Indie publishers QubicGames, Klabater and All In! Games have teamed up to offer a special Black Friday sale on the Nintendo Switch eShop.

Several games will be discounted over the next couple of weeks, with the sale starting today and ending on 30th November. You can find all of the discounts on a new webpage dedicated to the sale here, but we’ve got a list of the highlights for you below:

· DEX – $19.99 to $7.99 USD (60% off)

· Metamorphosis – $24.99 to $9.99 (60% off)

· Red Wings Aces of the Sky – $19.99 to $4.99 (75% off)

· We. The Revolution – $19.99 to $4.99 (75% off)

· Help Will Come Tomorrow – $19.99 to $3.99 (80% off)

· Big Pharma – $29.99 to $5.89 (80% off)

· Tharsis – $11.99 to $4.79 (60% off)

· Hyperparasite – $17.99 to $3.59 (80% off)

· Blazing Beaks – 14.99$ to 1.99 (86% off)

If you visit the link, you’ll notice that you can also take part in competitions to win free games and eShop vouchers, as well as a custom-painted Switch console. The sale and competitions are live for residents in North and South America, Europe, Africa, Australia, and New Zealand.

Enjoy!

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It varies from person to person, of course, but your favourite console generation is often the one you played most in childhood — in that impressionable pre-to-early teen sweet spot where a foundation of gaming memories are formed. That’s when you play the classics you return to later in life for the sheer pleasure of seeing old friends and blasting though a comfortingly familiar game using muscle memory. For many of us, the 16-bit era cemented our love for video games, and later this month the Super Famicom turns 25.

With the anniversary fast approaching, we’d like your help to assemble the top 50 Super NES games ever. We recently asked asked you to rank the top 50 Wii games, and the ordering of this list will be similarly fluid, dictated by the games’ User Ratings in the Nintendo Life Games database and therefore subject to change even after publication. Once an entry reaches a minimum number of ratings, it becomes eligible for our Top 50 SNES games list.

Below you’ll find a partial list of the SNES library. Feel free to let us know in the comments anything missing that you’d like to rate — preferably games you think could make the top 50 — and we’ll do our best to accommodate additions. To rate any title, simply scroll through the alphabetical list to find the game you want (or type the title into the search bar at the top to save your scrolling finger), click the star to bring up a rating of 1-10, and click the score you feel it deserves — job done! If you’ve previously rated your SNES games, just put your feet up; those scores are already logged. And if you need a reminder on a particular game, feel free to click the game title and check out our vintage reviews and screenshots.

We’ll publish the results around the anniversary, but in the meantime happy rating!

Thank you for rating your favourites (or otherwise). Feel free to discuss your favourite Super Nintendo games below, and we’ll reveal the results next week.

We’ve already compiled the Best 3DS games, the Best Game Boy games, the Best GameCube games, the Best Nintendo DS games and the Best N64 games, so check out those lists if you can’t get enough of Nintendo’s copious back catalogue. If you’re after something less retro and more modern, we’ve also got the Best Switch games (so far) available for your perusal.

Users of MFi heading aids are reporting problems using their audio devices with the iPhone 12, with some also experiencing static issues along with difficulty in pairing them with the new smartphones.

Launching later this month on Switch is Tiny World Racing, a cute little top-down racer that may well provide some cost-efficient multiplayer fun.

The game has players blasting their way through a variety of environments in 20 tracks across five different tournaments. You’ll come up against settings like crumbling castles and volcanic islands, either alone in a Tournament mode or with friends in local split-screen multiplayer.

Features:
– Tournament Mode – Compete with your opponents across 4 tracks to win the gold, silver or bronze cup
– Quick Race – Dive into your favourite track without the pressure of a whole tournament
– Local Multiplayer – Grab a few friends and battle it out from the comfort of your couch

It launches on 27th November and will be priced at just £2.69 / $3.99. A launch discount will lower this to £1.34 / $1.99, so early buyers will be able to jump in for a very low price indeed.

What do you think? Worth a go for the price? Share your thoughts with us in the comments.

The Custom Translator journey to be on the leading edge of machine translation technology continues.

In early August 2020, we started our Custom Translator upgrade from Long Short-Term Memory (aka LSTM) based neural machine translation architecture (or V1) to our Microsoft Translator’s state-of-the-art Transformer based architecture (or V2). V2 is the same translation architecture which powers the standard uncustomized Translator API, as well as translation in Microsoft Office 365, Speech, Bing.com/translator, Edge, and more.

The August release enabled customers to use the dictionary (phrase or sentence) document type to build custom models on top of the V2 platform for a quick translation quality improvement over the V1 platform.

