Games: Retro, Steam, and Microsoft Being Evil
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Librarian combines loves of comics, games
The path has led Carter to his current position as video game archivist for the Computer and Video Game Archive and comics librarian — something that combines two childhood loves into a fulfilling career.
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Game Emulation via Neural Network
I made a playable Pokémon overworld. It looks (mostly) like a normal video game, and you can try it in your web browser here: A screenshot of the playable demo, showing controls overlaid on a rendered game overworld.
Although this looks like a video game, I did not write any game code. This program is actually a neural network mimicking a video game.
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Steam Deck: Huge Presence at the Tokyo Games Show 2022 - Boiling Steam
The Tokyo Games Show 2022 is just around the corner, as it is planned to open its doors on the 15th of September 2022 for 4 days. We had already known that Valve and its partner KOMODO were going to be there, but what remained to be see was in what capacity.
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Sony says Microsoft’s Call of Duty offer was ‘inadequate on many levels’ - The Verge
Sony has labeled Microsoft’s offer to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation “inadequate on many levels.” Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer revealed to The Verge last week that the company is committed to keeping Call of Duty on PlayStation for “several more years” beyond the existing marketing deal Sony has with Activision. Sony isn’t impressed, though, just as Microsoft is in the middle of trying to get its $68.7 billion Activision Blizzard deal approved by regulators.