Unity will soon let you create casual games using simple text prompts

Unity is preparing to roll out a new AI tool that can generate playable casual games from simple text prompts.

Homemade chess board moves its own pieces. And wins.

To move its own pieces, a motorized mechanism beneath the board guides an electromagnet along the underside. When activated, ...
The Verge

A former Netflix game studio went indie to reach more players

The cofounder of Spirit Crossing developer Spry Fox explains why the studio went back to being independent. The cofounder of Spirit Crossing developer Spry Fox explains why the studio went back to ...
InfoWorld

Getting started with GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio or VS Code

The way software is developed has undergone multiple sea changes over the past few decades. From assembly language to cloud-native development, from monolithic architecture to microservices, from ...
GameSpot

Create Your Own VR Games Bundle For Less Than $3 Per Game

If you find yourself with a shiny new Meta Quest headset during the holidays, be sure to check out the new Winter 2025 Edition of Fanatical's Build Your Own Quest VR Bundle deal. Like other Fanatical ...
IGN

Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI'

This morning, the news broke that Larian Studios, developer of Baldur's Gate 3 and the upcoming, just-announced Divinity, is apparently using generative AI behind the scenes for things like concept ...
Kotaku

‘Godfather Of BioWare Design’ Steps Down At The Studio Making An Ambitious Successor To Mass Effect

James Ohlen joined Wizards of the Coast back in 2019 after a 22-year stint at BioWare to create a new IP for the Hasbro-owned tabletop gaming company. Six years later, after cofounding Archetype ...
Polygon

BG3 studio Larian says it's using genAI for Divinity, but not 'looking at trimming down teams to replace them'

Baldur's Gate 3 and Divinity Original Sin developer Larian Studios generated a ton of hype (and no shortage of revulsion) when it revealed its next big role-playing game, Divinity, at The Game Awards ...
TWCN Tech News

Create real-time interactive flowcharts for your code using VS Code CodeVisualizer

In this post, we will show you how to create real-time interactive flowcharts for your code using VS Code CodeVisualizer. CodeVisualizer is a free, open-source Visual Studio Code extension that ...
The New York Times

Indian boy, aged 3, becomes youngest rated chess player in history

Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha has become the youngest player in chess history to earn an official FIDE rating at the age of three years, seven months and 20 days. Born in 2022, Sarwagya — from Sagar in the ...
Business Wire

Sony Interactive Entertainment Partners With Bad Robot Games to Produce and Publish the Studio’s First Internally Developed Game

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) today announced a partnership with video game studio Bad Robot Games, a division of Bad Robot, the film, television and theater ...
9to5google

Google launches Workspace Studio to create automated Gemini-powered agents

After teasing at I/O 2024 and announcing this April, Google today is launching Workspace Studio as a new automation tool that lets you “design, manage, and share AI agents” powered by Gemini 3’s ...