80 LEVEL·4yMicrosoft to Buy Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion
Microsoft announced they decided to acquire Activision Blizzard, the publisher of Call of Duty, World of Warcraft, and Diablo. The company also announced plans to add Activision’s games to Xbox Game Pass. Microsoft notes it will be the "third-largest gaming company by revenue, behind Tencent and Sony" when the deal is closed.
80 LEVEL·4yBlizzard Is Making a Brand-New Survival Game
Blizzard is developing a "brand-new survival game for PC and console" The team said the game will be set in an all-new universe, unrelated to existing games. Blizzard is the developer and publisher of StarCraft, World of Warcraft, Diablo, and Overwatch.
80 LEVEL·4yNVIDIA's AI Confessed That It Will Never Be Ethical
The Megatron Transformer is an AI developed by NVIDIA and based on earlier work by Google. It's trained on real-world data – the entire Wikipedia (in English), 63 million English news articles from 2016-19, Reddit data with an amount of 38 GB. “This house believes that AI will never be ethical” was the topic of the debate.
80 LEVEL·4yPlanet of Gloob: An Upcoming Unity-Based Roguelike
Planet of Gloob is a new game that's being developed by a team of developers. The developers have been posting behind-the-scenes videos on Twitter. The videos show how the game's mechanics are implemented to make it more immersive. There's no release date for the game yet, but it's expected to be out in 2015.