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AI
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LinkedIn Adds Daily Puzzle Games and AI to Increase Engagement
LinkedIn ( https://www.linkedin.com/ ) is a website I've belonged to for many years now. In internet times, eons. Their logo with the emphasis on the word "in" is catchy. It's great branding. A lesson in marketing,…
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The EU AI Act of August 1, 2024 Considers Videogames "Minimal Risk"
Of course governments are getting involved with AI. It's inevitable. Back when I first began playing games, in the arcades, at home, late 70s and early 80s, and there was some sort of computer AI opponent, I didn't…
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OPINION: Maybe the problem isn't AI, it's too many people working on a single game?
( Ed. full transparency, the image pictured above is AI-generated, as are most placeholder top images here at PGM, the rest of this article and all PGM articles by Todd Russell are 100% written by a human being, zero…
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Research Finds More Enjoyable Playing Games with Robots than Solo
Inarguably, AI was the big news of 2023 and spilled over into CES 2024 (related: Didn’t Go? It’s OK, Here’s Why I Stopped Following and Covering CES ) in a big way, including the whole concept of AI companionship. These…
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PGM Experiment: Suno AI Music Generator to Create Arcade, Videogame and Pinball Songs
And here not long ago, I said that AI wouldn't be useful for anything (this article in particular takes a very cold look at AI: OPINION: Google’s AI Genie Creating Faux 2D Platformer Games Likely Another Idea They Give…
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Sony Apologizes for Publishing Internal Interview Misrepresenting Studio Views on AI and More
Sometimes the wheels of PR spin come off. Then again, this could be tail wagging the dog. In this example, the tail is AI and the dog is Sony. Maybe . If you want to focus on AI being pushed as a narrative, because it's…
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Directing A.I. for Gamer Anyalsis: HD2 Stratagies for Manipulation - the Good Game
Ed. This is the third installment in Lucifer Bob's fascinating ongoing ChatGPT AI gameplay world analysis of Helldivers 2 (HD2), read his previous articles here: April 8, 2024 - Helldivers 2: Manufacturing Consent &…
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OPINION: New Google AI Search Chat Results Will Suck for Gaming, Everything
The long reign of Google being #1 in search will soon have a foundation built around -- you guessed it -- AI. Am having an immediate negative reaction to this: At its annual developer conference this week, tech giant…
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After 6 Hours of Practice, AI Robot Breaks Labyrinth Game World Record
Not sure if this is something gamers should look forward to or not: the rise of AI robot opponents: The robot received 6.06 hours of practice. Impressively, it beat the previous world record set by Lars Göran…
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Diving into the Helldiver Narrative with Bob: ‘The Soul at Work’ in Automatons
Welcome all Helldivers, gamers, and lookie-loos, I will be submitting a, to be determined, number of articles based on my contemplations of Helldivers 1 and 2. This is my 2nd Helldivers 2 article so let’s begin our…
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Good, Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzeneggar are Done with Terminator Movies, but James Cameron Isn't
No, legendary director, James Cameron, is not done with Terminator. Whether it's his massive cinematic ego or a true desire to tell (at least) one more Terminator story, Cameron says he's working on another script, this…
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Helldivers 2: Manufacturing Consent & Behavioral Modification or Game Theory with Bob
As many of you know I have been avidly playing Helldivers 2 ( Steam , $39.99). But I’ve been playing mostly in the dark, that is I haven’t until very recently looked up much information about the game. I was told, ‘hey…
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OPINION: Google's AI Genie Creating Faux 2D Platformer Games Likely Another Idea They Give Up on Too Soon
Bonus article tonight because my newsreader is blowing up on Google's new AI Genie. There is no link to the Genie AI service yet (not public yet), but you can google "Google Genie " if you want to get lost in the rabbit…
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Generative AI may greatly expand NPC character interactions within next five years
We've been playing around with AI on our Twitch, through the use of clones, AI-created voices based on real audio clips using Eleven Labs generative AI ( https://elevenlabs.io/ ). Fun stuff, and if you feed with diverse…
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KISS Tease Future Entertainment Immortality with Digital Avatars
Multiple KISS pinball machines through history, with the first by Bally in 1979 At the start of December 2023, the rock and roll band KISS gave their "final" concert in Madison Square Garden. It wasn't the end, or so it…
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Developer Admits NBA Jam Is Rigged Against The Bulls
Love me some NBA Jam. In the 90s a co-worker and I at a restaurant job in a mall would go down to the arcade and play through the game beating every single team with our save progress in tact. Alas, we learned quickly…
