CALLING ALL BUILDERS, DREAMERS, AND REALITY-EXPANDERS

All entries must be original PC-based prototypes submitted via the official Itch.io Game Jam page. Participants can also join the Game Jam Discord to find teammates and collaborate. In addition to ...

'We're playing game designs from 2005 still': Caves of Qud's co-creator wants to build new kinds of sicko gameplay systems that'll use all the processing potential be…

Caves of Qud is famously complex, simulating a surreal science-future where your player character can sprout new limbs at a ...
Rock Paper Shotgun

"You're swimming against the tide making games like this": Why more developers didn't copy Firewatch's reactive storytelling

Firewatch was meant to spark a subgenre but its influence didn't spread. A decade on, we ask why Roblox and Minecraft are ...
New Scientist

AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations

Advanced AI models appear willing to deploy nuclear weapons without the same reservations humans have when put into simulated geopolitical crises. Kenneth Payne at King’s College London set three ...
IGN

Night in the Woods, Usual June among games impacted.

Finji, publisher of beloved indie titles such as Night in the Woods and Tunic and the developer behind Overland and Usual June, says that TikTok has been using generative AI to modify its ads on the ...
Health.com

6 Ways To Build Strength Without Ever Going to the Gym

Jenessa Connor is a writer with experience writing health, fitness, and nutrition topics for publications, websites, companies, and experts in wellness spaces. For those who don’t enjoy the gym, ...
Tidbits

Dialed Game Tests Your Color Memory

The designers at Lightspark write: Humans can’t reliably recall colors. This is a simple game to see how good (or bad) you are at it. Dialed shows you a color for 5 seconds, then asks you to recreate ...
Wall Street Journal

Doctors Without Borders Says Gunmen Are Using a Gaza Hospital, Posing Risk to Patients and Staff

Doctors Without Borders suspended all noncritical services at one of Gaza’s largest hospitals, the group said, alleging that the facility was being used by armed men, some masked, to intimidate and ...
New York Post

Will NYC builders use their clout to stop Mamdani —and save the city?

The Manhattan commercial real estate industry hasn't yet shown that it will oppose Mayor Zohran Mamdani's socialist agenda. Gabriella Bass for NY Post The Partnership for New York City under new ...
The Conversation

Are video game developers using AI? Players want to know, but the rules are patchy

Thomas Byers receives funding from The Research Training Program Scholarship, supported by the Australian Commonwealth Government and the University of Melbourne. Bjorn Nansen receives funding from ...
People

Musician Seb McKinnon Calls Out Olympic Gold Medalist Amber Glenn for Allegedly Using His Music Without His Permission

The Texas-born ice skater won gold as a member of Team USA Andy Cheung/Getty American figure skater Amber Glenn used musician Seb McKinnon's song "The Return" during her free skate at the 2026 Winter ...
Scientific American

Rules of mysterious ancient Roman board game decoded by AI

It was the summer of 2020, and researcher Walter Crist was wandering around the exhibits inside a Dutch museum dedicated to the presence of the ancient Roman empire in the Netherlands. As a scientist ...