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)...
