A video game has yet to win an Academy Award, but that doesn't mean the influence of the interactive medium wasn't felt at this year's Oscars. Consider that two of the awards season's most talked-about films — Oscar's big winner "Parasite" and the World War I quest film "1917" — show the ascendancy of interactive entertainment.
While "1917" has occasionally been derided as a video game, largely due to its free-flowing, often third-person camera, the rise of games as a cultural force is also having a more subtle narrative impact as generations weaned on interactive entertainment begin to more regularly mold our content, either by creating it or by choosing what to consume.
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How AI Could Help Video Gamers Create the Games They Want | Time
The history of AI and that of gaming are inexorably intertwined. Early AI researchers saw games like chess as markers of intelligence, and thus perfect testing grounds for their work. “One of the very earliest things that people tried to do with this sort of burgeoning field was get it to play chess and get to play chess well, and, obviously, that eventually happened with Deep Blue ,” says Matthew Guzdial, an AI researcher and assistant professor at the University of Alberta.
Microsoft lured stars to its video-game-streaming service Mixer, but audience is barely growing |
Despite enlisting stars such as Ninja, Shroud and KingGothalion over the past year, Microsoft’s Mixer video-game-streaming service is having trouble increasing its audience.
The number of hours watched — a key benchmark for streaming platforms — was up less than 2% in January from a year earlier, according to a report Wednesday from StreamElements and Arsenal.gg. That compares with substantial gains on competing services.
The industry is still dominated by Amazon’s Twitch, but Mixer and other platforms have been looking to get a bigger foothold. When Mixer lured Ninja and other top gamers away from Twitch, it was a bet that the stars could help bring their fans with them.
Disney wants developers to "reimagine" its IP for video games | GamesIndustry.biz
Disney is seeking more partnerships with games developers and publishers following the success of Marvel's Spider-Man and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order.
Speaking at the 2020 DICE Summit, the company's senior VP for games and interactive experiences Sean Shoptaw reiterated that Disney's focus when it comes to the games industry is in licensing out its IP.
According to The Hollywood Reporter , Shoptaw told developers his role is to "empower you to do really unique things with our [catalogue]," adding: "We want to tap into the power of creatives across the industry."
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The team behind Apple’s ‘Mythic Quest’ says video games aren’t the punch
When Ubisoft first approached “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” stars Rob McElhenney and Charlie Day about creating a new show set in the video game industry, McElhenney said they weren’t interested — at least not initially.
“Anything that we had ever seen in the past, from a movie or television show perspective, the industry was always presented in such a negative light,” he told me. “It was the butt of the joke. The characters themselves were derided, and it was very specific to geek culture…. We just had no interest in that.”
The best video game movies ever - Washington Post
In 1993, The Washington Post unwittingly became tied to video game movie history. Emblazoned on the cover of the first video game movie's poster is a review, attributed to The Washington Post: " IT'S A BLAST! "
That movie was "Super Mario Bros." Laughed out of the box office at the time, the film still enchanted former Post staff writer Hal Hinson, who wrote those infamous words without irony in what would become a rare commodity: a positive review for a film based on a video game.
The Best Video Games to Play When You're Lonely
The first and most obvious choice of game to try if you're feeling a bit lonely is a massively multiplayer title. With thousands of people playing in vast, virtual worlds across hundreds of servers, you're bound to find three things: an activity you enjoy doing, people who also enjoy doing that activity, and a way for all of you to coordinate doing that activity together in the future.
If MMOs aren't your bag—and that's fair, because they can be complex and soul-sucking—consider a game that simply has a strong (but not overwhelming) multiplayer component. Better still if the game already forces you to work together with other people, or makes it painfully easy to do so.
Nintendo Publicly Blacklists Video Game Site Over 'Pokémon Sword And Shield' Leaks
Leaks happen frequently in the video game industry, and they have varying levels of severity. There's a difference between say, datamining a new Fortnite skin a couple hours before release, and breaking a review embargo to reveal secret Pokémon ahead of the debut of Sword and Shield .
The latter is exactly what happened last year when images of new, unannounced Pokémon started to leak out online. Today, that story has resurfaced as Nintendo has identified the culprit behind the leaks and publicly blacklisted them.
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