PaperGames 
yourchaoschris.github.io
A collection of 103 classic games adapted for E-Ink screens, like Kindle’s. Free and open source.
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Games
Lobster is lobster
lobsterislobster.online
In this game, the goal is to guess the translations of a term into other languages. The “hard” difficult is hard, indeed, and the “Insane” I didn’t even try.
Snail racing simulator
addy.zone
The races are long and overtaking, rare. Formula 1? No, I’m talking about the Snail racing simulator. Choose yours, cheer it, and hope for the best. (The website reports that the slug race is a “genuine sport” popular in Britain.)
Wire Loop
keithcirkel.co.uk
From the most boring television game shows to your computer or phone, in the game Wire Loop you have to take the disc from one point to another without touching the wire, as fast as you can. Includes a level editor.
DOS Zone
dos.zone
A collection of old computer games that run directly from the browser. (Get ready for some big downloads.) Saw this link in the Codecon newsletter [pt_BR].
999 Penguins
999penguins.com
Your goal in this game is to eliminate 999 penguins by combining three or more of the same color. (I managed to reach 170 penguins left.)
Nvidia announces an AI filter for games, and gamers go wild
Something funny happened in the world of video games.
Nvidia realized that its graphics chips are also good for gaming, not just AI, and announced a technology called DLSS 5 that uses their power to, in the company’s words, “infuse pixels with photoreal lighting and materials to bridge the gap between rendering and reality.” With generative AI, obviously.
The public reaction was quite negative, even on Nvidia’s official YouTube video. DLSS 5 kind of turns the look of games into AI-generated videos. More photorealistic than the original, yes, but the criticism is that the technology interferes with the art of games.
The DLSS 5-on graphics do indeed look like AI-generated videos, or those artificial filters on Instagram and TikTok, but it’s not as if the originals, without the effect, were much better. That intrigued me a bit more than DLSS 5 itself. I haven’t played video games in ages, and these PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X graphics don’t seem all that different from what I remember of video games from two or three generations ago. Given that, I think I prefer Nvidia’s AI-filtered version…?
This article from Gizmodo has some comparisons and videos.
Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, was unfazed by the widespread criticism. During a Q&A session at Nvidia GTC, the company’s AI-focused event, when asked by a reporter, Jensen began his response saying that “Well, first of all, they [critics] are completely wrong” (video).