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Friday, 8 May 2015

The Witcher 3 Gets its Best Trailer yet with RAGE & STEEL

The Witcher 3 Gets its Best Trailer yet with RAGE & STEEL
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Thursday, 7 May 2015

Engineers of addiction

Slot machines perfected addictive gaming. Now, tech wants their tricks.
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Human vs machine as top poker pros take on AI

It's humans versus machine at the Rivers casino in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Four professional poker players are squaring up to an artificial intelligence over two weeks, duking it out by playing a total of 80,000 hands of poker for a $100,000 cash prize. This may turn out to be the latest instalment in a grand tradition of computers beating us at our own games. In 1997, IBM's Deep Blue computer famously beat chess great Garry Kasparov. Four years ago, IBM's Watson took part in the TV quiz show.
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Saturday, 2 May 2015

Why Silent Hill mattered

On the end of a great, mad era for video games
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The Kickstarter-Funded Broken Age Was Supposed to Herald a New Era of Gaming. It Didn’t.

To paraphrase a bit of Internet wisdom, experts agree that pop culture was at its peak when you—yes you—were 12 years old. Most of us never escape the spell of the things we loved when we were young ...
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Friday, 1 May 2015

Spiritual Successor to Banjo-Kazooie Reveals Its Lead Characters

Meet Yooka and Laylee, the lead characters in Yooka-Laylee, the new 3D platformer from the creative team behind Banjo-Kazooie and Donkey Kong Country. Yooka is the chameleon and Laylee, the bat, and if the dynamic and style seems familiar it’s because they were created by Steve Mayles, the same character artist who designed platforming icons Banjo and Kazooie and the modern Kong family during his time at Rare.
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The Era of Japan's All-Powerful Videogame Designers Is Over

Hideo Kojima's exit from Konami isn't just the end of Metal Gear as we know it. It's the end of the era of big-name directors running the show in Japan.
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