time AI-powered voice chat moderation in the upcoming November 10 release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III. The company is partnering with Modulate to implement this feature, using technology called ToxMod to identify and take action against hate speech, bullying, harassment, and… Read More »
reader comments 12 with Thousands of websites belonging to US government agencies, leading universities, and professional organizations have been hijacked over the last half decade and used to push scammy offers and promotions, new research has found. Many of these scams are aimed at children and attempt to trick them into downloading apps, malware, or… Read More »
Enlarge / A World of Warcraft illustration from the Zleague.gg article on “Glorbo.” Zleague.gg reader comments 62 with On Thursday, a Reddit user named kaefer_kriegerin posted a fake announcement on the World of Warcraft subreddit about the introduction of “Glorbo” to the game. Glorbo isn’t real, but the post successfully exposed a website that scrapes… Read More »
Enlarge / Attorneys carrying boxes arrive to court in San Francisco, California, US, on Tuesday, June 27, 2023. A judge has ruled that the FTC’s reliance on the PlayStation chief’s testimony was unpersuasive, while Microsoft and Activision’s efforts will help avoid market concentration. Getty Images reader comments 174 with A federal judge in San Francisco… Read More »
reader comments 43 with The technology that underpins ChatGPT has the potential to do much more than just talk. Linxi “Jim” Fan, an AI researcher at the chipmaker Nvidia, worked with some colleagues to devise a way to set the powerful language model GPT-4—the “brains” behind ChatGPT and a growing number of other apps and… Read More »
The Legends of Heroes series has steadily gone from a series that was underneath my radar for years to one of my most consistent favorite JRPG series. Where other JRPG series have leaned more into action-based combat and Western elements in recent years, the Trails series has generally built on the elements that have traditionally… Read More »