Browsing: Gaming

This supplementary website accompanies the paper “Augmentations for Robust and Efficient Imitation Learning in Streamed Video Games,” published at the Conference on Games 2026. The paper studies whether spatiotemporal augmentations that mimic common streaming artifacts like pixelation, blur, scrubs, and ghosting, can improve the sample efficiency and robustness of imitation learning agents trained from limited…

This week, users in the Xbox Insider program did not receive the usual update for Xbox Series X|S consoles. The delay came as a surprise, especially since Asha Sharma said some time ago that new console updates would be released every two weeks

The Nintendo Today! app is quickly becoming the place where Nintendo shares all sorts of brand-new information, giving us looks at things we didn’t even know were coming down the pipeline. That’s what they’ve done today, once again pulling back the curtain a bit to show us something in the works

As a reminder, each week, every Friday, we’re sending out this overview of content in the Stratechery bundle; highlighted links are free for everyone. Additionally, you have complete control over what we send to you. If you don’t want to receive This Week in Stratechery emails (there is no podcast), please uncheck the box in…

” width=’0′ height=’0′ data-mode=’scan’ data-site-id=’5b11330346e0fb00017cd841′>”; var a=document.getElementById(“vmv3-frm”); a=a.contentWindow?a.contentWindow:a.contentDocument; a.document.open(); a.document.write(“

Va. (WVIR) – Virginia football doesn’t start fall ball until later this month, but some of the ‘Hoos are still in Charlottesville hitting the field, just in a different way

Today, developer h.a.n.d., Inc. and publisher BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment announced that their turn-based role-playing game title ‘DIGIMON STORY TIME STRANGER’ is out now across both Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2 consoles

Xbox has made a 2026 PlayStation game free to play for a limited time for Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S users. More specifically, the PlayStation and PS5 game is free to play on both current Xbox consoles until the end of July 12. In other words, it’s free for the weekend. The catch,…

Building a gaming PC in 2026 looks different than it did even two years ago. Nvidia’s RTX 50-series cards ship with a redesigned 12V-2×6 power connector, DDR5-6000 has become the mainstream sweet spot instead of a high-end luxury, and Windows 11 25H2 is now the default install target for new systems. If you’ve never opened…

Gaming has never exactly been an inexpensive hobby. People used to hoard quarters and unload their weekly allowance at the arcade. Home consoles gave gamers another way to spend their hard-earned cash, and it definitely feels like those have only gotten more expensive over time. A new PlayStation 5 currently costs between $650 and $900…