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In recent months, the US Department of Homeland Security has issued hundreds of administrative subpoenas to Google, Reddit, Discord, and Meta to obtain the identifying information of individuals behind accounts that track or criticize Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations, according to New York Times reporting. According to four federal officials and tech industry workers who…

Just a couple weeks after Google seemingly spooked game company investors with its AI-powered “world model” Project Genie, engine maker Unity says it’s chasing the same digital dragon, and that “AI-driven authoring” will be one of its major focuses in 2026. “At the Game Developer Conference in March, we’ll be unveiling the beta of the…

That sure didn’t take long: Just one week after release, the bizarre cat-breeding simulator Mewgenics has surpassed one million copies sold. Word of the major milestone came from Mewgenics co-creator Tyler Glaiel on X, who posted a simple, to-the-point message that was apparently created by fan artist Whom: (Image credit: Tyler Glaiel (Twitter)) The message…

Open-source software development—the open, collaborative contribution of knowledge in the name of problem solving, bug fixing, feature development, and ongoing support—is a borderline utopian idea. But the advent of generative LLMs has forced the maintainers of projects like open-source game engine Godot to face a deluge of AI-generated code from would-be contributors who might not…

Nobody on the team making Fellowship would deny that World of Warcraft was a massive inspiration for the game—I know, because I’ve asked them about it. It’s not just the art style, but the entire pitch for the game is what would happen if a popular activity in WoW was an entire game. What impresses…

Masters of Albion is not only Peter Molyneux’s final game (so he says, anyway), it’s also a sort of getting-the-band-back-together moment with collaborators from the early days at Lionhead. All of which is apparently rather nerve-wracking: In an interview with The Game Business, Molyneux describes the team as “incredibly inexperienced,” and warned that there will…

Max Payne and Alan Wake developer Remedy Entertainment has spent most of its life making third-person shooters. Its 2019 hit Control, which gave you some telekinetic powers but also a transforming pistol, mostly stuck to that format—while also proving that the third-person shooting really isn’t why anyone’s playing Remedy games. We play them for the…

Bethesda worthies have recently been on the interview circuit, reminiscing about all the good times when the studio was making Fallout games (note: it has been 11 years since a singleplayer Fallout game, and eight since the release of Fallout 76). Game Informer’s excellent oral history of Fallout is one of the best, not least…

They say comparison is the thief of joy—but I bet you anything ‘they’ just haven’t seen a really nicely laid out comparison website. Case in point is EloShapes.com, a website for comparing mice and mousepads in terms of pricing, features, and—you guessed it—shapes. It’s not always easy to get the best sense of hand-feel before…

Hytale‘s rapid development push to launch earlier in January this year, mere months after finally regaining control of the project, inevitably left many things on the cutting room floor in the early access debut. Areas were boarded up with WIP signs, magic was absent, and, much to my surprise, farming was almost non-existent too. Coming…