8-2-2024

8-2-2024

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Xbox Confirms Gamescom 2024 Games and Plans – GameRant.com

Gamescom 2024 has locked in Xbox for the event later this month in Cologne, Germany. Hands-on experiences will be available for Age of Mythology: Retold, Star Wars Outlaws, and more.

 

U.S. Senate passes two kids safety bills for tech and games platforms – VentureBeat.com

The U.S. Senate has passed two bills aimed at protecting children online: the Kids Online Safety Act and the Children and Teen’s Online Privacy Protection Act. If ratified, these bills will initiate new safeguards for minors and extend age groups that fall under protection guidelines already in place.

 

Activision’s big contribution to AI is Call of Duty: Warzone data – TheVerge.com

Activision releases a “first-or-its-kind data set” of its Caldera map from Call of Duty: Warzone. Aimed to help assist training of AI, the data set available on Open USD offers “near-complete geometry” of the land of Caldera and limited data on players interaction with the terrain.

 

Minecraft Partners with Lush for Bath Bombs

Players can relax in style with their very own Lush bath bombs in Minecraft due to its new collaboration with Lush cosmetics. Alternatively, thirteen Minecraft-themed items will be available at Lush as part of Minecraft’s fifteenth anniversary celebrations.