E3 is canceled this year due to both the pandemic's effects on development schedules and the success of events elsewhere in the year, like The Game Awards. As such, expectations are higher than ever for Summer Game Fest (SGF). It's now the biggest mid-year opportunity for developers to reveal new games and hype up their upcoming releases. At the same time, you might not see absolutely everyone. Don't worry if it's all a bit overwhelming -- we'll let you know how to watch, and what you'll likely see when Geoff Keighley and partner studios take to the stage.

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Much of the country is reopening as concerns about the coronavirus pandemic lessen, but video game makers have a message: If you want to stay inside, we can keep you entertained. Publishers and developers big and small unveiled video games in the pipeline for the rest of 2021 and 2022 during the Electronic Entertainment Expo, which ran Saturday to Tuesday (June 12-15). Even before that, during the Summer Games Fest kickoff on June 9 we learned that "Elden Ring," the much-awaited collaboration between Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin and From Software, makers of games such as "Dark Souls" and "Bloodborne," had a release date of Jan. Microsoft showed off Xbox games including "Psychonauts 2," coming out in August, "Forza Horizon 5" (November), "Halo Infinite," scheduled for later this year, and games such as "Redfall" and "Starfield," from Bethesda Softworks' studios coming in 2022. And the software giant stressed the advantage of its Xbox Game Pass, emphasizing the slew of games that will be available on the subscription service. 'Madden NFL 22':Tom Brady, Patrick Mahomes on video game cover, but inside are new realistic tweaks Nintendo showcased "Mario Golf: Super Rush," coming to Nintendo Switch on Friday, and revealed a new Metroid game called "Metroid Dread," out in October. There was also an update on the sequel to "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild," scheduled for 2022.

The upcoming release on BigML keeps pushing the envelope for more people to gain access to and make a bigger impact with Machine Learning. This release features a brand new resource providing a novel way to combine models: BigML Fusions. In this post, we'll do a quick introduction to Fusions before we move on to the remainder of our series of 6 blog posts (including this one) to give you a detailed perspective of what's behind this new capability. Today's post explains the basic concepts that will be followed by an example use case. This will be followed by three more articles focused on how to use Fusions through the BigML Dashboard, API, and WhizzML in an automated fashion.

"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" is an adage that is very applicable to the tech industry. This has been the case for Apple, who has always proven to be the trendsetter in more ways than one. But this year is slightly different. The Cupertino giant's rivals may have already copied the design of the iPhone X, but they are skipping the opportunity of bringing Face ID to their premium handsets this year. DigiTimes reported Friday that China-based smartphone vendors are not at all considering incorporating 3D sensors into their upcoming releases.