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In a tweet, Neuralink patient Noland Arbaugh revealed that he's spending roughly three hours a day learning French and Japanese.

Neuroscience and Brain

First Neuralink Patient Using It to Learn New Languages

By Victor Tangermann

Neuralink's second human participant is already playing first-person shooter game "Counter-Strike 2" by using his mind for controls.

Neuroscience and Brain

Latest Patient Implanted With Neuralink Is Using It to Play “Counter-Strike 2”

By Victor Tangermann

Nvidia dominates both the AI chip and gaming hardware market. And so its CEO Jensen Huang eagerly anticipates the two technologies colliding.

Artificial Intelligence

Nvidia CEO Says Video Games Will Be Totally Infused With AI

By Frank Landymore

According to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, fully AI-generated video games are only five to ten years away.

Artificial Intelligence

Nvidia CEO: Soon There’ll Be Games Where AI Generates “Every Pixel”

By Victor Tangermann

SAG-AFTRA has signed a deal with an AI firm to license its artists' voices in video games — but nobody knows who approved it.

Artificial Intelligence

Voice Actors Shocked By Union’s Sudden Deal Allowing AI-Generated Performances

By Noor Al-Sibai

After its lengthy strike over artificial intelligence, SAG-AFTRA has decided to allow the use of AI "voice acting" in video games.

Artificial Intelligence

SAG-AFTRA Inks Controversial Deal to Allow AI-Generated Voice Acting

By Noor Al-Sibai

The "highly motivated" 18-year-old hacker who leaked GTA VI footage will stay in a secure hospital unless he is deemed no longer a threat.

GTA 6 Hacker Committed to Hospital Indefinitely After Vowing to Strike Again

By Frank Landymore

Musk claimed he didn't like "Grand Theft Auto V" because he "didn't like doing crime." The internet mocked him mercilessly.

Elon Musk Relentlessly Mocked for Saying Violent Video Games Are Bad

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft's Xbox division has partnered with Inworld AI, a Silicon Valley-based company, to collaborate on AI NPCs.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Working on AI-Powered NPCs for Xbox Games

By Victor Tangermann

A new game seems to have used AI instead of real, human voiceover actors, and man, are the professionals mad.

Artificial Intelligence

Voice Actors Furious at New Videogame Using AI-Generated Speech

By Noor Al-Sibai

A study of gamers in Portugal reveals that most get physical activity, have healthy diets, and play for reasonable amounts of time.

Shocking Research Discovers That Gamers Are Overall Pretty Healthy

By Frank Landymore

Unity is retroactively implementing changes to its payment plans that would charge a fee for every installation of a game using the engine.

Game Developers Outraged After Unity Engine Slaps Ludicrous Fee on Every Game Install

By Frank Landymore

An impatient gamer criticized the graphics of what they expected to be in-game screenshots from "Starfield." They were real images from Mars.

Guy Complains Images From Video Game Look Bad, But They’re Real NASA Photos of Mars

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk most certainly has his fanboys — but it appears that the adherents of one first-person-shooter roleplaying game are not among them.

Huge Crowd of Gamers Boos Elon Musk for Ruining Twitter

By Noor Al-Sibai

Global Illuminations' team, which made an open source Minecraft game, will work on OpenAI "core products including ChatGPT."

OpenAI Just Bought a Game Studio Working on a “Minecraft” Clone

By Frank Landymore

Steam, one of the world's largest video game storefronts is reportedly not having any of this AI generated stuff.

Artificial Intelligence

Steam Is Apparently Rejecting Games Using AI Generated Assets

By Frank Landymore

A modder has taken advantage of the wonders of ChatGPT to give NPCs in the popular video game Skyrim the ability to come up with new dialogue.

ChatGPT Mod Allows NPCs in Skyrim to Make Up New Dialogue

By Victor Tangermann

"Portopia," an icon of text-based adventures games, got the AI treatment for a new release. The AI made the game borderline unplayable.

Artificial Intelligence

An AI-Powered Videogame Just Came Out and Gamers HATE It

By Frank Landymore

The triple-A video game developer has unveiled its new "Ghostwriter" tool, which in theory will save writers the extra effort of writing a zillion "barks."

Artificial Intelligence

Ubisoft Develops Tool to Crank Out Video Game Dialogue Using AI

By Frank Landymore

Roblox is allowing young children to play some seriously questionable games that should have parents concerned.

Mom Horrified by What Her Kids Are Seeing in Roblox

By Victor Tangermann

Ross Chastain didn't look like he was going to advance to the next stage of NASCAR's Championship — until he pulled off a move he learned from video games.

