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Mirage: First AI-Native UGC Game Engine Powered by Real-Time World Model

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-29 09:47:42

The future of gaming isn't built level by level by expert designers—it's imagined, generated, and played by anyone, in real time. Meet Mirage: the world's first real-time generative engine enabling live UGC gameplay through state-of-the-art AI World Models. Built to support dynamic, interactive, and sustained gameplay, it enables entire worlds to be generated and modified live—through natural language, keyboard, or controller input. Mirage supports various genres, and today we are releasing tw

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Lessons from creating my first text adventure

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-27 22:48:19

It’s very easy to accidentally try to create too large a text adventure. My first attempt was way too ambitious, and would have taken months to finish. I still love the idea for that, but it had to go. I picked another idea that was much smaller in scope, but it, too, grew too ambitious. I restarted one more time, from an idea that was even more pared down, and I was actually able to finish that game. With the minimalistic scope it took maybe fifteen hours of active work to create most of the ga

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Two and a Half Years in GameDev

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-30 03:31:51

About 3 years ago, I joined a GameDev company, without any prior experience making games or hands-on exposure to this industry. Statistically, this time is not even enough’s to release a single game. But during that window, I was lucky to meet many talented people deeply involved in modern GameDev, who shared with me their career journeys, war tales, and anecdotes, and helped me shape my vision. One unexpected outcome of this switch was that many friends and former colleagues reached out to me

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GameStop Might've Sold Your Purchase Data to Facebook: How to Claim a Piece of the Settlement

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-30 00:00:00

There's still time to claim part of GameStop privacy settlement. Have you bought something from video game retailer GameStop in the past five years? Did you have a Facebook account when you did so? According to an email I received awhile back, that includes me. If it includes you as well, you can claim your own piece of a brewing settlement from the company, and you've still got a few weeks to do so. Last month, GameStop agreed to pay $4.5 million to settle a class action lawsuit accusing it o

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Watch TikTok Sensations Savannah Bananas Free on Your Roku Screen

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-30 00:00:05

There's a chance your TikTok feed has slipped in a few clips of the Savannah Bananas, an exhibition baseball team whose antics and gameplay style may remind you of the Harlem Globetrotters. In a league of their own, -- they play Banana Ball and no longer belong to other leagues -- the team can be seen dancing, singing and throwing curveballs on social media and your TV screen. This weekend, you can stream a game for free on the Roku Channel. If coordinated choreography for songs like the Cupid

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How to watch Summer Games Done Quick 2025

theverge.com Ash Parrish 2025-08-30 06:00:00

Grab your grill, your hot dogs, and your sparklers because it’s time to celebrate… Summer Games Done Quick 2025. The annual speedrunning charity marathon benefitting Doctors without Borders is back starting July 6th and finishes July 12th. Here’s how and most importantly what to watch as you enjoy the reason for the speedrunning season. Summer Games Done Quick 2025 starts on Sunday July 6th at 1:30 PM ET on Twitch. Games Done Quick’s YouTube channel will have VODs up typically within a few shor

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Xbox's sci-fi looter-shooter Blackbird was scrapped even after leaving execs 'blown away'

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-30 00:13:05

Xbox was well on its way to delivering a sci-fi stylized game with plenty of exciting movement mechanics before an abrupt change of heart. The upcoming third-person shooter RPG codenamed Blackbird from ZeniMax Online Studios, which developed The Elder Scrolls Online, has been "shelved indefinitely," according to an exclusive report from Bloomberg. The report added that Xbox execs were "blown away" by the game and had "nothing but complimentary words," according to Bloomberg's sources. The excit

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So Long, ‘Anthem,’ See Ya In the Skies

gizmodo.com Justin Carter 2025-08-29 23:50:55

In February 2019, Dragon Age and Mass Effect developer BioWare released Anthem, a third-person shooter about human Freelancers donning armored Javelin suits to fight monsters and various factions. After seven years, EA is permanently taking the live-service game down on January 12, 2026, and with it, a chapter in the studio’s modern era is forever gone. To know Anthem is to know its tumultuous life; the game famously suffered from crunch and internal struggles owing to BioWare’s knowledge of se

