Collaborate Disseminate
Last week the Los Angeles Times published a sympathetic portrait of Robbi Jade Lew, the woman facing unproven allegations of cheating in a high-stakes poker match.
This week the newspaper profiled the man making those accusations — Garrett Adel… Continue reading Man Alleging Poker Cheating Demands Better Security in Livestreamed Games
Last week the Los Angeles Times published a sympathetic portrait of Robbi Jade Lew, the woman facing unproven allegations of cheating in a high-stakes poker match.
This week the newspaper profiled the man making those accusations — Garrett Adel… Continue reading Man Alleging Poker Cheating Demands Better Security in Livestreamed Games
An experienced poker player lost to a relative newcomer. But then, “Somehow, the Robbi Jade Lew-Garrett Adelstein scandal diving the poker world just got weirder,” reports the New York Post:
An internal investigation conducted by Hustler Casino Live &… Continue reading Alleged Poker-Cheating Scandal Gets Weirder: Employee Stole $15,000 In Chips
“Chess engines have redefined creativity in chess,” argues the Atlantic, “leading to a situation where the game’s top players can no longer get away with simply playing the strongest chess they can, but must also engage in subterfuge, misdirection, and… Continue reading Is Professional Chess Becoming More Like Poker?
“Chess engines have redefined creativity in chess,” argues the Atlantic, “leading to a situation where the game’s top players can no longer get away with simply playing the strongest chess they can, but must also engage in subterfuge, misdirection, and… Continue reading Is Professional Chess Becoming More Like Poker?
“19-year-old chess grandmaster Hans Niemann was banned by massive online chess platform Chess.com,” reports Motherboard, “just a few days after being accused of cheating in real life against five-time World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen.”
Chess.com s… Continue reading Chess.com Bans 19-Year-Old Accused of Cheating, But No Evidence He Cheated Against Magnus Carlsen
An anonymous reader writes: When the Classic Tetris World Championship (CTWC) debuted in 2010, the kill screen was the game’s final, unbeatable boss. Players pushed to get the highest score possible before level 29, at which point the game’s pieces sta… Continue reading Teens Are Rewriting What Is Possible In the World of Competitive Tetris
An anonymous reader writes: Atari pulled the plug on the release of Marble Madness II almost exactly 31 years ago after the follow up to their hit game failed to perform well in location tests. For decades the only way to play this now sought after rar… Continue reading Marble Madness II: The Canceled Sequel To Classic Arcade Game Recovered For MAME Emulator
What did you think of Twitter Data Dash?
The Guardian describes it as “a Super Nintendo-style browser game that recaps Twitter’s private policy.”
And the Verge applauds the game — released Wednesday — for its “delightful pixel art aesthe… Continue reading Twitter Turns Its Privacy Policy Into a Videogame about a Dog
“What can scientists learn by teaching two monkeys to play Pac-Man?” asks the South China Morning Post.
“Quite a lot it seems, according to researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.”
A team of neuroscientists from the academy said they used th… Continue reading What Chinese Scientists Learned Teaching Two Monkeys to Play Pac-Man