Hideo Kojima abruptly cancels GDC keynote appearance one month before conference
Hideo Kojima, creator of the Metal Gear series and Death Stranding games, was set to deliver the keynote address at Game Developers Conference 2026. However, with just one month until the event, Kojima Productions announced...
Baldur's Gate 3 creators split on upcoming HBO series
HBO is developing a Baldur's Gate series helmed by Craig Mazin, creator of Chernobyl and The Last of Us adaptation. With Larian Studios decisively moved on from Dungeons & Dragons and the new series likely...
Modder creates quest for The Witcher 3 letting you play as Ciri in Kovir
Right after The Witcher 4's presentation at Game Awards 2024, modders immediately started porting the older Ciri into The Witcher 3. Now one of them has taken things further by creating a full story quest...
New service lets AI agents hire humans for real-world tasks
Last weekend, crypto engineer Alexander Liteplo launched RentAHuman.ai – a platform where AI agents can hire real people to perform physical tasks. The project positions itself as a "meat layer for AI" and openly declares:...
Anthropic promises not to add ads to Claude unlike ChatGPT
Anthropic officially stated that the Claude chatbot will remain ad-free. The company's decision runs counter to competitor OpenAI's policy, which recently introduced ads into ChatGPT for many users. Anthropic representatives explained that "incorporating ads into...
Daniel Vávra says AI will forever change the gaming industry and compares haters to pedestrians who curse at cars
Daniel Vávra, writer and game director of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2, posted a statement about artificial intelligence on social media. The developer responded to a video showcasing impressive progress in creating photorealistic content through generative...
Virtuos worked on Fallout season 2, but that doesn't mean Fallout 3 and New Vegas remasters are coming
Virtuos has become recognizable to gamers thanks to its work on major remasters like Oblivion Remastered and Metal Gear Solid Delta. However, over several decades the company has quietly contributed to major franchises, including film...
The Game Awards 2026 date announced – internet jokes GTA 6 will be most anticipated game again
Geoff Keighley officially confirmed that The Game Awards 2026 will once again take place on December 10, or the morning of December 11 for those living in the Eastern Hemisphere. The ceremony will traditionally be...
Artist creates custom game engine with CRT display simulation in 100 days
Indie developer Analog Dream Dev marked 100 days of developing their own game engine RetroEngine, built from scratch on Direct3D 12. The developer, originally an artist with no programming experience, documents the entire creation process...
Real-life building company uses The Sims 4 to showcase tiny homes
Worldwide Steel Buildings, a manufacturer of pre-engineered steel building kits, showcases real-life construction examples on its website. However, the tiny homes section caught the attention of the gaming community – The Sims 4 fans recognized...
One third of game developers no longer want to visit the United States
GDC organizers published the 2026 State of the Game Industry Report based on a survey of over 2,300 game industry professionals. It revealed growing concerns about traveling to the US for developers. 31% of industry...
France bans social media for teenagers under 15
France's National Assembly approved a bill banning social media for children under 15. The initiative passed with 116 votes in favor and 23 against. The document now moves to the Senate before final voting in...
YouTuber creates autonomous flying robo-umbrella
Engineer and filmmaker John Tse, who runs the I Build Stuff YouTube channel, unveiled an unusual invention – a fully autonomous flying umbrella. The gadget uses drone technology and a tracking system to hover above...
Bill Gates-backed startup develops optical transistors running at 56 GHz to rival Nvidia AI chips
Texas-based startup Neurophos, backed by Bill Gates' fund, developed an optical processing unit that the company claims is ten times more powerful than Nvidia's Vera Rubin NVL72 AI supercomputer in FP4 and INT4 compute workloads...
Battlefield 3 clip and Fable versus Ryse comparison spark debate on gaming graphics stagnation
Streamer Rock Solid shared footage from Battlefield 3 showing an F/A-18 Super Hornet taking off from an aircraft carrier and flying through a storm over the ocean. The post quoted another claiming graphics plateaued during...
Developer creates massive isometric pixel-art map of New York City entirely with AI
Andy Koenen, a Google Brain engineer, unveiled isometric.nyc – a massive isometric map of New York City styled after classic games like SimCity 2000, created entirely using AI coding agents. The developer didn't write a...
VTuber CodeMiko teaches real drone to fly in her virtual world
Youna Kang, known as VTuber CodeMiko, continues to amaze audiences with motion capture technology experiments. This time she shared a short video demonstrating integration of a real drone into her virtual Unreal Engine environment. The...
Mass deployment of robo-vans in China turns into road chaos – they drive like GTA Online players
Videos of autonomous delivery vans have flooded Chinese social media, showcasing both the capabilities and serious flaws of this emerging technology. The footage reveals how these driverless vehicles behave completely unpredictably on public roads. One...
SK Hynix invests $13 billion in new facility amid AI memory supply crisis
SK Hynix announced an investment of 19 trillion won ($12.9 billion) in a new advanced chip manufacturing facility in Cheongju, South Korea. SK Hynix serves as one of the leading suppliers of high-bandwidth memory (HBM)...
