Pearl Abyss unveiled the believable, hyper-realistic graphics of the BlackSpace Engine that is at the heart of Crimson Desert.Read More
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‘Gradually then suddenly’: Is AI job displacement following this pattern?
Many technological shifts have coincided with economic downturns. Will 2025 be the year AI not only augments jobs but starts to replace them?Read More
The open-source AI debate: Why selective transparency poses a serious risk
It is misleading to call AI open source when no one can look at, experiment with and understand each element that went into creating it.Read More
Minecraft will drop two new games and more movie details
Minecraft announced details for the next two game drops, Spring to Life and the next vanilla game drop, called Vibrant Visuals.Read More
Less is more: UC Berkeley and Google unlock LLM potential through simple sampling
With multiple sampling and self-verification, Gemini 1.5 Pro can outperform o1-preview in reasoning tasks.Read More
Monica Harrington was the hidden figure of Valve in its critical early years | The DeanBeat
It’s funny how people slip out of history. The story of Valve’s formation in its critical early years and how it made the original Half-Life is an inspiring one. I was one of the people who attempted to capture the story of the storytelling shooter game, but my relatively short story in 1998 for the Wall Street Journal left a key contac…Read More
Elda Entertainment will publish Overseer Games’ Kaiserpunk on March 21
Elda Entertainment and Overseer Games announced that Kaiserpunk, a grand city building and world conquest game, is marching toward a launch on March 21. Elda Entertainment is a brand new publisher with a vision to deliver the best management games, and it’s teamed up with Zagreb, Croatia-based Overseer Games on the project. Blending productio…Read More
Small models as paralegals: LexisNexis distills models to build AI assistant
LexisNexis fine-tuned Mistral models to build its Protege AI assistant, relying on distilled and small models for its AI platform.Read More
Remedy unveils FBC: Firebreak — a 3-player co-op multiplayer FPS in the Control universe
Remedy Entertainment unveiled a new gameplay trailer for FBC: Firebreak, a three-player co-op FPS where the Federal Bureau of Control’s first-response unit must contain an escalating paranatural threat. When the Oldest House, the Bureau’s shifting headquarters, falls under siege by a relentless paranatural force, only Firebreak – its most adaptabl…Read More
ESA launches a major accessibility initiative at GDC
The ESA introduced the Accessible Games Initiative to provide players with information about accessibility features in video games.Read More