NASCAR Driver Avoids Elimination With Insanely Ballsy Maneuver He Learned From a Video Game

By Frank Landymore

Upscaling the iconic 1993 fighting game Virtua fighter using AI, creating comically photorealistic models of the characters? Why not.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Makes 1993 Video Game Look Photorealistic

By Frank Landymore

In the never ending challenge to get the video game DOOM to run on wildly differing platforms, this programmer managed to run it in DOOM itself.

Rejoice, Gamers! You Can Now Run DOOM Inside DOOM

By Frank Landymore

A Chinese gamer has posted classified military information on the forum of a tank video game to get developers to change the stats of the game's tanks.

Chinese Military Secrets Leaked on Video Game Forum

By Victor Tangermann

Kids who played video games saw a positive impact on their intelligence, European scientists say in new study published in the Nature journal.

Good News, Gamers! That Screen Time Could Make You a Little Smarter, Scientists Say

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A group of Russian teenagers got in trouble this week for planning to blow up a fake government building built in Minecraft. One was sentenced to prison.

Teen Sentenced to Prison for Plotting Terror Attack in Minecraft

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Square Enix president Yosuke Matsuda wants the company to lead blockchain and decentralized video games, as well as NFTs, even if players aren't on board.

President of Games Company Says He Knows People Hate NFTs But He Thinks They’re Good

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The Chinese government is forcing gaming companies to limit online gaming availability to just three hours a week to children in the country.

China Says Minors Can Only Play Three Hours of Online Games Per Week

By Victor Tangermann

Chinese state media ran an article on Tuesday calling video games opium for children, and the country's tech giants are already adding new restrictions.

Chinese State Media Compares Video Games to Addictive Drugs for Kids

By Dan Robitzski

A new mod for "The Witcher 3" uses AI to churn out new lines in an actor's voice, raising serious questions about how automation will impact artists.

Artificial Intelligence

Video Game Voice Actors Alarmed by New AI Voice Technology

By Dan Robitzski

Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak tweeted that the term "video game" won't properly encapsulate the digital entertainment neuralink is working on.

Neuralink Co-Founder: “We’re Gonna Need a Better Term Than ‘Video Game'”

By Dan Robitzski

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey recently said that video games would be a whole lot more interesting if we faced real-world danger for dying in-game.

Robots and Machines

Oculus Founder Suggests Video Games That Kill You in Real Life

By Dan Robitzski

Game developer CD Projekt Red, creator of video games including Cyberpunk 2077, became the victim of a targeted cyberattack.

Hackers Apparently Stole the “Cyberpunk 2077” Source Code

By Victor Tangermann

A promo video shows gamers running around their city, taking cover behind real cars and buildings, while playing an augmented reality first-person shooter.

This Augmented Reality First Person Shooter Looks Pretty Awesome

By Dan Robitzski

A professional "Call of Duty" player had to retire from his eSports career after an injury to his thumb and wrist came back.

Professional Gamer Retires After Career-Ending Injury to Thumb

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla CEO and cyberpunk genre enthusiast Elon Musk waited into the conversation surrounding Cyberpunk 2077's terrible launch.

Elon Musk Has Some Strong Opinions About Cyberpunk 2077

By Victor Tangermann

In a move that makes the game a bit more appropriate to our current reality, "Plague Inc" made a mode where players stop rather than spread a pandemic.

Science & Energy

Reading the Room, “Plague Inc” Makes Game About Stopping Pandemics

By Dan Robitzski

A new Amazon patent describes how trolls and toxic gamers could be sequestered into their own matches full of other trolls.

Science & Energy

Amazon Patent Makes the Most Horrible Gamers Play With Each Other

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists build a recreation of the Nintendo Game Boy that works without any batteries to demonstrate new ways to build clean gadgets.

Battery-Free Game Boy Powered by Force of Mashing Buttons

By Dan Robitzski

With large gatherings banned — and ill-advised anyway — eSports may be the best way to scratch your competitive itch for the time being.

Goddamn, I Guess We Need to Get Into eSports Now

By Dan Robitzski

The NBA 2019-2020 season has been postponed because of the coronavirus outbreak. But someone has an idea to save it. It's either awful or genius.

A Chaotic, Awful, Great Idea to Save the NBA is Here

By Foster Kamer

Japanese company Bauhutte has come up with the perfect solution to surviving a 14-day quarantine: a $1,200 gaming bed concept.

You Literally Never Have to Get Out of This $1,200 Gaming Bed

By Victor Tangermann

Chess is one of the fastest-growing games on the video game streaming platform Twitch as hundreds of thousands tune in to watch masters strategize.

