You Can Play These Retro Games in Your Browser
When I was a kid way back in the ‘80s, vintage video games were new. Stuff like Super Mario Bros., Tetris on the Game Boy, and Final Fantasy III had pixel art and chiptunes, but they weren’t yet retro games; we just called them video games. What we didn’t have was access to the internet,…
Dozens of popular Minecraft mods found infected with Fracturiser malware
Getty Images A platform that provides plugin software for the wildly popular Minecraft game is advising users to immediately stop downloading or updating mods after discovering malware has been injected into dozens of offerings it makes available online. The mod-developer accounts were hosted by CurseForge, a platform that hosts accounts and forums related to add-on…
They plugged GPT-4 into Minecraft—and unearthed new potential for AI
Microsoft The technology that underpins ChatGPT has the potential to do much more than just talk. Linxi “Jim” Fan, an AI researcher at the chipmaker Nvidia, worked with some colleagues to devise a way to set the powerful language model GPT-4—the “brains” behind ChatGPT and a growing number of other apps and services—loose inside the…
How to Test Minecraft’s New Cherry Blossoms Before Everyone Else
Image: MicrosoftPlenty of updates have come and gone in Minecraft’s nearly 15-year history, but players have never had cherry blossoms. Minecraft is about to get pink, and you can try it right now.As part of the upcoming Minecraft 1.20 update, Mojang has added a new cherry blossom biome to the world. This biome spawns—you guessed…
15 Video Games to Play Mindlessly While You Binge a Podcast
Tetris Effect: Connected - Launch Trailer - Nintendo SwitchOur final pick for the best games to play while listening to a podcast is arguably also the best video game ever made: Tetris. Chances are you’ve played Tetris in some form—whether that’s the mind-bending Tetris Effect on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation, or the classic GameBoy version…
Nvidia AI plays Minecraft, wins machine-learning conference award
Enlarge / MineDojo's AI can perform complex tasks in Minecraft.Nvidia A paper describing MineDojo, Nvidia's generalist AI agent that can perform actions from written prompts in Minecraft, won an Outstanding Datasets and Benchmarks Paper Award at the 2022 NeurIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems) conference, Nvidia revealed on Monday. To train the MineDojo framework to play…
Nvidia AI plays Minecraft, wins machine learning conference award
Enlarge / MineDojo's AI can perform complex tasks in Minecraft.Nvidia A paper describing MineDojo, Nvidia's generalist AI agent that can perform actions from written prompts in Minecraft, won an Outstanding Datasets and Benchmarks Paper Award at the 2022 NeurIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems) conference, Nvidia revealed on Monday. To train the MineDojo framework to play…
Nvidia AI plays Minecraft, wins AI conference award
Enlarge / MineDojo's AI can perform complex tasks in Minecraft.Nvidia A paper describing MineDojo, Nvidia's generalist AI agent that can perform actions from written prompts in Minecraft, won an Outstanding Datasets and Benchmarks Paper Award at the 2022 NeurIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems) conference, Nvidia revealed on Monday. To train the MineDojo framework to play…
11 Educational Video Games That Are Actually Fun
Kerbal Space Program Launch TrailerIf you have a kid who’s even a little interested in space or rockets, Kerbal Space Program is the game for you. It puts you in command of a space program and lets you build rockets to orbit the planet, reach the moon, and explore other worlds—if you can work out…
Someone Built a 4D Minecraft Clone
Video games usually come in one of two dimensions: You have your 2D side scrollers, or, more commonly, your typical 3D adventures. Rarely do you see a game that pushes beyond these dimensions, since, you know, we live in the third dimension. Why, then, does a Minecraft clone exist in 4D?At first glance, 4D Miner…
