A petri dish of human neurons has learned to play Doom: 'The cells play a lot like a beginner who's never seen a computer, and in fairness, they haven't'

Understandably, you're likely scratching your head, wondering how it's even possible for a petri dish to play Doom. Good question. The answer is the CL1, "the world’s first code ...
Rock Paper Shotgun

Marathon's story is told like it's a single player game and that's no good when my friends are talking on Discord

Bungie are telling Marathon's story like it's a single player game and that is not well-suited to a multiplayer extraction shooter ...
Fox Business

Dave & Buster's offers chance to win diamond engagement ring by playing 'Human Crane' game on Valentine's Day

Dave & Busters is offering people the chance to score a diamond engagement ring by participating in a "Human Crane" game at certain locations this Valentine's Day. Based on videos of the ride ...
Penn Live

Sports bar and arcade chain is offering real $15K engagement rings in its claw machine

You’d never believe what Dave & Buster’s is doing this coming Valentine’s Day. If you’re looking to propose to your sweetheart anytime soon, preferably on Valentine’s Day, you might be lucky enough to ...
Reuters

Broncos’ Jarrett Stidham: Once AFC title game begins, ‘it’s just football’

January 23 - Denver Broncos offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi found out about his starting quarterback's fractured ankle when his son told him on their drive home from Sunday's game. "I didn't ...
PC Gamer

'This game could never be made by AI… it's too human,' says Baldur's Gate 3 actor Neil Newbon after wrapping a playthrough on stream

RPG 'We lost things such as physics in games:' The dev behind my most anticipated RPG thinks players are craving more interactive games, not just 'moving around in a static 3D environment' AI Judging ...
Gizmodo

After ‘Pluribus’, Revisit Rhea Seehorn’s Next Best Genre Role: ‘Magic: The Gathering’ Tutorial Sorceress

Pluribus season one has ended. As the wait for season two of the Apple TV series begins, newly minted fans of lead actor Rhea Seehorn are discovering something fans of her work on Better Call Saul ...
AV Club

Once a novelty, full-motion video is now a useful tool for game designers

If you played video games in the 1980s and ‘90s, then you’re probably already familiar with full-motion video (FMV), which was a way of telling stories using pre-recorded video files instead of the ...
GameSpot

No Man's Sky Boss Reacts To Assets Allegedly Being Re-Used By Once Human

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. No Man's Sky and Once Human are a pair of games that don't have a lot in common. Regardless, fans have noticed that Starry Studio, the developer ...
GamesRadar+

No Man's Sky lead responds to reports of stolen assets in fellow open-world survival game Once Human, says the "joke's on them" because they're actually unfinished

Survival Games No Man's Sky dev says sorry "it took so long" to add corvettes to Switch 1, but it "was a difficult technical challenge" Survival Games No Man's Sky's latest patch fixes a bug that's in ...
Forbes

‘Once Upon A Katamari’ Review: The King Must Speak

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. I remember importing the Japanese version of Katamari Damacy in ...
Homeland Security Today

How Skull Games Helped Ignite Oklahoma’s Anti-Trafficking Revolution

When I was appointed as the first Director of the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Human Trafficking Response Unit (HTRU), I was tasked with something that had never been done before: building a unified, ...