A Roman board game has mystified researchers for years. AI discovered how to play

By simulating thousands of matches and analyzing wear patterns, researchers reconstructed the rules of a long-lost blocking ...
XDA Developers on MSN

This ESP32 augmented reality game turns your living room into a firing range

It even has a gun-shaped controller.
The World from PRX

A new South African video heist game robs museums to return African art

Is it theft to take back what was stolen? That question drives the new video game Relooted. The goal is to recover real ancient African artifacts currently displayed in Western museums. The game’s ...
Game Rant

Games Where The Tutorial Lies To You

An HR advisor with a background in recruitment and HRIS functions, with a passion for video games and writing. Oliver grew up playing Call of Duty with his siblings and has garnered 1000s of hours ...
GameSpot

Video Game Concept Artists Say GenAI Isn't Making Things Easier

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Generative AI has been at the forefront of the conversation for the past few years, with companies becoming divisive on how to implement it, if at all ...
IGN

Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI'

This morning, the news broke that Larian Studios, developer of Baldur's Gate 3 and the upcoming, just-announced Divinity, is apparently using generative AI behind the scenes for things like concept ...
Engadget

YouTube is letting creators make playable games with a Gemini 3 tool

Google's at it again, once more insisting that AI is something people need or want more of in their lives. The latest move comes from YouTube Gaming, which announced an open beta for a project called ...
Polygon

BG3 studio Larian says it's using genAI for Divinity, but not 'looking at trimming down teams to replace them'

Baldur's Gate 3 and Divinity Original Sin developer Larian Studios generated a ton of hype (and no shortage of revulsion) when it revealed its next big role-playing game, Divinity, at The Game Awards ...
TweakTown

Notepad now lets you create tables, but is it one feature too many for this simple app?

TL;DR: Microsoft Notepad for Windows 11 now supports table creation with an easy toolbar grid and enhanced AI-powered Write, Rewrite, and Summarize tools for faster text generation. While these ...
MIT Technology Review

Google DeepMind is using Gemini to train agents inside Goat Simulator 3

SIMA 2, which can figure out how to solve problems inside virtual worlds, could lead to more general-purpose agents and better robots. Google DeepMind has built a new video-game-playing agent called ...
The New York Times

Netflix Tries Bringing Family Game Night to Your TV

The company is shifting its video game strategy to focus more on popular games you already know, such as Pictionary and Boggle. Credit... Supported by By Nicole Sperling Reporting from Los Angeles ...
Polygon

As the CEO of Arc Raiders publisher Nexon says AI is everywhere, game devs call 'BS'

Arc Raiders' use of AI tools continues to create divides in gaming. The CEO of its developer's parent company, Nexon, recently claimed that generative artificial intelligence tools are everywhere in ...