An AI Helped Build a Full Online Game World in a Weekend. Then Players Around the World Started Building It Too.

World of ClaudeCraft began as a 48-hour experiment with Anthropic's Claude Fable 5. It's now a free, living multiplayer game ...
XDA Developers on MSN

I used Meta Llama 4, Qwen 3-Coder and Gemma 4 to develop a Python app, and only one model is worth keeping for developers

Putting some of the best local models to the development test ...
Polygon

Paramount announces new games studio to get serious about Star Trek, TMNT, and SpongeBob

Multimedia titan Paramount is getting into games in a big way, the company announced Friday alongside Summer Game Fest. A new games division, Paramount Games Studio, will now oversee all the company’s ...
The Washington Post

Artists behind Trump statues on the Mall create video game to protest Iran war

The anonymous artists responsible for satirical art installations aimed at the Trump administration on the National Mall — including a golden “throne” toilet and statues of President Donald Trump with ...
InfoWorld

Why it’s so hard to create stand-alone Python apps

If Python developers have one consistent gripe about their beloved language, it tends to be this: Why is it so hard to take a Python program and deploy it as a standalone artifact, the way C, C++, ...
IGN

Fortnite Adding Ability to Create Your Own Star Wars Games This Week

Fortnite will finally allow creators to make their own officially-licensed Star Wars minigames, beginning this week. The ability to create Star Wars-themed games within Fortnite has long been promised ...
The New York Times

Playing Games With the Décor

Dedicated rooms at home for board games, jigsaw puzzles and toys are making a comeback among the whimsical at heart. By Dina Cheney When the owners of a curiosity shop, Art of Play, renovated a condo ...
Polygon

The RAM crisis could completely change the way your games are made

There were a lot of reasons for developers to be stressed out at this year's Game Developers Conference. Layoffs at EA the day the event started put job insecurity in the air, generative AI's presence ...
GamesIndustry

Google unveils new AI cloud tools to support game development

Google has detailed the next phase of its 'Living Games' concept: using autonomous AI agents as a core component to support cloud-based game development. Announced at GDC Festival of Gaming, Google ...
Digital Trends

Unity will soon let you create casual games using simple text prompts

Making a video game usually means learning to code, working with complex game engines, and spending hours piecing everything together. That is true even for simple casual games. Many aspiring ...
TweakTown

Unity AI will let you create 'full casual games' with text prompts and no coding experience

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. Unity is a versatile cross-platform game engine that has been around since 2005, supporting console, PC, and mobile. Some of the more notable ...
The Verge

AI can’t make good video game worlds yet, and it might never be able to

Project Genie is an underwhelming glimpse into what may come. Project Genie is an underwhelming glimpse into what may come. is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The ...