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I watched the State of Unreal keynote on a Tuesday lunch break, eating cold pad thai at my desk, and I knew which slide was coming before…...
You built the badge system, watched sign-ups spike for a few weeks, and now the same streak that once drove daily logins barely registers. That pattern is not a fluke. Gamification in customer engagement means applying game mechanics such as points, ...
rh1tech has published FRANK-386, an i386 PC emulator that runs on the RP2350, the chip on the Raspberry Pi Pico 2. It is based on Tiny386 by Chunhui He, ported to the microcontroller by Mikhail Matveev and DnCraptor....
gpasquero has published the source for Vintage Emulator Studio (VES) on GitHub. VES is an audio plug-in for macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel), Windows, and Linux, in AU and VST3 formats where supported, plus a standalone application. It wraps a curated...
In esports, success is often measured in milliseconds. A single decision can decide a match. Yet some competitions test far more than reaction speed and strategic execution. World of Warcraft’s Race to World First is one of those events....
I wanted to make something my daughter could enjoy. AI made it possible for me to actually try....
A new project called zSST is a SystemVerilog implementation of the 3dfx Voodoo Graphics chipset, the SST-1. Paired with the z486 soft CPU and the rest of a PC’s hardware, it forms z486 XL: a DOS machine with Voodoo graphics running entirely in the pr...
Marcin Wichary, writing on his blog Unsung, points readers to the Game UI Database, a reference site covering the interfaces of almost 2,000 games through more than 75,000 screenshots. It was built by Edd Coates, who calls himself a UI artist. The si...
Alfonso Maruccia at TechSpot reports that the RPCS3 team has added direct disc play to the PlayStation 3 emulator. Games can now boot straight from their original Blu-ray discs, with no need for external servers. Developers “digant73” and “Megamouse”...
Artificial Agency, an AI company pioneering agentic behavior for gaming, today announced that it has integrated its Behavior Engine into Owlchemy Labs’ Dimensional Double Shift, powering an all-new Single Player Mode. The mode brings the game’s signa...
Picture this. It’s Monday morning. You’re in the game dev standup, coffee hasn’t kicked in yet, and everyone wants answers....
Humans say 17 in this game. One model said 19, the other said 14, and they landed on opposite sides of the human answer....
Brewser is a homebrew web runtime for modded Switch consoles. The app Matrix Studio lets you drive an LED Matrix from your Switch!...
I spent the first phase of my Shipaton build getting a weather satellite pipeline to work. It worked. Then I looked at what it produced and cut it from the core of the app....
It was just a silly game side project. But, as I grew my sim to 3,000 matches, I levelled up on edge routing, flattening memory spikes and hardcore monitoring.
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On August 25, I submitted Adversary to Apple App Review. I liked the date. I was born on the 25th. My wife and I first met on the 25th. Our wedding was originally planned for the 25th. So, naturally, August 25 felt like a good day to submit the game ...
Learn how RAM affects your computer's performance and what capacity works best for your needs. Explore general memory guidance for everyday use, gaming, and more, and find out when an upgrade can make a real difference....
Gaze control has always felt like a luxury feature. The good hardware, such as Tobii bars, dedicated IR trackers, costs more than the games you'd play with it, and every tutorial seems to assume you already own one. So I asked the obvious question: h...
Developer k6lcm has published NES Radar which turns an original Nintendo Entertainment System into a live air traffic scope. Enter any airport’s four-letter ICAO code on the NES controller, press Start, and aircraft flying near that airport show up a...
Pio has spent over a year building NOMAD, a Cyberpunk 2077 inspired electric guitar posted on the PJRC forum. The base is a Harley Benton JA DIY kit, rebuilt around custom electronics. The pickguard is itself a large PCB running a Cypress PSoC5LP, ha...
Xbox introduces 15-hour monthly limit on cloud gaming for Game Pass Standard users, affecting streaming access across devices while Ultimate tier remains
Most game "AI" is a lie, and a good one. The guard who flanks you, the boss who dodges your attacks, the enemy that seems to read your mind, and almost all of it is a decision tree, a finite state machine, or a pile of if statements a designer hand-t...
Sourav Rudra reports at It’s FOSS that Ubisoft is dropping Linux support for its melee fighting game For Honor. Starting September 10, the game will no longer be playable on Linux desktops or the Steam Deck. The cutoff lands the same day the game’s R...
