A Short Hike dev 'sort of' cancels Paper Mario-inspired game, but decides to let everyone play a demo of it anyway: 'I figured maybe sharing the demo is better than nothing'

A Short Hike dev ‘sort of’ cancels Paper Mario-inspired game, but decides to let everyone play a demo of it anyway: ‘I figured maybe sharing the demo is better than nothing’

It’s rare to get a peek at unfinished games, especially ones that aren’t going to be released any time soon. The indie developer behind A Short Hike decided it might be interesting to give people an idea of what that looks like through a demo of a Paper Mario-inspired game they consider to be on…

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Hotel Barcelona: How Two of Japan’s Most Legendary Game Directors Joined Forces

Category: Tokyo Game Show September 25, 2025 Hotel Barcelona: How Two of Japan’s Most Legendary Game Directors Joined Forces Sarah MannBrand Director, Cult Games Summary Hotel Barcelona launches tomorrow, September 26, 2025, for Xbox Series X|S and Xbox on PC. The game is a bold collaboration between Hidetaka “Swery” Suehiro (Deadly Premonition) and Goichi “Suda51”…

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Elon Musk has been snapping up ex-Nvidia specialists to help make AI world models, which is fine but please keep away from our games

If there’s one kind of AI that’s most relevant to gaming, it would be the so-called ‘world model.’ This is a system that can learn to simulate real-world things, which might allow for ‘easy’ creation of realistic games. And that seems to have been on Elon Musk’s mind, as his xAI has been hiring Nvidia…

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