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SwitchArcade Round-Up: ‘Murder by Numbers’, ‘ibb & obb’, ‘Wunderling’, and Today’s Other New Releases, the Latest Sales Including ‘Rocket League’ and More

Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for March 5th, 2020. It is a Thursday, and that means we have a whole bunch of new games to check out today. Not so many as last week, mind you, but plenty of good ones nonetheless. And it’s a good thing we have those games to check out, because other than that there really isn’t a whole lot to discuss beyond our usual list of sales. Let’s get right to the main course! New Releases Murder by Numbers ($14.99) SwitchArcade

How Artificial Intelligence is changing the gaming industry

Artificial intelligence (AI) in gaming isn’t a recent innovation. As early as 1949, mathematician and cryptographer Claude Shannon pondered a one-player chess game, in which humans would compete against a computer.Indeed, gaming has been a key engine of AI, and a proving ground for the simulations, constructed environments and tests of realism that are the foundation of virtual experiences.AI for the gaming experienceIn 1989’s Sim City, for example, players controlled complex simulations, and rudimentary gaming AI was deployed to simulate something close to realism – i.e. deeply human characteristics like unpredictability.