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Why Games Work, And How To Build Them

Most humans like games. But what are games, exactly? Not in a philosophical sense, but in the sense of “what exactly are ...

"We feel this is the best game in franchise history": New Nioh 3 demo will be out with multiplayer almost as soon as 2026 hits

Team Ninja and Koei Tecmo's Soulslike RPG series is coming back for a third round of bloody fights and grotesque monsters ...

This '90s CG render-core 3D platformer is finally out in early access after 'five years of hermetic grinding' from its solo dev

Taking after '90s CG imagery like those Bryce 3D renders ⁠—you'll recognize the visuals if not the name⁠—its characters look ...

YouTube is letting creators make playable games with a Gemini 3 tool

YouTube is launching a closed Beta test for Playables Builder, a prototype web app built using Gemini 3 where users create games with short text, video or image prompts. we’ve partnered with YouTube ...

This roguelite claims to have the dubious honor of being 'the world's first fully playable game created 100% through AI' in a milestone for slop everywhere

It feels like generative AI is everywhere in game development—a Google survey estimated 87% of game developers are using it ...

The new James Bond is 26, unpolished, and ‘looking for purpose’ as 007 — and he had to be

But there are still stakes to adapting 007 for the current console era: to escape the shadow of GoldenEye and chase the glory ...
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How to Play the Fallout Games in Chronological Order

Envisioning an alternate-universe, retro futuristic apocalypse teeming with mutated monsters, soldiers in hulking power armor and sinister human experiments disguised as bomb shelters, the Fallout ...
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Id Software released its first game 35 years ago today — Commander Keen title showcased John Carmack’s breakthrough side-scroller engine

Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons - Episode 1: Marooned on Mars was released by a dev team including John Carmack ...

How to install and configure Claude Code, step by step

Curious about Anthropic's AI coding tool but unsure where to begin? My walkthrough covers pricing, installation, authorization, and project initialization so developers can get up and running smoothly ...