Creator of Task Manager is training an AI to beat one of the most punishing arcade games ever made
Dave Plummer, the former Microsoft engineer best known for creating Task Manager and 3D Pinball for Windows, has set his sights on a new challenge. After successfully training an AI to master Tempest – the...
Krafton CEO used ChatGPT to plot the Unknown Worlds takeover, court documents reveal
The legal battle over Subnautica 2 keeps getting stranger. According to a ruling by judge Lori W. Will, Krafton CEO Kim Chang-han turned to ChatGPT for advice on how to seize control of Unknown Worlds...
Real life caught up to Kojima – AI founders have names straight out of Metal Gear Solid
Hideo Kojima is famous for many things – his (at least meme-level) genius games, endless cinematic cutscenes, and character names that sound like they were generated by a broken random word machine. Hot Coldman, Die-Hardman,...
Trump supporters have fallen for an AI character "Jessica Foster" with nearly a million Instagram followers
An Instagram account called "Jessica Foster" (@jessicaa.foster) – supposedly a U.S. Army soldier and passionate Trump supporter – has quietly amassed nearly 900,000 followers in just a few months, with the number still climbing toward...
AI "actress" Tilly Norwood is getting a whole Tillyverse – and new AI castmates
Xicoia, the British AI talent studio behind the fully AI-generated "actress" Tilly Norwood, has announced a major expansion of the project. Later this year, the company plans to launch what it's calling the Tillyverse –...
Gartner predicts sub-$500 entry-level PCs will disappear by 2028
Gartner, one of the most respected analyst firms in the tech industry, has published a forecast that's bound to be unwelcome news for budget-conscious buyers. According to the report, the entry-level PC segment priced below...
DeepSeek reportedly blocked Nvidia and AMD from early access to V4, giving Chinese suppliers a head start
According to sources speaking to Reuters, Chinese AI company DeepSeek has denied Nvidia and AMD early access to its upcoming V4 model update – the same company that rattled the US AI market last year...
OpenAI strikes a deal with the Pentagon hours after the Trump admin banned Anthropic
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced a deal with the U.S. Department of Defense that would allow the company's AI tools to be used in classified military systems – with conditions that appear to mirror almost...
Nvidia gaming GPU revenue dropped 13% despite record $215.9B in annual earnings
Nvidia has published its financial results for fiscal Q4 2026, and the numbers tell a complicated story. On one hand, the company continues to pull in staggering sums of money. On the other, gaming GPU...
Sam Altman compared AI energy use to the cost of raising a human being
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman pushed back against criticism of AI's environmental impact while speaking at an event hosted by The Indian Express as part of a major AI summit in India, calling some of the...
Fan is making a full-length Half-Life movie using AI
The creator behind the idea for Half-Life movie shared a clip of Gordon Freeman in his HEV suit fleeing from a giant walking barnacle. The image quality was high enough to split viewers into two...
86-year-old farmer turned down $15 million to keep his land away from AI data centers
The immense hype surrounding AI has caused enormous data centers to crop up across the country, triggering significant opposition. It's not just the loss of land: enormous power needs are pushing the grid into meltdown...
Phil Spencer retiring from Xbox after 25 years, to be replaced by Microsoft AI executive
Microsoft announced a major leadership shakeup at Xbox. Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer is retiring, and Xbox president Sarah Bond is also leaving the company. Asha Sharma, formerly president of Microsoft's CoreAI division, has been...
Todd Howard says AI is 'not a fad' but won't use it to replace handcrafted human creativity
Todd Howard – game director of Elder Scrolls 6 and Fallout 5 – has weighed in on AI in game development, and his position is one of careful observation. In a February 18 interview with...
A Japanese toilet manufacturer turned out to be one of the surprise winners of the AI boom
The memory supply crisis rages on, fueled by AI datacenters' insatiable appetite for RAM and storage. Consumer prices remain unjustifiably high, and manufacturers themselves are struggling with rising costs from their own suppliers. But the...
ARC Raiders robots aren't actually learning from your behavior, despite the popular theory
Since launch, ARC Raiders has had a theory circulating among players: that the game's robot enemies are adapting to human behavior, memorizing favorite hiding spots, and finding increasingly effective ways to hunt players down. Some...
AI-coding market reaches point where vibecoders seek vibecoders to fix code from other vibecoders
A job listing recently appeared on freelance platform Upwork that perfectly illustrates the state of AI development industry in 2025 – a client is looking for a vibecoder to finish an app that a previous...
Unity promises code-free game creation with AI as stock plummets
Unity continues betting on generative AI despite falling stock prices and industry skepticism. The company announced a new version of its AI tool that will supposedly eliminate the need for coding entirely. According to GameDeveloper,...
New fake GTA 6 screenshots show nighttime Vice City
The information drought surrounding Grand Theft Auto 6 continues to spawn new waves of fake content. This time, social media has been flooded with nighttime screenshots from an allegedly leaked build of the game, showcasing...
Hollywood and VFX specialists panic after release of AI video generator Seedance 2.0
TikTok owners ByteDance released new video generator Seedance 2.0, triggering widespread concern across the film industry. A viral clip featuring Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt fighting, created using just two lines of text prompt, sparked...
