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Newegg is offering the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D at $429, down from its $469 retail price, with an additional $40 discount using a promo code. The deal includes a free MSI MAG CoreLiquid A13 240 Black AIO cooler valued at $70 and the game Onimusha: Way of the Sword, also worth $70. This package provides a combined value of approximately $210 more than the CPU's original launch price.
Capcom announced plans to incorporate artificial intelligence tools to reduce the time required for creating new titles, aiming to streamline development without replacing human developers. This move follows the lengthy six-year development cycle of Resident Evil Requiem, which has sold over 8.5 million copies and generated more than $500 million in revenue this year.
Recent efforts in reverse-engineering classic video games have led to unofficial ports and modifications, allowing titles like Halo and The Legend of Zelda to run on web browsers or non-original hardware. These projects often involve AI assistance and operate in legal gray areas, raising questions about copyright and ethics.
As Googlebook laptops go on sale, Google has added new support documentation explaining features unique to the Android-based devices. The pages detail the RGB Glowbar strip's various lighting states—covering usage, charging, battery level, and Gemini interactions—as well as Game Controls, which lets users map physical keys to on-screen touchscreen controls for Android games.
Developer AICodeWith released a free, browser-based open-world game called Taipei GTA, built using AI coding tools and reportedly costing around $10,000 in tokens to create. According to Taiwanese TV reports, the game amassed 1.2 million concurrent players within three days of launch, with no official press release accompanying its release. The game recreates Taipei landmarks like Ximending and Taipei Main Station and runs on the Vercel cloud platform.
The Video Game History Foundation announced its digital archive now holds more than 5000 out-of-print magazines, up from the 1500-plus it launched with roughly a year and a half ago. The collection spans 1981 to 2026, totals nearly 600,000 pages, and was built with scans from community archiving groups, industry alumni, and individual contributors.
A gaming writer continues a critique of city-builder aesthetics, focusing specifically on Cities: Skylines 2's flat, overly clean surfaces where sidewalks, buildings, and grass meet without natural transitions. The author contrasts in-game screenshots with more organic real-world or modded examples, arguing the base game looks lifeless without extensive manual decoration.
A developer named Roady has launched a Show HN project described as a Factorio-like game where in-game components can be unreliable, requiring players to build networks to verify trustworthy information. The creator says the game uses AI-assisted coding and frames the mechanic as a metaphor for determining who or what to trust amid conflicting claims.
Realme has released a Harry Potter-themed version of its 16 Pro 5G phone, made in collaboration with Warner Bros. The special edition keeps the standard model's core hardware but adds Hogwarts-inspired exterior styling, a trunk-shaped box, a themed phone case, SIM-ejector tool, postcards, a Hogwarts acceptance letter, bookmarks and other collectible extras.
A co-founder of Kingdom Come: Deliverance developer Warhorse Studios has publicly said he hopes Grand Theft Auto 6's pricing will lead to higher game prices across the industry. The comment was made amid ongoing debate over rising AAA game costs and development budgets.
A new survey reports that a growing share of American sports fans now favor celebrating game day at home rather than tailgating at stadiums. Respondents cited comfort as the leading reason for the shift away from the traditional pregame ritual.
By the early 2000s LEGO had diversified into theme parks, an in-house game studio, clothing and TV content, and by 2003 it had lost nearly a third of its revenue in one year, reportedly coming within about 18 months of running out of cash. New CEO Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, appointed in 2004, didn't scrap those ventures but restructured how LEGO ran them: selling majority ownership of its theme parks to Merlin Entertainments while retaining licensing rights, and closing its internal game studio in favor of licensing deals with outside developers, which produced titles like Lego Star Wars and Lego Batman.