Game News in Our Discussion Forum
Tuesday August 12, 2008
Some of the game-related news items posted in our discussion forum recently include:
- Reebok is producing some Monopoly-themed sneakers.
- The Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., is hosting an alternate reality game.
- In Britain, police seized the board game War on Terror.
- Hasbro is looking to produce movies based on Monopoly, Candy Land and Ouija.
- A look at the new company Bag Games, which has published innovative travel versions of Chess, Checkers and Backgammon.
- A computer defeated a professional Go player at the U.S. Go Congress.
- Information about the new Mission: China expansion for the Xeko trading card game.
Comments
I must say, I’m not surprised about the Go player being beaten. Any game that has a fixed number of moves and a fixed board (Go, Chess, Checkers, etc.) and that does not introduce a number of entirely random elements will eventually be ‘dominated’ by computers. It’s a ’simple’ programming/processing issue when there is no uncertainty and variability in a system. It’s still not AI.