Following Microsoft’s recent acquisition of Fallout developer Bethesda Game Studios, many fans wondered if Obsidian—another Microsoft acquisition—could make a sequel to fan-favorite game Fallout: New Vegas. However, one of the best aspects of New Vegas is its strong emphasis in player choice and multiple endings, and declaring one ending canon would put a bit of […]
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What We Want To See From Microsoft & Bethesda's Partnership
Microsoft dropped a pretty penny to acquire Zenimax Media and its various subsidiary studios, including Bethesda, the developer and publisher behind industry-defining franchises like The Elder Scrolls and Fallout. There are plenty of questions circulating about this massive business move, but it’s safe to speculate that the next generation of Xbox gaming will include a […]
What We Want To See From Microsoft & Bethesda's Partnership
Microsoft dropped a pretty penny to acquire Zenimax Media and its various subsidiary studios, including Bethesda, the developer and publisher behind industry-defining franchises like The Elder Scrolls and Fallout. There are plenty of questions circulating about this massive business move, but it’s safe to speculate that the next generation of Xbox gaming will include a […]
It's Confusing, But Microsoft's New Console Generation Is Just Called "Xbox"
Microsoft confirmed the long-rumored Xbox Lockhart console recently, and as expected, it’s called Xbox Series S. It plays the same games as Xbox Series X, similar to how Xbox One S and Xbox One X have the same library. But because we’ve spent nearly a year referring to Microsoft’s next generation as “Xbox Series X,” […]
Amazon’s AI uses a microphone array to localize multiple speakers in a room
In a technical paper scheduled to be presented next month at the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), a group of Amazon researchers propose an AI approach to multiple-source localization, or the problem of estimating a sound’s location using microphone audio. They say that in experiments involving real and simulated data (the […]