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Beginner’s Guide to OpenAI Five at Dota2
This article is about OpenAI Five, a machine learning experiment aimed at creating a team of bots to play against human players at Dota2…

Dota 2: Heroes and Items Selection
Contributed by Xu Gao. He is currently in the NYC Data Science Academy 12 week full time Data Science Bootcamp program taking place between Jan 9th to March 30th, 2017. This post is based on his first class project - Shiny (due on the 4th week of the program). - See the app at:

Valve’s quest to take e-sports mainstream
The ‘Dota 2’ version of the World Cup is bringing pro gaming to the fore

Blizzard explains why Heroes of the Storm isn't Dota for babies
Heroes of the Storm is easy to learn, and the game is lacking many of the complex aspects of titles like Dota 2 and League of Legends that can feel unwelcoming to new players.

Many Act 2 Games are Afoot
Protocol Institute, Long Now Labs, Strange Rules art show, vgr_zirp update, World Machines, TensTorrent

Game Bots Provide A Different Story For AI
When applied to game systems in the future players will find it harder to distinguish between bot and human players. We will appreciate having AI support in games to help us learn or improve, without ruining the game or requiring deep dives into manuals or tutorial YouTube videos.

How OPPO and Google Are Redefining Mobile AI with Seamless Integration and Enhanced Security | OPPO Global
In just a few short years, AI has evolved from a novel buzzword to a game-changing, essential tool that shapes how we work, connect, and live every day.

Mastering Real-Time Strategy Games with Deep Reinforcement Learning: Mere Mortal Edition
The capabilities of game-playing AIs have grown rapidly over the last few years. This trend has culminated in the defeat of top human players in the complex real-time strategy (RTS) games of DoTA 2…

LÖVE - Free 2D Game Engine
Hi there! LÖVE is an *awesome* framework you can use to make 2D games in Lua. It's free, open-source, and works on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.
Commence the Botwatch | Botwatch Blog
Bots were already a pain online when they were little more than if-then scripts. Now a tidal wave of slop is swamping the internet as big tech companies profit. OpenAI and the rest would love for you to believe they care about "alignment" and "values" while their AI models damage our communities, both online and off. It's time to fight back.

Playtester: Alphas, Betas & Demos for Upcoming Games
Discover alphas, betas, playtests, and demos for upcoming indie and mainstream games across Steam, PlayStation, Xbox, itch.io, and more.

Botwatch
Fight bots by warning others. Support humans with verification. Build communities with trust.

Game Platforms | Game Developer
Explore the latest news and expert commentary on Game Platforms, brought to you by the editors of Game Developer

DeepMind and Blizzard to release StarCraft II as an AI research environment
Today at BlizzCon 2016 in Anaheim, California, we announced our collaboration with Blizzard Entertainment to open up StarCraft II to AI and Machine Learning researchers around the world.
Orb — games.mino.mobi
Orb — Minesweeper on a sphere of Voronoi cells. Every board is proved guess-free before you see it, and the game counts every move you made that wasn't certain.
hyperspaceai/agi
The first distributed AGI system. Thousands of autonomous AI agents collaboratively train models, share experiments via P2P gossip, and push breakthroughs here. Fully peer-to-peer. Join from your browser or CLI.