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by Synced 2019-09-10 2

Chinese Gaming Giant NetEase Leverages AI to Create 3D Game Characters from Selfies

A team of researchers from the Chinese gaming giant NetEase have developed a method to automatically create players’ in-game characters from a standard portrait photo.

by Synced 2019-08-06 0

AI China Industry

Tencent AI Trounces Pro Team in China’s #1 Mobile Game

China’s largest game-maker Tencent recently took a huge leap when its homegrown AI system Wukong AI (绝悟) trounced a human pro team in China’s most popular mobile game Honor of Kings (王者荣耀), aka Arena of Valor.

by Synced 2019-07-10 1

AI Research

StarCraft II Players Get the Chance to Play Against DeepMind’s AlphaStar!

Blizzard Entertainment, the American video game developer and publisher behind the StarCraft series, announced that AlphaStar will join the competitive ladder in Europe on the online gaming platform Battle.net, where it will play a limited number of games against human players.