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These are the 15 best open source Android games you need to download

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-08-29 23:00:40

Andy Walker / Android Authority I’ve previously detailed a list of open source Android apps I always install on my phones, old or new. While all those apps add utility to my handsets, few of them provide pure entertainment. That’s where open source Android games come into play. Open source games might seem counterintuitive, but their transparency and alterability are part of their allure. They allow users to view their source code up and down or enjoy it as they are. Some have even spawned mod

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How to Share Games on Nintendo Switch 2 (Spoiler: It's Easier Than You Think)

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-08-29 22:00:04

If your household has more than one Nintendo Switch 2, you don't have to purchase the same game again and again for every console. Instead, Nintendo offers two ways to share a single copy of a game you've purchased between multiple Switch 2s, using a new feature called Virtual Game Cards. I'll walk you through both. Before we get started however, you may have heard of a feature called GameShare, which is also found on the bottom row of the home screen. I'm not talking about GameShare here. Con

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Deltarune is halfway done, but it feels like a full game

theverge.com Jay Peters 2025-08-29 23:00:00

is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. It’s been an agonizing wait for more Deltarune. The first chapter of the episodic, parallel story to Toby Fox’s acclaimed RPG Undertale came out nearly seven years ago. But the newly released third and fourth chapters are so good that I highly recommend playing everything that’s available right now — even if there are still three more episodes to go. In Deltarune, you play as

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Supergiant’s latest Hades II patch is likely its last before launch

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-30 21:00:05

Despite it having upward of 61,000 reviews on Steam, Hades II isn’t actually out yet. The sequel to Supergiant Games’ hugely successful roguelite dungeon crawler has been in early access on PC for over a year, and even the early builds were extremely polished and content-rich for what is still a work-in-progress game. But we (and Switch owners) have been waiting patiently for that 1.0 release date, and it looks like it might be just around the corner, with Supergiant confirming that the latest U

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EverQuest

news.ycombinator.com Jimmy Maher 2025-08-31 04:10:13

This article tells part of the story of MMORPGs. It isn’t always or even usually the pioneers who reap the rewards of the trails they blaze. As often as not, some pragmatic Johnny-come-lately pops in to make off with the booty. Such was the case in the MMORPG space in the late 1990s. There Ultima Online demonstrated that there was an audience for a persistent fantasy world where people could live out alternative existences together through the magic of the Internet. Yet it was another game cal

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Resident Evil is getting a new mobile spin-off game

engadget.com Unknown 2025-08-31 09:00:44

Less than a month after Capcom’s surprise announcement of the next Resident Evil game, another new entry has been confirmed. But before Resi fans get too wild with excitement, this one is a mobile spin-off for iOS and Android called Resident Evil Survival Unit. It’s a strategy game that somehow fits into the broader universe, even if it’s not clear how at this point. We don’t have a lot of concrete information at the moment, with the game set to be fully revealed in a showcase scheduled July 10

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Rocket Scientists Hooked Up ChatGPT to the Controls of a Spaceship, and the Results Were Not What You Might Expect

futurism.com Unknown 2025-08-31 11:45:46

AI Kirk Despite being stumped by simple children's games and uncontrollably hallucinating, AI models could perform surprisingly well when put in charge of navigating space inside a simulated spacecraft, researchers have found. As Live Science reports, a team of scientists from MIT and the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain, instructed OpenAI's blockbuster AI chatbot ChatGPT to "operate as an autonomous agent controlling a pursuit spacecraft." To their amazement, as detailed in a paper s

