Scientists Taught a Petri Dish of Brain Cells to Play Doom—They’re Getting Better

How many brain cells does it take to play a game of Doom?
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A Petri Dish Full Of Human Brain Cells Just Learned How To Play Doom

Forget playing Doom on a calculator. Now you can play it with a clump of brain cells--no brainstem necessary.

Panic’s gaming ambitions hinge on the weird and whimsical

Big Walk is emblematic of how Panic operates its gaming business. Sasser says there are no “hard-and-fast rules” about how it approaches the titles it works on. “It’s really just like: What will this ...
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Roblox: Blade Ball Codes (March 2026)

Tom Bowen is a senior editor who loves adventure games and RPGs. He's been playing video games for several decades now and writing about them professionally since 2020. Although he dabbles in news and ...

A petri dish of human neurons has learned to play Doom: 'The cells play a lot like a beginner who's never seen a computer, and in fairness, they haven't'

Understandably, you're likely scratching your head, wondering how it's even possible for a petri dish to play Doom. Good question. The answer is the CL1, "the world’s first code ...