Swen Vincke promises an AMA to clear up Larian's use of generative AI: 'You’ll get the opportunity to ask us any questions you have about Divinity and our dev process di…

Vincke kicked off an uproar earlier this week when he said that Larian makes use of generative AI "to explore ideas." ...

The Last of Us director won't use Gen AI even if it produces something "compelling" as "I don’t think prompting is art"

"It’s a snake eating its own tail. It can’t grow and think for itself, it just consumes" ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Microsoft Quietly Kills IntelliCode as AI Strategy Shifts to Subscription Copilot

Microsoft has begun decommissioning IntelliCode in VS Code, ending free local AI-assisted completions and shifting its ...

BG3 studio Larian says it's using genAI for Divinity, but not 'looking at trimming down teams to replace them'

We are neither releasing a game with any AI components, nor are we looking at trimming down teams to replace them with AI' ...
IEEE

Agent Decision-Making Through Human Visual Attention Prediction and Deep Reinforcement Learning in a Competitive Wargame: An Experimental Study

Abstract: In competitive wargames, human players leverage visual attention mechanisms to rapidly identify mission-critical information and make real-time decisions. However, conventional deep ...
USA Today

How did 5-loss Duke football make ACC title game? How Blue Devils made it

Duke football will play for the ACC championship — and, potentially, a College Football Playoff berth — after all. The Blue Devils, who have five losses on the season, were sent to the ACC ...
PCGamesN

A limited-time Escape From Tarkov code lets you add its controversial director to your game

Escape From Tarkov game director Nikita Buyanov has always been a divisive presence, unafraid to speak his mind and ready to give much as he gets from the extraction shooter's hardcore community. He's ...
IEEE

Visual Analytics of Ball Handlers’ Decisions in Basketball Games

Abstract: In basketball, decision-making is one of the core skills for players. For example, when a player is holding the ball, the success of the team’s offense is primarily determined by her/his ...
IGN

"Apparently our timeframe still allows us to fit a few more in."

Team Cherry has revealed it’s thinking about making a brand new game rather than a Hollow Knight 3 — but admitted that their only time concern is “death.” It sounds like Team Cherry has yet to decide ...
Variety

Oscars Visual Effects Top 20 Finalists: ‘Avatar,’ ‘Frankenstein,’ ‘Predator,’ ‘Sinners,’ ‘Wicked’ and More Make the Cut (EXCLUSIVE)

The Oscar race for visual effects is down to 20. With multiple sources confirming to Variety, the list of finalists includes a mix of anticipated blockbusters and franchise entries, with major studios ...
PC Gamer

Galaxy Princess Zorana is like if you made BG3 passive checks into a whole game, a great tale of political intrigue, and will give you like 4,000 ways to die embarrassingly

The reign of Galaxy Princess Zorana was unhappy and unproductive. Fortunately, it was also short—ended in its infancy when Her Imperial Highness took a javelin straight through the skull in some kind ...
Cinema Blend

Ke Huy Quan Is Playing A Snake In Zootopia 2, And I Had To Ask Him About The Funny Irony In The Indiana Jones Connection

Ke Huy Quan is in the midst of a powerful career renaissance. Winning the Best Supporting Oscar for his remarkable turn in Everything Everywhere All At Once has opened the door to some great ...