A scheme to rig college basketball games has been uncovered. Here’s what we know

A federal investigation into a sprawling betting scheme to fix basketball games stretched from the Chinese Basketball ...
TwistedSifter on MSN

Rock-paper-scissors is a game of pure chance, right? Studies have found there are actually winning strategies.

Rock-Paper-Scissors is one of the oldest and most popular games out there. It is used not just for fun, but also to make ...
AOL

This AI Can Beat You At Rock-Paper-Scissors

Rock-paper-scissors is usually a game of psychology, reverse psychology, reverse-reverse psychology, and chance. But what if a computer could understand you well enough to win every time? A team at ...
Sports Illustrated

West Virginia vs. Little Rock Preview & Game Thread

West Virginia hosts Little Rock Tuesday night inside the Hope Coliseum for the first meeting between the two programs. Tip-off is set for 7:00 p.m. and the action will stream on ESPN+. The ...
Rock Paper Shotgun

Publisher reveals and immediately cancels new Postal game after fans accuse it of using AI generation

Update 8th December: Postal: Bullet Paradise developers Goonswarm have walked back their earlier fierce denial, conceding that "promo art" for the game "appears to include or be influenced by ...
Wired

An AI Dark Horse Is Rewriting the Rules of Game Design

The video game Valorant, a fast-paced team-based shooter, has recently become a testing ground for a promising new direction in artificial intelligence research. The game’s developers at Riot Games (a ...
IGN

Where Winds Meet Players Are Using the 'Solid Snake Method' to Trick AI Chatbot NPCs Into Skipping Sidequests

Where Winds Meet players are taking a novel approach to solving riddles by… simply telling the game's AI-powered chatbot NPCs that they have solved the game's riddles. The Wuxia open-world ...
Newsweek

Psychologist Reveals 3 Traits of People Who Prefer Paper Planners

In today’s digital age, there’s little need to buy planners or calendars—almost everything is available on your phone. Still, some people won’t give up a good old-fashioned diary for keeping track of ...
The Escapist

Delayed Deep Rock Galactic Rogue Core will add a new class, but the original game is getting a new season to soften the blow

Deep Rock Galactic has been a fascinating game to watch unfold. The space-dwarves co-op shooter has been taken into the hearts of players, and for good reason – its mix of caves and creepy crawlers, ...
The New York Times

Burt Meyer, 99, Dies; Made Lite-Brite and Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots

Starting in the 1960s, he collaborated on the designs of classic toys like Mouse Trap, Toss Across and Mr. Machine. By Richard Sandomir In the early 1960s, the toy inventor Burt Meyer went to an ...
KTHV

Little Rock Amazon facility closed indefinitely due to 'building design errors'

LITTLE ROCK, Ark — An Amazon facility in Little Rock is closed indefinitely, which will impact thousands of employees. According to reports, the closure is happening due to "building design errors." ...