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When it was released back in 1993, Disney’s Aladdin for the Sega Genesis (or Mega Drive, depending on which side of the pond you lived on through the early 90’s) was really a visually striking game. Powered by what eventually became known as “Digicel” technology, along with a solid selection of middleware and some…
Information regarding Nintendo's rollout of the Nintendo Network shutdown
Nintendo Labo lets anyone easily pick up and enjoy making, playing and discovering. By assembling sheets of cardboard into a variety of shapes called Toy-Con, and combining them with Nintendo Switch, you can bring them to life!
Earlier this year, we shared that we are building a completely new browser called Firefox Reality. The mixed reality team at Mozilla set out to build a web
Google has long collaborated with musicians, producers, and artists in the research and development of music AI tools. Ever since launching the Magenta project, in 2016, we’ve been exploring how AI can enhance creativity — sparking inspiration, facilitating exploration and enabling new forms of expression, always…
Posted by Andeep Singh Toor, Stadia Software Engineer and Fred Bertsch, Software Engineer, Google Research, Brain Team Creating art for digital vid...
Steam Deck creator Pierre-Loup Griffais explains that Valve is funding ARM compatibility layers for future ultraportables.
The New York Times crossword has been an integral part of daily life for many people since it started appearing in print in 1942. When The…
Every single GameCube game can at least boot in Dolphin 5.0. Except one. Star Wars: The Clone Wars and its complex way of using the PowerPC Memory Management Unit rendered it unplayable in Dolphin up to this day. But finally as of Dolphin 5.0-540, this challenge has come and gone: Dolphin can finally boot every single…
The Microsoft Excel add-in is here!
I've been a long-time player of Banished on Mac OSX via Crossover Office/Wine and Banished crashes so often I can no longer play it. I have an old Windows box but it can't handle the game's graphics; even with a newer graphics card.
Bringing together the world’s brightest minds and the latest accelerated computing technology leads to powerful breakthroughs that help tackle some of the biggest research problems....
Four years ago I began a journey. On Feb 5 2014 I posted the results of the RPG Codex’s Top 70 poll, in which we elected the best CRPGs of all time. But I felt that a simple list was too dry&…
Game-playing artificial intelligence (AI) systems have advanced to a new frontier. Stratego, the classic board game that’s more complex than chess and Go, and craftier than poker, has now been mastered. Published in Science, we present DeepNash, an AI agent that learned the game from scratch to a human expert level by…
Remember when IBM’s Deep Blue won against Gary Kasparov at chess in 1996, or Google’s AlphaGo crushed the top champion Lee Sedol at Go, a much more complex game, in 2016? These competitions where machines prevailed over human champions are key milestones in the history of artificial intelligence. Now a group of…
Introducing CS Bench: we ask all top models to build a multiplayer Counter-Strike from scratch.
On the Dolphin Forums, one of the more common questions that come up is "How come I can emulate this Wii game just fine but this GameCube game is slow?" While those more knowledgeable about the intricacies of emulation may roll their eyes, it does warrant some explanation. Usually when...
Our project to preserve the history of Sega Channel — including over 100 new Sega Channel ROMs.
With just three stones on the board, it was clear that this was going to be no ordinary game of Go.
The Entertainment Software Association doesn’t want anyone to restore the functionality of older videogames that are no longer supported by their publisher, because, says ESA, this is “hacking,” and all hacking is “associated with piracy.” EFF, along with law student Kendra Albert, is asking the...
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