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Early reviews of Gears of War: E-Day highlight strong combat mechanics and multiplayer modes as standout features. However, critics have noted that the single-player campaign suffers from repetitive mission design, tempering overall enthusiasm for the title.
Google has released an AI experiment called Playground that lets users create games by describing ideas, art styles and mechanics in natural language, without writing code. Games are browser-based, support leaderboards and multiplayer for some genres, and can be shared or published to a public gallery. The tool connects to a Play Games account and is currently available only to users aged 18 and over in the US.
Apple Arcade and developer Hipster Whale announced Crossy Road Rush, a new voxel-style arcade adventure launching exclusively on the subscription service November 5 at 4 p.m. PST. The game adds combat and exploration to the familiar Crossy Road aesthetic, offering both solo play and local or online multiplayer racing for up to four players, and is now available for pre-order.
Developer Mitchell Hynes has built a browser-playable version of Halo: Combat Evolved that includes the full single-player campaign and a multiplayer mode supporting up to 128 players. The port maps the original Xbox controller scheme to mouse and keyboard, and early testers say it runs well in Google Chrome, closely matching the original Xbox release. The project follows the recent decompilation of the 2001 game's source code.
Design engineer Hugo Duprez has released Destroy Any Website, a free browser game where a stickman armed with weapons like a shotgun, rocket launcher and flamethrower demolishes any webpage entered by URL. Players use simple keyboard and mouse controls to blow apart text and interface elements until a destruction meter reaches 100%, with a multiplayer mode allowing groups to race toward a kill target. The game, published under Duprez's Sprite Fusion label, also showcases the company's pixel-art generator.
Dolphin, the GameCube and Wii emulator, has extended its networked multiplayer feature to its Android version, matching functionality already available on PC. The emulator continues to support Windows, Linux, macOS and Android 5.0+, running GameCube and Wii titles in HD with enhancements like controller support and turbo speed.
A new tool called Delta has entered public beta, offering a multiplayer workspace where teams write code alongside AI agents and review the results without relying on traditional pull requests. The company behind it says it has already disabled pull requests on its own repository, running all internal collaboration through Delta instead. The tool is available on macOS, Linux, Windows, and via browser, including mobile access to ongoing conversation threads.
An independent developer continues building a free, browser-playable action-RPG multiplayer game using AI-assisted 'vibecoding' techniques, now in its sixth week of public development. The project requires no downloads and lets players jump straight into a persistent shared realm to level characters and complete dungeon runs alongside other online users.
Nintendo released a free update for Mario Kart 8 on Switch 2 that enables local split-screen racing for up to eight players, alongside higher resolutions, faster loading, a slight speed boost, and CameraPlay support. The 12-year-old title has sold roughly 80 million copies and is using the Switch 2's extra power to push far beyond the series' usual four-player split-screen limit.