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How medieval chess created a space in which players, regardless of race, could engage as equals

In the medieval European imagination, racial difference was often highly polarized. Black people were perceived either as ...
GamesIndustry

This mobile game has been made using AI for a year now – and no one noticed

This article is part of AI Week. For about a year now, all of the content for the mobile game Sunrise Village has been generated by AI. But far from generating a backlash from players, it seems that ...
IGN

A hair's breadth.

Sony has confirmed that Resident Evil Requiem is the first game to use its upgraded PSSR upscaler on PlayStation 5 Pro. The company made it official in a post on the PlayStation Blog, where Mark Cerny ...
New Scientist

AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations

Advanced AI models appear willing to deploy nuclear weapons without the same reservations humans have when put into simulated geopolitical crises. Kenneth Payne at King’s College London set three ...
Road to VR

‘Evangelion’ VR Game Will Primarily Use Hand-tracking, Increasing Ease-of-use at Cost of Interaction Fidelity

At the Neon Genesis Evangelion 30th Anniversary event in Tokyo this weekend, Pixelity showed off its upcoming XR game EVANGELION: Δ CROSS REFLECTIONS, revealing it’s going all-in on hand-tracking. On ...
Digital Trends

Unity will soon let you create casual games using simple text prompts

Making a video game usually means learning to code, working with complex game engines, and spending hours piecing everything together. That is true even for simple casual games. Many aspiring ...
Gizmodo

‘Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Is Using the ‘Game of Thrones’ Theme Better Than ‘House of the Dragon’ Ever Did

Ramin Djawadi’s Game of Thrones theme is one of the most iconic TV scores of the 2010s. There’s perhaps a reason, then, that when House of the Dragon began, Djawadi returned to Westeros and kind of ...
NPR

A supercomputer beat a human chess champ 30 years ago, paving a path for AI dominance

Could a machine outthink the best human mind in the world? Thirty years ago that was still an open question, but a historic matchup between a chess grandmaster and an IBM supercomputer answered it. On ...
The New York Times

Chess With an Extra Dash of Excitement: A Female Star’s Story

Framed as a sports tale, “Queen of Chess,” directed by Rory Kennedy, recounts the life of Judit Polgar, who battled sexism as much as rival players. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for ...
AOL

US chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky suffered cardiac arrhythmia after meth, kratom use — death ruled an accident

US chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky suffered cardiac issues after taking kratom and meth, according to a detailed medical examiner’s report that ruled the 29-year-old’s death an accident. Friends ...
news10nbc

Chess on ice: Inside the strategic and social game of curling

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Curling enthusiasts in Rochester are feeling the excitement as the Winter Olympics bring renewed interest to the sport. News10NBC’s Emily Putnam visited the Rochester Curling Club to ...