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Well, someone’s finally done it. Phys reports researchers at the University of Texas have created AI capable of passing a Turing test – fooling a human into believing they are interacting with another human. The computer scientists built a couple of Unreal Tournament 3 bots so lifelike that judges tagged both as human players 52% of the time – while actual human players usually manage about 42%. You know what that means, right? The singularity is coming. May our new machine overlords enjoy our feeble monkey efforts at fragging.

Thanks, Eurogamer.

Korea’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Television wants to ban gaming bots which gather resources in gaming, as well as the ability for players to trade and farm virtual items.

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The Taco Bell-Vita scandal reached new heights today as a hacker has claimed to have nefariously “tricked” the restaurant chain into sending him a Vita.

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Aion players could see the long-awaited gender change and plastic surgery services happening in the next couple weeks.

Also, the developers posted a nice bit of information on how you can protect your account, and what it’s doing to combat hackers and gold farmers.

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According to a post over on the Killzone 2 community site, the game will be patched to 1.21 this coming week.

The option to create unranked games will also be added due to bots being abused during ranked play — should stop people from getting banned after this.

Here’s a list:

• Increase of the standard points settings for Bodycount. Should ensure longer mode on heavily populated games.
• The option to create unranked games. Players will be made aware that a game is unranked upon joining.
• Fix to list of games displayed on search.

Guerilla  is also investigating other issues for future patches.

• Controls. Seeing about giving more options.
• More game options for clans
• Improvements to help play with friends

Downloadable content is also currently in the works but no details were mentioned.

Full patch notes and the list of possible updates are listed after the break.

Thanks, D’toid.
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