An AI has recreated Pac-Man without ever actually playing Pac-Man, a feat akin to understanding, say, a mouse simply by watching it scamper through a maze.
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Beyond Humanity is a board game that uses real AI
A new game called Beyond Humanity: Colonies promises to liven up board game night with a little machine learning. Created by a Polish team called Three Headed Monster, the game uses traditional board game mechanics with a few technological smarts.
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The $200 Analogue Pocket is the perfect retro gaming handheld
Analogue has been making clever remakes of old consoles and now they’ve one-upped themselves with the Pocket. The device, which is about as big as the original Game Boy, can play Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance games – the cartridges, not the ROM files – and will be able to play Game Gear, Neo Geo Pocket Color and Atari Lynx with upcoming adapters.
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The Nintendo Switch Lite is a gaming console for adults
The Switch was an impressively fun piece of hardware. Thanks to the removable Joy-Cons and the HDMI-based dock system it picked up where with Wii U left off, offering portable and TV-based gameplay in one small package.
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An oral history of Snake
Few games are as iconic and addictive as Nokia’s Snake. The game, in which a snake eats pellets until it is too big to maneuver, is a classic, a nail-biting bit of fun that turned the early Nokia phones into blockbuster hits.
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Want modern portable gaming? Why not the Nintendo Switch Lite?
In yesterday’s post, I highlighted a portable gaming device that is coming out early next year. If you want something that is hitting a bit sooner (Sept 2019, to be precise), the the Nintendo Switch Lite is in your wheelhouse.
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