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Epic Games has pushed back the timeline for a project tied to Disney and directed its developers to increase their use of artificial intelligence tools in development work. No specific new release date or details about the AI tools involved were disclosed.
A new project called Brickbrag has launched on Show HN, offering a browser-based multiplayer world built from bricks. Users can chat with other real players, send gifts of coins and bricks, race friends, or simply hang out and watch the town's activity, with an NPC bus driver as the only non-player character mentioned.
Epic Games has told staff to shift to an 'AI first' workflow for its delayed Disney project featuring Marvel and Star Wars characters, according to Bloomberg. The game had been expected to launch in March, but Epic reportedly underestimated the staffing needed after cutting 1,000 jobs earlier this year. Epic confirmed it is moving to 'AI-accelerated development' with no more hand-written code, replacing it with full AI workflows.
Researchers at Queen Mary University of London ran a tabletop exercise last September simulating how nations, NGOs, indigenous groups and companies would respond to emerging solar radiation modification technologies. Participants, including roles for governments and tech firms, struggled to agree on ethical guardrails for deploying methods such as spraying reflective particles into the atmosphere to cool the planet. Climate researcher Colleen Golja, who advised players on the science, said she expected easy agreement on ethical research but instead encountered sharp disagreement.
Wizards of the Coast has revealed 'Darkhold Destiny,' another Magic: The Gathering set built around Marvel characters and lore. The announcement continues the game's ongoing series of licensed crossovers that blend Marvel properties into Magic's card mechanics and storylines.
A new tool called REA (Reverse Engineer Anything) was shown inspecting a running browser game via a local debugging connection, extracting its index.js source and settings. It found the game starts at speed 6, accelerates by 0.001 per update, and caps at a max speed of 13, then rebuilt that rule in a small teaching version with an adjustable speed slider.
The Onion has launched its first video game, a satirical title centered on the act of voting. Players can navigate obstacles like poll watchers by double-jumping to cast a ballot, or choose an alternate path of staying home instead of voting.
Bevy, the open-source Rust game engine, has released version 0.20 on crates.io, built with contributions from 227 developers across 817 pull requests. The update improves Solari, Bevy's realtime pathtracing renderer, adding speed and accuracy gains plus macOS support via Metal, alongside syntax changes to its BSN scene system and new widgets for the Bevy Feathers UI toolkit. A migration guide is available for developers updating existing apps from version 0.19.
A source identified only as Cyberleek has released a 25-minute gameplay video from Grand Theft Auto VI containing significant story spoilers, as reported by Kotaku. The footage, which also promotes the leaker's memecoin, shows co-protagonist Jason fully nude and appears to suggest the game may be playable in that state. Rockstar has not commented, and the game remains on track for its November 19 release.
Rockstar Games announced that Grand Theft Auto VI will include at least six in-game radio stations—Cocoteo FM, Back Country Radio, AfroBank FM, The Chamber 106.6, Flash FM, and Dirty South Classics—spanning genres from talk radio to classic rock. The company also confirmed the series' first-ever on-demand podcasts, which players can listen to while moving through the game's fictional Florida setting, Leonida. The game is available for preorder and is set to launch November 19th.
BJ, an independent builder, has created the Retro Song Bird, a device resembling a Game Boy cartridge reader that plays only the music and sound effects stored on Game Boy cartridges rather than the games themselves. It includes a built-in speaker, stereo line-out for external audio equipment, and USB audio streaming of each of the Game Boy's four sound channels, plus the ability to back up ROMs, save data, and export music as WAV files. Only a handful of prototypes exist currently, and the device is not yet for sale.
OpenAI has published a large set of new results on mathematical problem-solving benchmarks, adding to the growing body of data on AI capabilities in this area. The release includes hundreds of new test outcomes, highlighting progress and ongoing challenges in AI understanding of complex math tasks.