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The add-on is also bundled with the Mission Builder, a level and robot editor that can also convert the original Descent ' s levels for this game. [ 60 ] [ 61 ] The PlayStation version of Descent II , known as Descent Maximum , was launched on May 15, 1997 in North America and in mid-1997 in Europe.
Battle Isle 3 was very similar to Battle Isle 2, with improved graphics, more units and a new storyline. Battle Isle: The Andosian War was entirely set in the 3-D environment and combined elements of real-time and turn-based strategies. The AI is relatively weak, relying on mass frontal assaults. After a player survives the first few turns and ...
Robot HRP-2 built by SCHAFT Inc of Japan, a subsidiary of Google, defeats 15 teams to win DARPA’s Robotics Challenge Trials. HRP-2 scored 27 out of 32 points in eight tasks needed in disaster response. Tasks are drive a vehicle, walk over debris, climb a ladder, remove debris, walk through doors, cut through a wall, close valves and connect a ...
Generative AI leads to revolutionary models, creating a proliferation of foundation models both proprietary and open source, notably enabling products such as ChatGPT (text-based) and Stable Diffusion (image based). Machine learning and AI enter the wider public consciousness.
The 1997 tournament awarded a $700,000 first prize to the Deep Blue team and a $400,000 second prize to Kasparov. Carnegie Mellon University awarded an additional $100,000 to the Deep Blue team, a prize created by computer science professor Edward Fredkin in 1980 for the first computer program to beat a reigning world chess champion.
[2] The Electric Playground gave the same PC version universal acclaim, over a month before it was released Stateside. [11] The PC version sold 100,000 units by November 1997. At the time, John Moore of Mindscape explained that the company "expect[s] to sell more than 200,000 Creatures by the end of the year."
On this card was the purported last message from Lynn Minmay aboard the SDF-2 Megaroad-01 colonization ship before it disappeared, according to the official Macross continuity. The new audio dialogue was recorded for the video game by singer/songwriter Mari Iijima , who played Minmay in both the Macross animated TV series and the movie adaptation.
The sequel Constructor Plus was released on May 27, 2019, and features planets as playable maps alongside missions. Mob Rule (known as Constructor: Street Wars or Street Wars: Constructor Underworld in some regions) was released in 1999, but failed to achieve the same success of the first game [citation needed].