The story of Minecraft is one of the saddest in gaming history

Notch never followed up his miracle creation. Neither did Tetris’ Alexey Pajitnov. How come only one of them could live with ...
GamesIndustry.biz

This mobile game has been made using AI for a year now – and no one noticed

InnoGames explains how AI enabled Sunrise Village to avoid the chopping block, and why AI-assisted content generation could soon be standard practice ...
Game Rant

Some Gamers Will Get to Play Overwatch Creator Jeff Kaplan's New Game Later This Month

Jeff Kaplan's latest project begins its first public playtest soon, giving select players an early chance to try its survival action gameplay.
IGN

AI Will Change Games, but Not in the Way CEOs Think

Back in 2024, not long after laying off five percent of the company’s workforce, EA CEO Andrew Wilson got on a stage to wax poetic about all the ways generative AI would help take the gaming industry ...

After this game dev shared her prototype online, it took less than 5 hours for someone to post their vibecoded knockoff

"Someone already vibecoded (a bad clone of) this and shared it online because we live in the worst timeline," Holmér said ...

Share In The Incredible Moment An Indie Dev Discovers His Game Made $250,000

Tangy TD is a tower defense indie game with frantic action and explosively busy battles, and it could so easily have been one ...
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 more ...
CNET

My Kid Wanted Video Games. I Was Against It. This Console Gave Us Both the Win

When our 8-year-old started asking for video games, I knew we were about to engage in an uphill battle. Anytime we've been to ...
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YGG Play and Verse8 launch $5,000 casual Web3 games hackathon

In Brief $5,000 Hackathon: YGG Play and Verse8 collaborate to host a hackathon centered on casual Web3 games during Korea Buidl Week 2026. Event Focus: Participants are challenged to create "casual ...