Yasssss Queen: Chess Is Finally Becoming the Next Big eSport

By Dan Robitzski

A new roleplaying game uses a powerful AI algorithm to generate a text-based adventure in real time. And unlike past versions, the story makes sense.

Artificial Intelligence

This Roleplaying AI Makes a Great Dungeon Master

By Dan Robitzski

In the video game "Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice," players see the world through the eyes of a young warrior suffering from severe mental health issues.

Health & Medicine

This Award-Winning Video Game Lets You Experience Psychosis

By Kristin Houser

Players of the game "Counter-Strike: Global Offensive" are using the game's loot boxes and Steam Community Market as a massive money laundering scheme.

Criminals Are Using Video Game Loot Boxes to Launder Money

By Victor Tangermann

A new meta-study concluded that mass shootings perpetrated by black people are blamed on external factors, while white shootings were linked to video games.

Researchers: Blaming Violent Video Games for Shootings is Racist

By Victor Tangermann

A new AI tool that can turns selfies into fully-rendered characters in the video game "Justice Online." Apparently it's been used 1 million times.

Artificial Intelligence

Amazing AI Turns Your Selfie Into a 3D Video Game Character

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists determined which personality traits and other factors are most closely associated with internet gaming disorder.

Health & Medicine

Neurotic, Introverted Men Have a Higher Risk of Gaming Addiction

By Dan Robitzski

An experimental text adventure game is generated in real-time by artificial intelligence, making for a fascinating, disjointed journey.

Artificial Intelligence

A Neural Network Dreams up This Text Adventure Game as You Play

By Dan Robitzski

A new CGI system can create a fully-rendered video game character based on a performer's motion capture data in real time.

Robots and Machines

Amazing Tech Turns You Into a CGI Character In Real Time

By Dan Robitzski

While playing rounds of capture the flag in Quake III Arena, DeepMind's artificial intelligence was able to outperform human teammates.

Artificial Intelligence

DeepMind’s Gamer AI is Better At Co-op Mode Than Human Players

By Victor Tangermann

"Minecraft Earth," announced today, will allow users to collect items, blocks, and creatures while roaming around in the real world with friends.

New “Minecraft” Game Will Let You Build Stuff in the Real World

By Victor Tangermann

An engineer built a robot that tries to punch him in real life while he fights a digital robot in a virtual reality video game.

This Robot Bludgeons You With Boxing Gloves While You Play Games

By Dan Robitzski

At roughly the same time blockbuster battle royale shooter PUBG disappeared for Chinese gamers, a new government friendly version of the game was announced.

China Replaces PUBG With Bizarre, Propaganda-Filled Clone

By Victor Tangermann

A new Microsoft patent shows an Xbox controller with a live Braille display to help visually impaired gamers get the full experience of a game or live chat.

Prosthetics and Devices

Microsoft Patented an Xbox Controller With a Braille Display

By Dan Robitzski

This Video Game Detects Alzheimer’s Earlier Than Lab Tests

Neuroscience and Brain

This Video Game Detects Alzheimer’s Earlier Than Lab Tests

By Natalie Coleman

Prince Harry recently spoke to a panel about the dangers of social media and Fortnite, the former of which he says is more addictive than drugs.

British Royalty Wants to Ban “Fortnite”

By Dan Robitzski

Mike Abinder, in-house psychologist and researcher for Valve, talked about exciting possibilities of adding brain-computer interfaces to VR headsets.

Virtual Reality

Expert: VR Headsets Should Have Brain Interfaces

By Victor Tangermann

Uber's AI lab just developed a reinforcement learning system that can learn from its mistakes. Now it can beat video games that always had AI stumped.

Artificial Intelligence

Humans Teamed up With a New Kind of AI to Crush a Notoriously Difficult Video Game

By Dan Robitzski

Australian scientists created a new kind of video game where you swallow a high-tech pill and win by changing your gut chemistry.

Prosthetics and Devices

An Edible Controller Moves Gaming From the Screen to Your Gut

By Dan Robitzski

Video Game Addiction Is Real And Professionals Aren’t Prepared To Help

Virtual Reality

Video Game Addiction Is Real And Professionals Aren’t Prepared To Help

By Victor Tangermann

During a major tournament for the strategy game DOTA 2, human gamers emerged victorious over OpenAI Five, a team of five neural networks.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Couldn’t Beat a Team of Professional Gamers at DOTA 2, but It Held Its Own

By Kristin Houser

Fortnite Didn’t Do Anything New. That’s Why It Will Shape The Future Of Gaming.

Fortnite Didn’t Do Anything New. That’s Why It Will Shape The Future Of Gaming.

By Dan Robitzski