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...
AI Duel Helps Reconstruct Rules of Mysterious Roman Board Game
Artificial intelligence can already take notes during doctor appointments, help with schoolwork, and detect cancer... when it's not causing harm. Now researchers have applied AI to solve the mystery of an ancient board game. In...
Claude Opus 4.6 breaks benchmark record but uses deceptive tactics and price-fixing
Anthropic's latest model, Claude Opus 4.6, achieved the highest score on Vending-Bench, reaching an average balance of $8,017 – significantly higher than Gemini 3's previous record of $5,478. However, the methods the model used to...
AI bots are rapidly taking over the internet and already account for significant share of web traffic
Remember the viral assistant OpenClaw? Until recently, we discussed it as just another amusing neural network add-on, but today it has become a symbol of an era's end. The network we built for humans is...
NVIDIA won't release new graphics cards in 2026 – first time in 30 years
NVIDIA faces serious challenges with its consumer graphics card plans. According to a new report from The Information, the company has completely abandoned launching the RTX 50 SUPER series this year and significantly cut production...
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:...
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...
Google's new AI world model spooked videogame investors, but its real potential remains unclear
Last week Google unveiled Project Genie – an AI model for creating interactive "worlds" – and gaming company stocks like Unity and Take-Two responded with a drop. However, if the decline in stock prices was...
Google opens access to Project Genie AI tool for creating interactive worlds from photos
Google DeepMind made its Genie 3 technology available to users through Project Genie. The system is a world model – an AI capable of generating images and reacting (to the extent possible) to user actions...
The Elder Scrolls Online developers haven't found use for generative AI in development because they enjoy doing their own work
Microsoft actively promotes the idea that using generative AI in daily work can boost productivity tenfold. However, even the corporation's own studios are in no rush to implement this technology in game development. Executive producer...
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...