Today, Custom Translator completed the full V2 platform upgrade to deliver an even bigger translation quality gain than before. Customers can now build custom models with all document types (Training, Testing, Tuning, Phrase Dictionary and Sentence Dictionary) using full text documents, like Office documents, PDFs, HTML and plain text.

With this release, enterprises, small and medium sized businesses, app developers, and language service providers can build advanced custom neural translation systems that respect their defined business terminology and seamlessly integrate those systems into existing or new applications, workflows, and websites to attract customers and grow the business.

We put every new baseline language model through a rigorous human evaluation process to ensure the translation quality continues to meet high standards on generic input across all domains. However, with custom trained specialized translation systems, customers can achieve much higher adherence to the domain-specific terminology and style by training a custom translation system on previously translated, in-domain documents. These previously translated documents allow Custom Translator to learn the preferred translations in context, so Translator can apply these terms and phrases when the context calls for it, and produce a fluent translation in the target language, respecting the context-dependent grammar of the target language.

Benefits of the upgrade

We use BLEU score (a standard way in the research community) to measure the translation quality of a newly trained baseline model. A one or two BLEU point gain is a worthy achievement. The Custom Translator V2 platform upgrade will deliver significant improvements when compared to the previous V1 platform. The bar chart below depicts the translation quality BLEU score improvement for some domains and the impact of training dataset size.

Sample domains translation quality BLEU score when using standard Translator, Custom Translator V1, and Custom Translator V2.
Training dataset size in thousands (‘auto-28k’ means 28,000 parallel sentences for the automotive domain)

It is important to note that actual quality improvement is dependent upon customer data quality, training dataset size, and domain coverage.

“We’re hoping that translation through a neural network will not only boost quality and speed, but also offer advances in the evaluation of big data,” said Nikolas Meyer-Aun, Head of Quality and Supplier Management for Languages at Volkswagen AG

Custom Translator will offer FREE upgrade to V2. You can retrain one model per project in a workspace to the V2 platform at no charge. When you view a project, you should see a message if you still have free upgrade credit for that project. The offer starts today and ends on January 31, 2021. After January 31, 2021, normal training charges apply for each retraining.

You can learn more about the upgrade to version 2 in the FAQ below.

FAQ

1. What are you releasing in V2?
   We are releasing a Custom Translator platform upgrade (V2) to deliver significant translation quality improvements using Microsoft’s state-of-the-art neural machine translation architecture. The user experience remains the same as in V1. There is nothing new to learn, just better translations. For a quick refresher, please watch this Quick-Start video.
2. What is the benefit of upgrading a currently deployed model to the V2 platform?
   Significantly improved translation quality; the Custom Translator V2 platform upgrade will deliver significant improvement over standard Translator and the previous V1 platform. The bar chart above shows the translation quality BLEU scores for some common domains and the impact of training dataset size.
3. How do I use my FREE upgrade to V2 credit?
   When you view a project details, a free credit message becomes visible (see images below) and will continue to be visible until you either successfully retrain a model or the offer ends on January 31, 2021.
   

   

   

   

4. How do I upgrade my deployed (or undeployed) custom models to the V2 platform?
   If you have a deployed or undeployed dictionary-only model that was retrained after August 3, 2020, it has already been upgraded to the V2 platform. Otherwise, you should launch a new model training. Once the new model is successfully trained, the “Swap” button will be visible. Click “Swap” to deploy the new model. Note: “Swap” button enables no-downtime deployment. That is, all translation requests will continue to be served by the previous model until the new model is deployed and functional, then the new model will serve new translation requests and the previous model will be undeployed.
5. Can I continue to re-deploy V1 custom models after the V2 platform upgrade?
   Yes. We understand there may be reasons customers would want to continue using models trained on the V1 platform. V1 models can run on the V2 platform. In the future, V1 models will not be re-deployable. Note: Once you retrain a V1 model, the new model will be on the V2 platform. The “Model” tab will show all new (V2) and previous (V1) models.
6. I’m new to customizing translations, how do I get started using Custom Translator?
   To build a custom model, watch the Quick-Start video above and refer to the documentation on docs.microsoft.com: https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/cognitive-services/translator/custom-translator/overview

What you can do with Microsoft Custom Translator

Build custom models with your domain specific terminology and translate real-time using the Microsoft Translator API.

Use Microsoft Custom Translator with your translation solutions to help globalize your business and improve customer interactions.

For more information on Microsoft Translator solutions please visit: https://www.microsoft.com/translator/business.

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