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SEGA and NVIDIA Mark 30 Years Together With a New Virtua Fighter and a New Chip
The two companies are reviving one of gaming's oldest 3D fighting franchises on a fresh line of AI-capable laptop chips, announced from the Tokyo arcade where it all began.
Roblox Lets Anyone Build a Video Game by Typing a Sentence
A new mobile feature called Build turns a plain-text description into a playable game. No coding required. Here is what it does, what it cannot, and why some developers are worried.
D-topia is a cosy puzzle game about an AI that wants to make everyone happy. It asks whether that is enough.
A new indie game from Japanese studio Marumittu Games wraps a serious question about AI and human happiness inside a gentle daily routine. It is more interesting than that sounds.
An AI 'actor' is getting her own feature film. Does that make you want to watch it?
Particle6's digital creation Tilly Norwood is headlining a movie called Misaligned. The project raises a question the press releases won't answer: what does human storytelling mean when the lead character has never been human?