Collaborate Disseminate
“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
“Pong on a Commodore 64 is one thing… but Pong in a single C64 sprite? That’s uncharted territory,” writes Slashdot reader segaboy81.
Neowin reports:
The Commodore 64 is an iconic machine. For many of us boomers, it was our introduction to programm… Continue reading Man Creates Entire Game of Pong Inside a Single Commodore 64 Sprite
IEEE Spectrum has republished an article from nearly 40 years ago remembering one of the long-forgotten secrets of the classic video game Space Invaders.
It’s about that iconic descending musical notes accompanying the onslaught of the aliens…
The… Continue reading Secrets of ‘Space Invaders’ — and One Very Tiny Homegrown Cabinet
Three research scientists at DeepMind Technologies teamed up with former world chess champion Vladimir Kramnik to “explore what variations of chess would look like at superhuman level,” according to their new article in Communications of the ACM. Their… Continue reading Can AI Help Us Reimagine Chess?
There may still be cabinets in rows with flashing lights and electronic sounds — but Polygon reports a historic change in the world of videogame arcades:
Even though arcades all over the world have been in a steady decline over the past 20 years… Continue reading After 56 years, SEGA Officially Sells Off All Its Arcades
Each player gets 15 minutes for all moves (plus a 10-second-per-move increment) at the World Rapid Chess Championship.
But players only get three minutes for all moves (plus a 2-second-per-move increment) in the World Blitz Chess Championship.
So w… Continue reading 17-Year-Old Beats Magnus Carlsen in World Rapid Chess Championship