This new training framework simulates a potential pipeline incident using AI and a gaming platform. Credit: Donna Malak/Texas A&M Engineering Researchers and industry partners are looking to create a game-like training tool using artificial intelligence (AI) to make pipeline safety training more effective. The Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center (MKO) and EnerSys Corporation are...
SINGAPORE – Mr Aloysious Tan received numerous “complaints” about a game he and his classmates had designed for their final-year project, but he could not have been happier. “Kids who played our game would ask us why it was so difficult to get around,” recalled the 20-year-old Republic Polytechnic (RP) student from the design for...
Games industry mergers and acquisitions in Q1 of 2025 rose to $6.6 billion, their highest level in over a year, driven by activity in the mobile sector. That big number was partly down to Scopely’s $3.5 billion acquisition of Niantic’s games business, including the likes of Pokémon GO. That’s according to a newsletter by gaming-focused...
Coral, coral, coral, as far as my mechanical eyes can see. I didn’t know quite what to expect when building camps to claim territories and plonking down coral spreaders in my role as leader of a faction of part-mech, part-tendrilly oddities, but it certainly wasn’t anything so drastic as half the world becoming carpeted in...
Illustration by Natalie Rhim I will not lie to you (at least in this sentence), but things are quite dire in the realm of money, and especially video games. Many people are up in arms over the recently announced tariffs, as it’s expected that many games will only become more expensive. Some people hone in...
No one wants to spend more than they have to right now…meaning that it might have been an opportune time for AMD to debut its latest Ryzen 8000 Core HX mobile processors for gaming notebooks, which lack some of the features of the Ryzen 9000 series. Essentially, the new Ryzen 8000 HX series, known as...
A 32-year-old Victorian man has been sentenced to nearly 12 years in prison and ordered to pay more than $850,000 to the Commonwealth after creating and selling an online video game that simulated child sexual abuse. The man, who was living in Highton, Geelong was arrested in August 2023 after a joint investigation by the...
Warner Bros/Legendary Pictures’ A Minecraft Movie delivered the biggest opening weekend of 2025 and the highest Friday to Sunday launch for a video game adaptation as an estimated $157m in North America dispelled the gloomy aura of Snow White, allowing the industry to exhale after a poor start to the year. The debut blew past pre-release...
Microsoft celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, and its Xbox console has been around for almost half that time. Since its release in 2001, the Xbox has consistently proven that Western, PC-style gaming sensibilities can thrive in a market historically dominated by Japanese tech giants. Beyond simply thriving, it undeniably reshaped the gaming world, from...
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