Former Infinity Ward dev says Activision told staff to ‘take the money and get over it’ after ‘cold-blooded’ canning of studio heads West and Zampella

In 2009, Infinity Ward heads Jason West and Vince Zampella were abruptly fired by the company’s owner Activision. West and Zampella had directed the original Call of Duty, and brought the series to superstardom through Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Their sacking just before the release of Modern Warfare 2 shocked the industry, and…

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Machine learning means we can read a 2,000-year-old carbonized scroll buried by Mount Vesuvius and turns out it’s all about the pleasures of stuffing your face

You hear that? That’s the sound of people everywhere saying ‘they can do that?’ after reading how researchers used imaging, computer vision, and machine learning to read ancient Roman text within what most would think amounts to little more than a stick of charcoal by looking at it. The 2000-year-old scroll is one of more…

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Minecraft Comes To Dreamcast Via ClassiCube

Block-busting news! Minecraft is one pretty much every modern platform, so why shouldn’t the Dreamcast get in on the action? That’s (sort of) what has happened, as ClassiCube – a fan-made sandbox game based on Minecraft’s Creative Mode – has just been ported to Sega’s 128-bit console. Read the full article on timeextension.com Block-busting news!…

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