The World Model Revolution: How Yoroll.ai is Building the First Engine-less Game Platform

The primary hurdle for AI-generated games has always been "hallucination"—the tendency for AI to lose track of objects or logic over time. To solve this, Yoroll.ai has pioneered a Three-Layer ...
Rock Paper Shotgun

The Pale Piper is Silksong with no combat, a wondrous Playdead-style world, and all the hope bleached out

In this new precision platformer, you are a wraith exploring a metroidvania labyrinth of crumbling traps and red-eyed ...

Anime action RPG studio Pahdo Labs shuts down despite accruing $17.5M in funding: 'We believed making a demo of a familiar but new game would be our best shot'

Despite a demo that did well during Steam Next Fest, the anime action RPG underperformed at launch. Pahdo Labs laid off half its team, halted updates, and said it was going "back to the drawing board" ...
Polygon

Racing games are making a comeback in 2026

It would be inaccurate to say that the racing game genre has been in a total slump over the last few years. After all, Mario Kart World was one of the best-selling games of 2025 — as was the ...
FOX 10 Phoenix

ASU's 'The GAME School' teaching students to build business out of gaming

ASU’s "The GAME School" is training students in a multidisciplinary curriculum that combines art, graphics, and engineering for the global gaming industry. The program prepares students for ...
The Escapist

Scrabdackle interview: “For me, the most rewarding part of making this game is sharing it.”

Developing a video game is never easy; regardless of whether you’re a small independent studio or a AAA publisher, the process is arduous, though also rewarding. But imagine being a solo developer ...
Ars Technica

Riot Games is making an anti-cheat change that could be rough on older PCs

At this point, most competitive online multiplayer games on the PC come with some kind of kernel-level anti-cheat software. As we’ve written before, this is software that runs with more elevated ...
Wired

The Avatar Game Is So Good, They Don’t Need to Make the Movies Anymore

The Avatar video game is better than the movies. I say this as someone who has dumbly adored James Cameron’s Avatar movies for a long time. The original 2009 film was my first ever midnight premiere, ...
The Denver Post

NHL’s rash of overtime games needs a solution: Three-point games

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The NHL loves the parity in the league, but too much of it can make a parody of the standings. There has been a rash of games going beyond the allotted 60 ...
USA Today

Army-Navy Game uniforms a secret, yearslong process to make: 'There's a lot of hiding'

The special uniforms for the Army-Navy Game are a tradition that involves years of planning and research. Each academy works with its apparel company to create intricate designs that honor military ...
PCGamesN

Ten years in the making, Jonathan Blow's new game breaks all the rules of gaming's greatest puzzle

It's not every day that Jonathan Blow releases a new game. It's more accurate to call it a once-in-a-decade event, but for those who follow Blow's work, the next project in the pipeline is a somewhat ...
PC Gamer

Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert isn't interested in returning to making 2D adventure games: 'When we're all dead, it probably won't be the kind of thing that survives'

But he would consider making another 3D Monkey Island. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert isn't ...