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Meta launches Pocket, an app for making games with generative AI
Meta has released Pocket, a Google Play Store app that lets users create and share small interactive games and mini-programs using generative AI, simply by describing what they want in a prompt. The launch matters because it signals a strategic pivot at Meta towards AI-generated content and away from the traditional, human-made virtual reality games…
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This free software aims to turn Sony headphones into a head tracker for ‘200+ PC games’
Your audio device may have just gotten much more useful.
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Dustpile is a Steam dating app that will help clear your backlog
A developer known online as tolgatr0n, from Dumbbell Games, has created Dustpile, a web tool that applies a Tinder-style swiping interface to a user’s Steam library to help them decide which game from their backlog to play next. It matters because unplayed gaming backlogs are a common frustration, and Dustpile offers a low-effort, playful way…
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Quentin Tarantino’s Final Movie Gets Major Production Update After 7 Year Delay
Cinematographer Robert Richardson has revealed that Quentin Tarantino intends to make his tenth and final feature film after finishing a play he is currently writing for a London stage. The update matters because Tarantino has not directed since 2019’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and has long vowed to retire from directing after ten…
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The Mound: Omens of Cthulhu revives Left 4 Dead formula from Zeno Clash creators
Rock Paper Shotgun previews The Mound: Omen of Cthulhu, a Lovecraftian extraction game from Chilean studio Ace Team, the developers behind Zeno Clash, The Eternal Cylinder and Clash: Artefacts of Chaos. Set in the 17th century, it casts four crucifix-wielding, musket-armed Spanish explorers who venture into a monster-filled jungle in search of loot, with the…
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Doom developer id Software reportedly cut in half after Xbox layoffs
Following Microsoft’s announcement that it is cutting 3,200 jobs across Xbox, the legendary studio id Software — the developer behind Doom, Wolfenstein, Quake and Rage — has reportedly seen roughly half of its workforce laid off. Multiple anonymous sources told Game Developer that over 90 of its approximately 200 staff were let go, with concerns…
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Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader gets major Switch 2 patch with all DLC now free
Owlcat Games is rolling out a “massive update” for the Nintendo Switch 2 port of Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader, following a launch that was widely panned earlier in the year — Nintendo Life had described the port as a “borderline disaster” and one of the console’s worst titles. The patch, revealed exclusively to Nintendo Life…
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Chemistry Ventures seeks $500m for its oversubscribed second startup fund
Chemistry Ventures, a venture capital firm founded two years ago by alumni of Bessemer, Index Ventures, and Andreessen Horowitz, is raising $500 million for its second fund, according to an SEC filing. The move matters as a signal of continued investor appetite for early-stage technology startups, with the firm significantly increasing its firepower from the…
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Waterdeep-set Project Fantasy to continue as IO Interactive shuts Istanbul studio
IO Interactive, the studio behind the Hitman series, has confirmed it will continue developing its fantasy RPG, Project Fantasy, independently after Xbox withdrew its financial backing. The move matters because it keeps a major project alive and preserves IOI’s status as one of the few fully independent AAA developers and publishers, but it has come…