The past few years have felt like an embarrassment of riches when it comes to RPGs, and so expectations were high going into 2025. Thankfully, the last 12 months certainly lived up to such a bar.

It has been an exceptional time to be an RPG fan. In just six years, we've had Disco Elysium, Baldur's Gate 3, Elden Ring, and so much more, and 2025 has proved to be yet another corker of a year for ...

Abstract: Pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) are the de-facto foundation models for various downstream tasks. However, scene text recognition methods still prefer backbones pre-trained on a ...