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

Last month, Google launched Project Genie, an “early research prototype” that lets users generate sandbox worlds using text or image prompts that they can explore for 60 seconds. Right now, the tool ...
Rock Paper Shotgun

"The hardest game in the world to make" - How Darkhaven hopes to rebottle Diablo 2's lightning by channelling Minecraft

The former Blizzard North devs of Moon Beast discuss Darkhaven - a dream about dynamic, persistent worlds that dates back to the original Diablo.

A New Way to Build 2D Materials Without Harsh Chemicals Pays Off Big

MXenes are an emerging class of two-dimensional materials whose properties depend sensitively on the atoms bound to their surfaces. A new synthesis approach now allows researchers to control these ...
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Making F1 engines has shown Ford how to beat Chinese EVs

The CEO of Ford, Jim Farley, has explained in a recent interview how producing Formula 1 engines with Red Bull has shown the American automaker how to beat the Chinese competition. Donald Trump’s ...
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Making F1 Engines has Showed Ford how to Beat Chinese EVs

The CEO of Ford, Jim Farley, has explained in a recent interview how producing Formula 1 engines with Red Bull has shown the American automaker how to beat the Chinese competition. Shamima Begum ...
GameSpot

Hytale Console Version Planned, But Developers Want To "Focus On Making A Good Game First"

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The boxy sandbox game Hytale is now available in early access, but as of now, the anticipated indie title is only on PC. Hypixel, the team behind ...
Polygon

Racing games are making a comeback in 2026

It would be inaccurate to say that the racing game genre has been in a total slump over the last few years. After all, Mario Kart World was one of the best-selling games of 2025 — as was the ...
PC Gamer

An indie dev worried about being seen as a ripoff after discovering a game similar to the one they were making, but then the original dev responded: 'Don't be discouraged'

"There's plenty of room to do Gunforged better than I did," says its creator. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.
GamesRadar+

"We love making games more than we love managing": Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead says "it's good to have limitations," so the RPG studio won't "scale up" for any future projects

RPGs 34-year game dev veteran says Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 "ruined" his worldview on AAA development RPGs Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 devs' next game will focus on "what we think is cool" rather ...
Search Engine Land

Google explains JavaScript execution on non-200 HTTP status codes

Google made another change to the JavaScript SEO documentation help document to explain and clarify JavaScript execution on non-200 HTTP status codes. The change. Google wrote, “All pages with a 200 ...
Search Engine Roundtable

Google Updates JavaScript SEO Doc With Setting Canonical URL Advice

Google updated its JavaScript SEO best practices document with a new section on how to set the canonial URL when using JavaScript. Google wrote, "The best way to set the canonical URL is to use HTML, ...
GitHub

Game FrameWork for JavaScript 2D WebGL Games. Unity-inspired architecture: GameObject, Physics, Body, Container, Sprite, Animator, StateMachine, TextureAtlas, Resources loading.

When you create a game world, its good to organize it in a tree like way of hierarchy of objects. Let's take almost any entity in any game, most likely it has some stuff attached in this hierarchy (a ...