Tag: Video games

Immersive, 3D, and ultra-fast displays take over video games at CES 2024
14Jan By adminNo Comments
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Immersive, 3D, and ultra-fast displays take over video games at CES 2024

[ad_1] For decades, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has been the platform to announce some of the most influential innovations in gaming. 2024 is no different as big companies like Xbox, PlayStation and Samsung made some giant gamer-related announcements at the conference, which took place in Las Vegas, Nevada from 9 - 12 January.From ergonomic controllers of the future, to comfortable headrests for gamer chairs, and powerful new graphics cards, there was no shortage of slick new technology on display for the gaming community at CES. However, after the dust settled in the Las Vegas desert, perhaps the most notable theme in gaming to come out of CES was displays. We are now on WhatsApp. Click to join. Over the years, advancements in virtual reality (VR) and graphics cards have moved ...
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What to stream this week: Chris Stapleton, Call of Duty, ‘The Killer,’ Tim Allen’s Santa return
6Nov By adminNo Comments
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What to stream this week: Chris Stapleton, Call of Duty, ‘The Killer,’ Tim Allen’s Santa return

[ad_1] Country superstar Chris Stapleton's fifth studio album and a documentary about Albert Brooks that includes Steven Spielberg, David Letterman, Ben Stiller, Larry David, Chris Rock and Wanda Sykes are some of the new television, movies, music and games headed to a device near you. Also among the offerings worth your time as selected by The Associated Press' entertainment journalists are Michael Fassbender playing a hitman in David Fincher's “The Killer," Tim Allen putting on his Santa suit for season two of “The Santa Clauses” and “The Buccaneers,” Apple TV 's eight-episode series answer to “Bridgerton.” NEW MOVIES TO STREAM — Michael Fassbender plays an unnamed hitman in David Fincher's “The Killer,” debuting on Netflix on Friday, Nov. 10. It's based on a French graphic novel and...
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France’s Le Maire Says Nvidia’s AI Dominance Stifles Competition
5Nov By adminNo Comments
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France’s Le Maire Says Nvidia’s AI Dominance Stifles Competition

[ad_1]  Nvidia Corp.'s dominance in artificial intelligence is causing “growing inequalities” between countries and is stifling fair competition, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire warned.“Having just one single country with all the technologies, all the private companies, all of the devices, all the skills, would be a failure for all of us,” Le Maire told reporters at the UK's AI Safety Summit in Bletchley Park, north of London. He said 92% of graphics processing units — AI accelerators — are owned by Nvidia.  We are now on WhatsApp. Click to join. The European Union is examining alleged anticompetitive abuses in chips used for AI, a market that's dominated by Nvidia Corp, Bloomberg reported in September. The US company's dominant role in supplying chips for artificial intelligence...
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AI Startup Aims to Give Voice Actors a Digital Twin
14Oct By adminNo Comments
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AI Startup Aims to Give Voice Actors a Digital Twin

[ad_1] Over the years, Cissy Jones, a voice actor with many credits, including video games Starfield and Baldur's Gate III, has performed countless fictional mishaps. Death by gunshot, she said, is easy. Whereas death by fire can be long and tedious. One time, she played an astronaut in space who woke up breathing tensely. Ten minutes into the scene, Jones says she came close to passing out.“Imagine your paycheck being dependent upon being able to sustain that,” Jones said If Jones and her business partners succeed, sometime soon she may no longer have to. Such work, she said, will simply be outsourced to her “digital twin,” a vocal doppelganger powered by artificial intelligence. We are now on WhatsApp. Click to join.Jones is the co-founder and vice president of strategic partnerships ...
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Video games give sports stars second life
29Sep By adminNo Comments
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Video games give sports stars second life

[ad_1] The post-retirement careers of the biggest sports stars can be fascinating to watch -- Viagra ads, property ventures, crypto projects -- but one option is becoming a sure-fire winner: put your face on the cover of a video game.And death is no barrier for this particular career, with two popular games this year choosing sports legends who are no longer with us. LA Lakers basketball star Kobe Bryant, who died in a helicopter accident in 2020, graces the cover of "NBA 2K24". And two of the world's greatest footballers from bygone eras -- Pele and Johan Cruyff -- get posthumous respect with their figures emblazoned on "FC 24" from EA Sports.They are joined on the cover of the EA game by a galaxy of still-living stars of the more recent past -- Zinedine Zidane and Ronaldinho -- and pr...
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AI revolution in video games has industry players treading warily
27Aug By adminNo Comments
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AI revolution in video games has industry players treading warily

