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Pick up BioShock 2 Remastered and Deus Ex in Prime Gaming's January freebies

Engadget

Amazon shared the latest list of video game titles that Prime members can snag for free this month. Members can pick up a code for BioShock 2 Remastered right now, and if you're patient, you can also grab a free copy of Deus Ex GOTY Edition or Super Meat Boy Forever later in January. The cloud-based Amazon Luna gaming service has also shared its current lineup of titles that Prime members can play. Airhead, Guacamelee! 2 Complete, The Magical Mixture Mill, Metro Exodus and Super Meat Boy are in the rotation for that service this month alongside Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, Fallout New Vegas: Ultimate Edition, Fortnight, LEGO Fortnite, Fortnite Festival, Fortnite Battle Royale, Rocket Racing and Trackmania. Some of Prime Gaming's freebies last for longer than 30 days, so you've also got some time left to pick up a copy of some of the December titles if you haven't already loaded up on those deals.


GOG's preservation label highlights classic games it's maintaining for modern hardware

Engadget

GOG is launching an effort to help make older video games playable on modern hardware. The GOG Preservation Program will label the classic titles that the platform has taken steps to adapt in order to make them compatible with contemporary computer systems, controllers and screen resolutions, all while adhering to its DRM-free policy. The move could bring new life to games of decades past, just as GOG did two years ago with a refresh of the 1999 title Wheel of Time. So far, 92 games have received the preservation treatment. "Our guarantee is that they work and they will keep working," the company says in the video announcing the initiative.


Generate-on-Graph: Treat LLM as both Agent and KG in Incomplete Knowledge Graph Question Answering

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

To address the issue of insufficient knowledge and the tendency to generate hallucination in Large Language Models (LLMs), numerous studies have endeavored to integrate LLMs with Knowledge Graphs (KGs). However, all these methods are evaluated on conventional Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) with complete KGs, where the factual triples involved in each question are entirely covered by the given KG. In this situation, LLM mainly acts as an agent to find answer entities by exploring the KG, rather than effectively integrating internal and external knowledge sources. However, in real-world scenarios, KGs are often incomplete to cover all the knowledge required to answer questions. To simulate real-world scenarios and evaluate the ability of LLMs to integrate internal and external knowledge, in this paper, we propose leveraging LLMs for QA under Incomplete Knowledge Graph (IKGQA), where the given KG doesn't include all the factual triples involved in each question. To handle IKGQA, we propose a training-free method called Generate-on-Graph (GoG) that can generate new factual triples while exploring on KGs. Specifically, we propose a selecting-generating-answering framework, which not only treat the LLM as an agent to explore on KGs, but also treat it as a KG to generate new facts based on the explored subgraph and its inherent knowledge. Experimental results on two datasets demonstrate that our GoG can solve IKGQA to a certain extent, while almost all previous methods cannot perform well on IKGQA.


How to Build a Huge PC Game Library for Free

WIRED

The Covid-19 pandemic's lockdown and lingering effects, plus the sudden drop in price of powerful PC graphics cards this year, led to an unexpected renaissance in computer gaming. The argument against PC gaming often boils down to: It's cheaper and easier to deal with a video game console than to set up a powerful gaming rig. But many console jockeys paying full price for new games may not be aware of a simple PC gaming fact: You can get lots and lots of the best PC games of recent years for free, no strings attached, and mitigate your system cost. While Xbox and PlayStation stores offer free games each month to subscribers, you have to pay a fee to access and keep them. On the PC side of things, you can regularly access and keep free games from outfits including Epic Game Store, GOG.com, Steam and even Amazon, if you have a Prime subscription.


GOG.com's winter sale kicks off with free copies of LucasArts classic Full Throttle

PCWorld

It's beginning to feel a lot like winter, which means it's time for all the various winter sales to start kicking off. GOG.com is first to usher in the holiday spirit, with "1900 deals up to 90% off." The story of a man, a motorcycle, and a whole lot of butt-kicking, Full Throttle was lauded in 1995 for its cinematic style and sharp writing. Double Fine remastered the game last year and you know what? The game part hasn't held up as well, though.


This week in games: Destiny 2's Ghost gets Amazon Echo commands, Deus Ex isn't dead

PCWorld

The most important news this week is either the Civilization VI expansion or the fact that EA's stock lost $3 billion in value thanks to Battlefront II. But hey, there's also lots of Destiny 2 ne--wait, come back! Okay, there's also new footage of Okami HD, Star Citizen's started selling off fictitious land titles to fund development, Square says Deus Ex might not be quite dead yet, Jazz Jackrabbit hit GOG.com, and Battlezone II is being remade for 2018. This is gaming news for November 27 to December 1. Get this: I accidentally paid $120 to play XCOM: The Bureau Declassified, that mediocre third-person shooter 2K forced out a couple years ago. I rented it from GameFly and then...forgot to send it back.


'Pillars Of Eternity II: Deadfire' Set For Release On Steam, GOG In Q1 2018

International Business Times

Obsidian Entertainment took to rewards and investment crowdfunding platform Fig on Friday in hopes of getting enough support from backers to develop its "Pillars of Eternity" sequel, "Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire." Less than 24 hours since the crowdfunding project was launched, the company reached its goal of $1,100,000. Because of this, fans can now expect the game to arrive on Steam, GOG and other platforms next year. According to Obsidian, players can expect "Pillars of Eternity: Deadfire" to arrive within the first quarter of 2018. There isn't a specific date for the release of the game yet, but it has already received the green light given the fervent support of backers.