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We're still waiting for the first truly great Game of Thrones video game
For a time, Game of Thrones was on top of the world. Based on George R.R. Martin's still-unfinished A Song of Ice and Fire novels, HBO's show was the last vestige of monoculture from its premiere in 2011 to 2019. Its eighth and final season…
Taylor Sheridan's Highly Anticipated Adaptation of Hit Video Game Officially Sets Release Date
The Call of Duty movie has been given an official release date. While the upcoming big screen adaptation of the beloved video game series is highly anticipated, it is going to take some time for it to get here. During the Paramount Pictures panel…
Training Physical AI on Video Game Clips
What I Read This Week: a summary of the content that I consumed this past week… 1) Training Physical AI on Video Game Clips On June 25, General Intuition raised $320 million at a $2.3 billion valuation, led by Khosla Ventures, with General…
GTA 6, Steam Machine, Xbox price hikes, and Destiny layoffs herald the end times
Patch Notes is a weekly newsletter bringing you the best of Polygon, sent on Fridays and published on the site on Sundays. You can subscribe here. When it comes to a topic for this edition of Patch Notes, I'm spoilt for choice, but it's all bad…
Sadiq Khan wants London to be world's esports capital
Kumail Jaffer Local Democracy Reporting Service Sir Sadiq Khan has set out his ambition for London to become the global capital of competitive video gaming, known as esports, as City Hall looks to capitalise on the industry's growing economic…
Sadiq Khan wants London to be world's esports capital
Sir Sadiq Khan has set out his ambition for London to become the global capital of competitive video gaming, known as esports, as City Hall looks to capitalise on the industry's growing economic value. The mayor made the announcement on Thursday…
Employees Are Using Their Jobs' Super-Expensive AI Tokens for the Most Hilariously Pointless Tasks Imaginable
Can't-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Under all the bluster of AI hype lies a real conundrum: companies are charging out-of-this-world prices for a tool that still can't match the value of a competent human. As AI…
Today's NYT Strands Hint And Answers For Monday, June 29 (The Mark Of A Good Composer)
Today's NYT Strands hints and answers. Before today's Strands hints, spangram and answers, here are Sunday's: ForbesToday's NYT Strands Hint, Spangram And Answers For Sunday, June 28 (March In June) Hey, folks! Today's NYT Strands hints, spangram…
Teaching An AI To Play A Racing Game Via Screen Input
If you're a fleshy human, you probably learn to play video games by looking at the screen and pressing the buttons, and maybe copying the way you've seen others play the game before. [tryfonaskam] has recently been trying to teach an AI to play…
The Supergirl Open-World RPG Of Your Dreams Is Officially Here
Supergirl, unlike her cousin, hasn't had a video game. Sure, it isn't as if Superman has had a good video game, but not getting one at all is a little ridiculous. She's a phenomenal character, one who has grown far more nuanced and interesting with…
Fallout 5 Official Teaser Leaves Gamers Torn
The release of the second season of the Fallout adaptation on Prime Video has once again brought attention back around to the post-apocalyptic franchise, but from a video game perspective, it's a bit of a bleak time. Fallout 5 has been greenlit…
Military AI is reinventing war at the expense of all previous theories and many sacred cows
If you give someone a weapon nobody knows quite how to use, nobody can be sure what's going to happen. A raging torrent of military AI news is reshaping everything from logistics to intelligence to basic tactics daily. It's turning strategy into a…
We're Getting the Wrong Rare Game Adaptation With Sea of Thieves
Xbox has officially announced a live-action movie based on Sea of Thieves, which will be directed by Destin Daniel Cretton. Since launching in 2018, Sea of Thieves has been a big success story for Xbox and developer Rare. With more than 40 million…
I left Google after making nearly $1M in a year. Fears about layoffs and missing out on the AI boom gave me the push.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Yousuf Imran, a 41-year-old former account executive at Google based in the Bay Area. It's been edited for length and clarity. I earned nearly $1 million last year as an account executive at…
8 Reasons It's Tough to Play PS2 Games Today
Sony's PlayStation 2 is the best-selling video game console of all time, but that doesn't mean it's worth booting up in the modern era, as the system is very much a product of its time, serving as a transitional period for the industry as a whole.
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