[ad_1] From generating storylines to coding entire games to turning ideas into animation, artificial intelligence is front and centre at Gamescom, one of the video game industry's biggest fairs.But even the ultra-connected industry is eyeing the innovation warily, with fears growing that jobs could be made redundant and artistic creations usurped. "AI is really a turning point," according to Julien Millet, an AI engineer and founder of United Bits Game studio, who attended the industry fair this week. Responsive non-playable characters or the automatic generation of images, code and game scenarios are among the possible uses for developers using AI.AI is also capable of instantly producing illustrations from text, allowing producers to better "transmit their vision", according to Millet...
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Playstation 6 and Next-Gen Xbox expected to debut in 2028, reveal Court documents
26Jun By adminNo Comments
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Playstation 6 and Next-Gen Xbox expected to debut in 2028, reveal Court documents

[ad_1] Sony's Playstation consoles have garnered a significant fanbase in India, with gamers appreciating their impressive gaming capabilities. While the Playstation 5 (PS5) remains a popular choice among gamers, recent findings from court documents accessed by IGN suggest that the next generation of Playstation and Xbox consoles may make their debut as early as 2028.In a legal case regarding Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard in a US court, the tech giant stated its expectation for the official release of the next generation gaming consoles in 2028. This projection indicates that successors to the current generation, including the PS5 and Xbox X and S, could potentially arrive after an eight-year interval. The information regarding the upcoming consoles was revealed in docu...
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When is an eSport not an eSport? Olympic event puzzles gamers
23Jun By adminNo Comments
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When is an eSport not an eSport? Olympic event puzzles gamers

[ad_1] ESports has long been derided as "not a real sport". But now, an Olympic-organised event is being dismissed by competitive gamers as not real eSports.Many long-time backers of big-money digital contests, which are edging their way towards elite-level recognition, are puzzled by the choice of games at the inaugural Olympics Esports Week that kicks off in Singapore on Thursday. Instead of well-established gaming titles, it will feature 10 simulated sports, among them archery, baseball, chess, and taekwondo. Aficionados are concerned with the choice of virtual sports -- that is, digital recreations of real-world events -- rather than eSports, which are essentially video games played at an elite competitive level.With popular video games such as "Counter-Strike" and "DOTA 2", eSports...
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Playing video game causes no harm to cognitive abilities: Study
13Feb By adminNo Comments
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Playing video game causes no harm to cognitive abilities: Study

[ad_1] New research findings call into question parents' long-held beliefs that children who spend hours upon hours playing video games or chose games of certain genres, will have negative effects on their cognitive abilities. "Our studies turned up no such links, regardless of how long the children played and what types of games they chose," said Jie Zhang, associate professor of curriculum and instruction at the University of Houston College of Education and a member of the research team. The work is published in the Journal of Media Psychology. In reaching the conclusions, researchers examined the video gaming habits of 160 diverse urban public-school preteen students (70 per cent from lower-income households), which represents an age group less studied in previous research. Pa...
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China’s video game makers come in from the cold as crackdown eases
22Jan By adminNo Comments
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China’s video game makers come in from the cold as crackdown eases

[ad_1] China's end to a sweeping crackdown on its video games market is expected to breathe life back into the battered industry this year. China's end to a sweeping crackdown on its video games market is expected to breathe life back into the battered industry this year, but remaining restrictions on some content and economic headwinds will limit the extent of the recovery. Beijing's tough curbs in 2021 laid waste to the once-booming industry, shaving over half of the market value of sector leaders like Tencent Holdings and NetEase Inc and shrinking the world's biggest gaming market for the first time. Shares of Tencent, the world's largest gaming company, and NetEase rose this week after China's video games regulator granted the first gaming licences in 2...
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