How Bungie built Marathon’s live-service experience years before the game even launched

Bungie and Kurppa Hosk explain how they built a live-service experience with ARGs years before the game was released ...
MMORPG.com

Temtem: Pioneers (Codename: Downbelow) is An Open-World Survival Crafting ARPG, With Creature Collecting

Originally teased as "Project Downbelow", has been officially revealed. Temtem: Pioneers is an open-world survival crafting ...
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What were our bots doing... #shorts

Military plane with 110 soldiers on board crashes in Colombia William Shatner turns 95 and gives blunt life advice that keeps him 'smokin' Dietitians say you shouldn't take these vitamins in the ...
Futurism

Man Pleads Guilty to Making $8 Million by Creating Music With AI and Using Bots to Drive Zillions of Fake Streams

Add Futurism (opens in a new tab) Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. For quite some time now, ...
Pocket Gamer.Biz

Discord expands its Social SDK with native mobile linking and focus on friends

Discord's Social SDK now has fully native mobile linking on iOS and Android. Linked players are said to have 16% longer play sessions. Discord is offering new ways for developers to reduce friction in ...
Polygon

Epic Games warns Fortnite players about bot-controlled V-bucks scams

It's been a rough couple of months for Fortnite fans since Epic Games enabled creative island creators to offer in-game transactions. Perhaps unsurprisingly, most of the drama centers on a single ...
CNET

A New Mini Game Boy Collectible That Just Plays Pokemon Music? What a Tease

A surprise collectible on Pokemon Day looks just like a tiny Game Boy and plays music on swappable cartridges for $70. Give us the real Game Boy again, come on. I started with CNET reviewing laptops ...
IGN

Prepare for treble.

Buried between fresh footage of Pokémon Pokopia and today's truly momentous Gen 10 announcement for Pokémon Winds and Waves, Nintendo announced a miniature version of its legendary Game Boy — that's ...
New Scientist

Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week

A clump of human brain cells can play the classic computer game Doom. While its performance is not up to par with humans, experts say it brings biological computers a step closer to useful real-world ...
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 ...
PCGamesN

Discord delays its age verification, admits it knew the rollout was "going to be controversial" and that it "failed at its most basic job"

After constant pushback from its users, popular chat platform Discord is pulling back on plans to introduce a "global age assurance" process, admitting in a statement that the company "failed at our ...