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Laid-off workers should use AI to manage their emotions, says Xbox exec

theverge.com Jess Weatherbed 2025-08-31 13:23:04

“These are really challenging times, and if you’re navigating a layoff or even quietly preparing for one, you’re not alone and you don’t have to go it alone. I know these types of tools engender strong feelings in people, but I’d be remiss in not trying to offer the best advice I can under the circumstances. I’ve been experimenting with ways to use LLM Al tools (like ChatGPT or Copilot) to help reduce the emotional and cognitive load that comes with job loss. Here are some prompt ideas and use

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Show HN: I AI-coded a tower defense game and documented the whole process

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-31 15:34:49

Tower of Time Entry for Beginner's Jam Summer 2025 A time-traveling tower defense game where you defend your base against waves of enemies using the power to rewind time. 🎮 Play the game at https://m4v3k.itch.io/tower-of-time About the game Tower of Time is a unique tower defense game that combines strategic building with time manipulation mechanics. When enemies overwhelm your defenses, use your time-travel powers to rewind and rebuild your strategy. The game features multiple tower types,

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Show HN: I AI coded a tower defense game and documented the whole process

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-08-31 20:34:49

Tower of Time Entry for Beginner's Jam Summer 2025 A time-traveling tower defense game where you defend your base against waves of enemies using the power to rewind time. 🎮 Play the game at https://m4v3k.itch.io/tower-of-time About the game Tower of Time is a unique tower defense game that combines strategic building with time manipulation mechanics. When enemies overwhelm your defenses, use your time-travel powers to rewind and rebuild your strategy. The game features multiple tower types,

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‘Death Stranding 2: On the Beach’ Composer Had Free Rein to Make a Headbanging Soundtrack

gizmodo.com Isaiah Colbert 2025-09-01 16:45:04

Hideo Kojima‘s long-anticipated sequel Death Stranding 2: On the Beach is out now on PlayStation 5. While the game itself poses the question of whether the world should be connected, gamers on social media are coming to life with every neat gameplay secret and discovery they unearth in every nook and cranny of the game. Speaking of connections, io9 spoke with On the Beach composer Ludvig Forssell, whose credits include Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain as well as Mamoru Hosoda‘s 2022 animate

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Angry Birds Bounce and three more games just dropped on Apple Arcade

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-09-02 04:11:32

As promised last month, Apple Arcade has just added four new titles to its growing subscription-based collection of ad-free games. Here’s the full list Angry Birds Bounce is the star of this month’s drop, adding a twist to its iconic slingshot gameplay: rather than simply flinging birds at towers, there’s now an arcade-style brick-breaker mechanic for a faster-paced, combo-heavy experience. But today’s update also brings a few other familiar names that might excite gamers of all ages. Here’s t

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Anthem is officially shutting down on January 12

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-02 09:52:36

EA says there were no layoffs associated with this decision. EA's beleaguered online shooter Anthem is shutting down for good on January 12, 2026 . The game will be removed from the company's storefront ahead of that on August 15. It'll be available for download after that date so long as it's already in your library. Some aspects of the game have already begun winding down. Players can no longer purchase premium in-game currency as of today, though they can still use existing balances to buy

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Xbox was funding Romero Games' new game, but layoffs have left the project in crisis

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-02 13:22:35

Microsoft was rocked by more than 9,000 job cuts this week. A significant number have come from its gaming division, resulting in the closure of multiple game studios and the cancellation of numerous in-development projects at Xbox and its contracted studios. We’ve already learned that Microsoft has closed the studio that was developing the much-anticipated Perfect Dark reboot, and Rare’s Everwild has also been sunsetted. And now Romero Games — the studio headed up by Doom creator and veteran de

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Helldivers 2 is coming to Xbox on August 26

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-02 13:29:37

Sony Interactive's Helldivers 2, the third-person co-op shooter developed by Arrowhead Game Studios, is finally coming to Xbox on August 26. The sequel to the 2015 top-down shooter was released for PlayStation 5 and Windows in early 2024 and supports cross-platform play. After launch, Helldivers 2 was a huge success, selling over 15 million copies and reaching 450,000 concurrent players on Steam, the highest number ever among PlayStation games released for the PC. In fact, there were so many pl

