In Real Life
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This Might Actually Be The Most Weirdly Boring Star Trek ‘Action’ Figure Ever Made
9Star Trek has never been the most, ugh, toyetic of franchises. Cool ships, weird aliens, big teams of characters to collect, sure, but it’s a franchise about exploration and science more than it really is about action. That hasn’t stopped Star Trek toy lines though, leading to some very weird merch… such as this exciting…
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Australian Government’s Loot Box Inquiry Is Now Accepting Public Submissions
After conflicting opinions at the state level, loots boxes are now firmly in the federal government’s cross hairs, with an inquiry into the practise underway. We’ll have to wait until September for the results, but until the end of this month, we’re free to submit our thoughts.
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Playable Tech Demo Shows Why Future Games Should Be Animated Using Neural Networks
Visual fidelity in games has improved massively in the last few years, to the point where ray-tracing is now being used to complement rasterisation in real time. Animation, however, has lagged behind, but a combo of motion capture and neural networks could change that.
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This Week In The Business: Down On The Sickness
“Gaming disorder is characterised by a pattern of persistent or recurrent gaming behaviour, which may be online or offline, manifested by: 1) impaired control over gaming (e.g., onset, frequency, intensity, duration, termination, context); 2) increasing priority given to gaming to the extent that gaming takes precedence over other life interests and daily activities; and 3)…