The Donaldson Futuro House, a fibreglass flying-saucer-shaped dwelling designed by Finnish architect Matti Suuronen, has come onto the market in the San Jacinto Mountains near Idyllwild, California. The 793-square-foot structure, about 26 feet 4 inches in diameter and 13 feet 2 inches tall, has been fitted out as a fully functional home and is described by the listing agent as one of the rarest residential structures in America.
Citing sources, GamesBeat reports that Rockstar Games plans to launch Grand Theft Auto 6 on PC in the first quarter of 2027, a few months after its November 19 debut on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S. That gap would be far shorter than the roughly 19 months between GTA 5's 2013 console launch and its 2015 PC release.
Google is expanding its Ask Play chatbot into a broader AI-powered search tool for the Play Store, letting users ask questions and get app comparisons, with similar functionality coming to Gemini. The company also launched Game Finder, a recommendation engine using a 'Gamer DNA' profile built from usage data across 1.2 billion Android gamers, rolling out in the US now. Separately, Google plans to let users privately host and share apps they build themselves using AI coding tools through the Play Store.
A GamesBeat report citing unnamed sources says Grand Theft Auto VI could arrive on PC within the first three months of 2027. The console version launches November 19 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, with no official PC date yet confirmed by Rockstar Games.
The Corsair HS80 RGB Wireless gaming headset is now selling for $89.99, a 44% discount from its regular price. The deal matches the headset's previous all-time low price. The headset includes Dolby Atmos spatial audio support and a noise-canceling microphone.
Researchers and former officials gathered at Queen Mary University of London for a war-game exercise simulating how nations, companies and NGOs would respond to solar radiation modification technologies that could cool the planet by reflecting sunlight. Participants, including climate researcher Colleen Golja, played roles ranging from national governments to indigenous groups and tech firms, testing how a race to deploy such technology might unfold. The exercise revealed that reaching consensus on ethical, science-based deployment proved far harder than expected.
Bill van Zyll, VP and GM of Nintendo Latin America, told YouTuber Coelho no Japao that Nintendo has no plans to drop physical game releases for the Switch 2. He said the company bases its media strategy on consumer preference and noted the console, now about a year old, still supports both digital and physical formats.
Microsoft is forming a new internal group called Xbox Labs, led by Scott (a games executive), tasked with turning emerging AI techniques—like decompiling and rebuilding games for new hardware, porting PC titles to browsers via WebAssembly and WebGPU, and remixing one game's code into another—into experiences for players and developers. The initiative follows recent community experiments that rapidly ported and transformed major titles using AI tools.
A game developer has published a blog post version of a 45-minute talk, 'Your Game Is A Harness,' originally delivered at the Indie Rodeo conference in Calgary on September 12. The post, written entirely without AI assistance, expands on using large language models for sustained, day-to-day game development rather than quick demo projects, drawing on the author's earlier experiment building a moodboarding site called mood.site using early ChatGPT.
According to a Bloomberg report citing unnamed sources, Epic Games has told developers on its delayed Disney shooter to adopt an 'AI first' workflow, with a game director instructing staff to use Anthropic's Claude instead of hand-writing code and to generate art through 'full AI workflows.' Epic's communications director Jake Jones confirmed the company is pursuing 'AI-accelerated' development, and CEO Tim Sweeney posted on X describing a 'huge pivot' toward retooling developers around AI.
Bloomberg reports Epic Games has pushed back the release of an untitled Disney-licensed shooter, originally slated for March 2027, to retool production around AI tools. A game director reportedly told staff there would be 'no more handwritten code' and that art would be generated through 'full AI workflows.' Epic founder Tim Sweeney confirmed a broader company pivot toward AI-accelerated development on X, and communications director Jake Jones said developers remain the 'visionaries' guiding the work.
Walmart is selling the CyberPowerPC Gamer Supreme, built with an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X, Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti, 64GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 4TB SSD, for $2,739.99, down from $4,179.99. That amounts to a $1,440 reduction, roughly 34% off the listed price.
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