Valve has confirmed to The Verge that it will stop making its Steam Controller. Currently, the gamepads are on sale for just $5 — 90 percent off its original price — but once these controllers are gone, Valve doesn’t plan to make any more. From the report: [W]hile I can’t recommend it wholeheartedly like I did when Valve discontinued its amazing…
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Analysts, Gamers, and Blade Runner’s Artistic Director React To The Look of Tesla’s Cybertruck
Syd Mead, the artistic director on Blade Runner says Tesla’s new Cybertruck “has completely changed the vocabulary of the personal truck market design.” Or, for another perspective, “Tesla’s Cybertruck looks weird… like, really weird,” wrote Toni Sacconaghi, a senior equity research analyst at the global asset management firm AllianceBernstein. “Add a little bit of dirt, and you could even say it…
Microsoft Adds Over 50 Games To xCloud Preview, Plans Launch For 2020
Microsoft has added more than 50 new games to the preview of its Project xCloud game streaming service, including Devil May Cry 5, Tekken 7 and Madden 2020. Engadget reports: In a blog post today, Microsoft said it’ll send out a new wave of xCloud preview invites to gamers in the US, UK and South Korea. Starting next year, it also…
Should Parents Support Teens Who Want To Become Professional Gamers?
A family physician warned about a new problem this week in the New York Times: As a family doctor, I often hear from parents about how their kids push back at any attempt to limit how much time they spend playing video games. The parents will say, it’s after midnight, maybe it’s time to turn off the video game and get…
World Pinball-Playing Record Broken During Gamers’ Livestreaming-for-Charity Event
haaz (Slashdot reader #3,346) tells us that history has just been made as part of the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals annual online game-playing fundraiser, Extra Life: A man from Milwaukee, Wisconsin is trying to play pinball long enough to break the standing Guinness World Record for Longest Marathon Pinball Play of 30 hours 10 minutes. He’s using Extra Life’s gaming/DIY fundraising…
DeepMind’s StarCraft-playing AI beats 99.8 per cent of human gamers
AlphaStar, the AI built by tech firm DeepMind, has reached the top ranks of StarCraft II players, above 99.8 per cent of human gamers Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2221840-deepminds-starcraft-playing-ai-beats-99-8-per-cent-of-human-gamers/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Last Week’s Fortnite Update Helped Akamai Set a New CDN Traffic Record
The Fortnite Chapter 2 update that rolled out to gamers worldwide last week has shattered traffic records at Akamai, one of the multiple content delivery networks (CDNs) Epic Games was using to get the game update to its players. From a report: Traffic numbers during the update’s rollout peaked at 106 Tbps on Akamai’s network, surpassing the 100 Tbps threshold for…