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The Last of Us co-creator Neil Druckmann exits HBO show

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-09-02 13:11:14

Two key writers of HBO's series The Last of Us are moving on, according to announcements on Instagram yesterday. Neil Druckmann, co-creator of the franchise, and Halley Gross, co-writer of The Last of Us Part 2 and frequent writer on the show, are both leaving before work begins on season 3. Both were credited as executive producers on the show; Druckmann frequently contributed writing to episodes, as did Gross, and Druckmann also directed. Druckmann and Gross co-wrote the second game, The Last

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Samsung 990 EVO Plus SSD 4TB Is Cheaper Than Black Friday Thanks to 4th of July and Early Prime Day

gizmodo.com Jason Coles 2025-09-02 17:10:56

Are you sick of having to delete games and videos to make space for more games and videos? We know it’s not a big deal in the scheme of things, but perspective doesn’t make it any less irritating when you’re forced to figure out what has to be uninstalled this time. The easiest answer to this is just to get more storage, and we’ve got a truly impeccable deal on that front today. See at Amazon While a lot of storage can normally be very expensive, this amazing deal from Amazon means you can add

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A Game Called 'Date Everything' Literally Lets You Date Everything—Except People

wired.com Megan Farokhmanesh 2025-09-02 17:45:13

Lux, a catty, bottle blonde personification of my house lights, has just informed me we’re dating—as long as I can follow a few rules. The influencer, whose head is haloed by a ring light, has a few notable ones: I need to take them out to the most chic restaurants for every meal. Sex only when they want to film for their “Fans Only” account. The relationship ends when they find someone “richer or more famous.” Agree, and their brittle love is mine. I want to unplug all my lamps and throw them

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PlayStation needs Neil Druckmann more than HBO does

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-02 21:49:51

I really wanted to love season two of HBO’s The Last of Us. For the most part, I did — but it was also impossible to ignore the online masses saying that showrunners Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann had lost the thread in season two. Some of that comes from creative choices the pair made in adapting the first half of the PlayStation game The Last of Us Part II to TV; it’s a story with a sprawling plot that asks a lot of the player and, as it turns out, even more of a passive audience. The season t

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EA's next Battlefield game may be in trouble and over budget

engadget.com Unknown 2025-09-03 05:00:46

EA's next Battlefield game is supposedly arriving sometime in spring 2026, but its development is reportedly fraught with issues, leading some of its developers to worry that certain parts of the game won't be well-received. According to a lengthy Ars Technica piece about the game's development troubles and problems facing AAA titles' development as a whole, EA had lofty goals for the next Battlefield (codenamed Glacier) to the point that team members working on the project think they're near un

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Microsoft Layoffs Are Here and These 3 Games Have Already Been Canceled

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-09-03 04:00:00

Microsoft is moving ahead with mass layoffs, cutting a little less than 4% of its workforce or about 9,000 roles across the company. As a result, multiple games brewing within Xbox Game Studios were canceled, including some fairly high-profile projects. When reached for comment, Microsoft directed CNET to reports Wednesday by Variety, confirming their accuracy. "To position Gaming for enduring success and allow us to focus on strategic growth areas, we will end or decrease work in certain area

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Lego’s latest buildable arcade machine is packed full of fun hidden details

theverge.com Andrew Liszewski 2025-09-03 05:27:14

is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets and tech since 2006, but has loved all things electronic since he was a kid. At 468-pieces it’s no where near as elaborate as Lego’s buildable Pac-Man machine, but this 6-inch tall Arcade Machine set will only set you back $39.99 when it launches on August 1st, 2025. At this scale Lego wasn’t able to make this arcade machine playable like Pac-Man is, but it still managed to include some fun details. On the outside the ma

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Show HN: I AI-coded a tower defense game and documented the whole process

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