Besiege: The Splintered Sea Review: Small Ship for Expansive Seafaring

I can’t compare my experience of writing a review for The Splintered Sea, the first paid expansion for the sneaky physics puzzler Besiege, to that of a sailor writing a diary facing deadly storms on the horizon. Still, if we take for granted the idea that the review is only really valuable as an insight into the player’s experience: I didn’t feel particularly good this week. Consider this: Splintered Sea is more Besiege thoughtfully applied to his already extensive toolkit. More importantly, it’s currently bringing me deep and deeply needed moments of untainted, childlike, vaguely orcish joy.

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Naughty Dog boss Neil Druckmann says AI will ‘revolutionize the way content is created’ – IGN

Naughty Dog boss Neil Druckmann said AI would "revolutionize" the video game development process, but warned the controversial technology had "ethical issues".Druckmann, studio head and head of creative on The…

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The artificial intelligence headset allows the wearer to listen to one person in a crowd by just looking at them once

A team at the University of Washington has developed an artificial intelligence system that allows a user wearing a headset to watch a person speak for three to five seconds…

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