But the new “Preview” app “will have some bugs,” Epic warns. Nearly eight years after Epic took on Steam with its own Game Store and launcher, the Fortnite maker is deploying a new tool to give it an edge over Valve: vibe coding. In announcing the new publicly available…
Tributes pour in for the man behind iconic Duke Nukem 3D levels and much more. Prolific first-person shooter level designer Richard “Levelord” Gray died Monday at the age of 68, based on reports shared on social media by Apogee Entertainment yesterday. He had “dealt with cancer on and off…
But third-party sellers, not Anbernic, are the ones routinely selling ROM-filled SD cards. For years, Chinese hardware manufacturers have carved out a market niche with an array of handheld Android gaming devices focused on retro emulation and/or more modern game-streaming capabilities. Now, though, a major game industry trade group…
“No more hand-written code” or AI-free art for delayed Marvel/Star Wars shooter. Epic Games is shifting to an “AI first” development strategy for its collaboration with the Walt Disney Company, letting AI models write all the code and guide all the artwork for an upcoming shooter. That’s according to…
Kojima’s discontinued “playable trailer” is no longer stuck on a few aging PS4 hard drives. For over a decade now, the only “official” way to play Hideo Kojima’s cult classic, P.T.—the long-discontinued “playable trailer” for Kojima’s canceled “Silent Hills” project—has been via one of the increasingly rare PlayStation 4s…
1,300 lines of SQL querying renders accurate bitmapped views of Hell at 35 fps. “Rendering Doom in a database is obviously a bad idea,” Lukas Vogel writes in a lengthy blog post explaining how exactly he managed to render Doom using an SQL database. OK, that’s not entirely accurate.…
Games like Astro Bot and Demon’s Souls are running ably without a console. For a long time, PC gamers could access many PlayStation 5 games only if the publisher invested in a bespoke port (something Sony has recently said it will be scaling back). Now, though, rapid advancements in…
New exploit works on all but the most recently updated consoles. For a few years now, the PS5 hacking community has been chipping away at various exploits that let users fully jailbreak their locked-down console. For the most part, though, those exploits have only worked with years-old versions of…
Activision gets Halo, Obsidian becomes part of Bethesda, and more internal shake-ups. When Xbox announced sweeping layoffs in July as part of a brutal “reset” for the gaming brand, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma said part of the pre-existing problem in the gaming unit was “teams, studios, and functions …
New system-level tools bring Arm chipsets, Android APKs into the Steam ecosystem. Since the release of the Steam Deck, Valve fans have gotten very familiar with the idea of the Proton compatibility layer that allows games written for Windows to run capably on the Linux-based SteamOS (though Valve’s efforts…
