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What will win Game of the Year at this year’s Game Awards? For the first time, every single nominee has a chance at gold.

If 2024 was the Nintendo Switch’s last full year, it went out in a memorably eclectic fashion.

The year’s end is quickly approaching and that means all the best of 2024 lists are coming out. The latest is Apple’s App Store Awards, which highlight 17 apps across the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac and Vision Pro. The most notable winner for us here at Engadget? Balatro+ from LocalThunk. 

Balatro+ takes home the prize for Apple Arcade Game of the Year after already capturing so many of our hearts. The roguelike game is a fantastic mix of poker, deck-building, solitaire and more that gets addictive quick. It’s only been available on iOS through Apple Arcade or as a standalone purchase since September. It’s also available on all other platforms, including the PC and Nintendo Switch. 

If you’re the rare person out there who prefers physical games to digital ones (a stance I can sometimes relate to) then you’ll be happy to know a $16 Balatro playing card deck is currently available for preorder on Fangamer. However, it won’t ship until March 2025 so it might be worth first checking out the game digitally.

Other games awarded in Apple’s App Store awards include AFK Journey, Thank Goodness You’re Here! and Squad Busters. Apple also announced six apps that are recognized for their Cultural Impact. Winners in this category included Oko, an AI-powered navigation app for people who are blind or low-vision that offers information such as what’s happening at an intersection and turn-by-turn directions. 

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/balatro-is-apples-arcade-game-of-the-year-because-of-course-it-is-140030994.html?src=rss

Triple-A games like Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Astro Bot and Silent Hill 2 may get most of the glory at this year’s Game Awards but indie developers and gamemakers are getting a spotlight of their own before the big show. Day of the Devs: The Game Awards Edition will air a digital-only broadcast starting at 12PM ET on Wednesday, December 11 on The Game Awards’ official YouTube and Twitch channels. The stream is also embedded below.

The Game Awards edition of the Day of the Devs broadcast will feature at least 19 indie games from studios such as Annapurna, Heart Machine, Panic and Riff Raff Games. The indie game event will also feature seven world premieres of upcoming titles, title reveals and release date announcements. This also marks the second year of the Day of the Devs showcase preceding The Game Awards.

The Game Awards will follow the indie game showcase tomorrow starting at 7:30PM ET. Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and Astro Bot are tied for the most nominations at seven each. The Japanese RPG Metaphor: ReFantazio earned six nods. Silent Hill 2 and Balatro finished third with five nominations each. All the previously mentioned titles except for Silent Hill 2 are up for the Game of the Year award along with Black Myth: Wukong and Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/gaming/watch-the-day-of-the-devs-2024-game-awards-stream-here-at-12pm-et-140026531.html?src=rss

A year-and-a-half after YouTube first announced it, the platform’s AI dubbing service has arrived. The company shared the news alongside some example videos equipped with auto dubbing (which we’ll get into in a bit). The feature is available to “hundreds of thousands of” informational or educational YouTube Partner Program channels, with broader rollout planned soon.

Creators can have their English language video dubbed in French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese or Spanish. A video is any of those languages can only have an English dubbing. The process should be automatic, and creators can preview them before a video goes live. Dubbed videos are available to watch in the YouTube Studio’s “languages” section, and come with an auto-dubbed label.

The company shared three example videos with dubbing in its announcement, two dubbed in English from French and Hindi, respectively, and one in English with a range of dubbing options to try. The English translations sound very AI-generated and stilted to me, though seemingly accurate, while my colleague Steve Dent tried the French dubbing and had a similar experience. 

However, YouTube only shared examples of the tool dubbing over narration rather than  people talking. I dug for a little while to find an example of a visible conversation with dubbing but came up short — perhaps because AI dubbing may struggle with faster speech or crosstalk. YouTube preface that the “technology is new” and “won’t be perfect.”

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/ai/youtubes-ai-powered-auto-dubbing-tool-has-finally-arrived-134532964.html?src=rss