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Star Trek: Resurgence review: Great moments, shame about the gameplay

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Star Trek: Resurgence review: Great moments, shame about the gameplay

Parts of the long-awaited Star Trek: Resurgence were excellent, but its technical issues left me wishing I was watching TV, says Jacob Aron

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Tin Can review: Fix your escape pod in this fantastic video game

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Tin Can review: Fix your escape pod in this fantastic video game

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Christopher Paolini on the 5 space operas that inspired his new novel

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Christopher Paolini on the 5 space operas that inspired his new novel

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These robots use magnets to cling to the ceiling

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Ceiling robots can reconfigure room lights and curtains

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Terra Nil

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Terra Nil review: City builder lets you leave the world a better place

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Figure 4: At the beginning of the simulation, one agent is initialized with an intent to organize a Valentine?s Day party. Despite many possible points of failure in the ensuring chain of events?agents might not act on that intent, might not remember to tell others, might not remember to show up?the Valentine?s Day party does in fact occur, with a number of agents gathering and interacting.

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ChatGPT agents are better at simulated role-play than humans

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The Forest Cathedral Whitethorn Games

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The Forest Cathedral review: Can Silent Spring work as a game?

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Why fears around children playing video games are counterproductive

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Why fears around children playing video games are counterproductive

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Screenshot from the Alexa Arena computer game

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Amazon wants you to help train robots by playing a video game

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Barack_Obama_0_Zero-Shot Text-to-Parameter Translation for Game Character Auto-Creation

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Character creator AI puts Barack Obama – or anyone – in a video game

An artificial intelligence in the game Justice Online will let players customise characters to look like anything they want, including celebrities or dog people, just by typing in instructions – and the tech could make it to other games too

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AI masters video game 6000 times faster by reading the instructions

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Video games have been getting perspective wrong, but now there's a fix

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Marvel's Midnight Suns review: Meet your heroes in new strategy game

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AI is listening in on gamer chat for toxic and abusive language

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