Pacman machines clearly have a military purpose

One of the casualties of the Russian/Ukraine war has been the destruction of more than 500 pieces of retro computer and technology history.

Army of AI managed it

Nvidia built an army of AI routines, dubbed GameGAN (short for "generative adversarial networks"), trained to build a playable Pacman game from scratch.

AI has evolved to the level of a 1980s arcade kiddie

Microsoft's artificial intelligence system has mastered the 1980s video game Ms. Pac-Man, making its steps towards global domination that much closer.

Masaya Nakamura bought joy to billions

The bloke who founded Namco and became the “the father of Pac-Man,” has died. Masaya Nakamura Nakamura was 91.