Forget playing Doom on a calculator. Now you can play it with a clump of brain cells--no brainstem necessary.

In a wild experiment, it turns out a few human neurons linked up to some custom silicon can actually play Doom.

Living human neurons were trained to play Doom, extending the long-running engineering benchmark into biological computing.

Researchers at Australian start-up Cortical Labs have taught human neurons grown on a chip to play the classic Doom game. In 2021, they had already used 800,000 neurons to play Pong. Now, with four ...

Researchers at a Melbourne start-up have taught their “biological computer” made from living human brain cells to play Doom.

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Graphics in games don’t improve in a steady, gentle slope. They jump. Someone ships a look that feels like it arrived from five years ahead, and then everyone else has to scramble to match it, ...

Pokemon Pokopia is all about building habitats and discovering new Pokemon. After completing the starting area called ...

Playing "Pong" during the Midwest Gaming Classic trade show at the Baird Center in Milwaukee in 2024. (Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images) The ceiling of the lobby in One Liberty Plaza in New York’s ...

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TL;DR: Unity's upgraded AI, launching in beta at GDC, enables developers to create full casual games using natural language prompts without coding. Leveraging advanced models from OpenAI and Meta, ...