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Valve released the 50 most-played Steam Next Fest demos, highlighting casual co-op and incremental games while noting minimal AI use and limited blockbuster publisher entries.
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, praised for its writing and combat, underperformed commercially despite strong reviews and a unique narrative approach.
Unity outlines 10 essential considerations for first-time game developers, emphasizing core gameplay, scope, visuals, and player feedback to avoid common pitfalls.
Frame rate, measured in frames per second, determines how smoothly a game appears to move by dictating how often new images are drawn and displayed. Common targets like 30, 60, or 120 fps balance smoothness against the...
Game developers use structured rules and sensory cues to make enemy AI in video games feel responsive and fair, from simple guards to multi-phase bosses.
A Unity guide explains how video game terrain is built using tiles, heightmaps, voxels, and noise, and how designers shape land to guide player movement and experience.
Game designers are advised to begin with the emotional experience they want players to feel, using that as the foundation for all design choices, including mechanics and aesthetics.
Vercel reduced Agent session costs by 67% through token efficiency improvements in context management and prompt caching, now live without user action.
Vercel now allows deploying a standalone Dockerfile or Containerfile without framework detection, routing traffic directly to the built image via the Container runtime in beta.
Databricks introduces Lakeflow Connect to unify scattered productivity and AI data into a single governed foundation, enabling AI agents with enterprise context via native connectors.
The Chancellor announced five cost-of-living measures including higher mileage rates, Warm Homes loans, and reforms to Carer’s Allowance to ease household pressures ahead of the Budget.
Cloudflare corrected a tenant isolation flaw in its GLM-5.3 Workers AI model that briefly exposed data from other users' sessions in responses to long prompts between August 27 and September 9, 2026.
The dark fantasy RPG Emberville, blending farming and dungeon crawling, delayed its Early Access launch from October 27 to January 7, 2027, citing needed improvements to bow combat and polish.
Netflix released a new choreography video for Huntr/x’s 'How It's Done' from KPop Demon Hunters, teasing more dance routines and behind-the-scenes content this week.
Actor Walter Koenig, best known as Star Trek’s Pavel Chekhov, has died at 90, Variety reports.
The UK reaffirms its commitment to assisting Iraq, Kuwait, and the Tripartite Commission in resolving the fate of missing persons and property, emphasizing humanitarian efforts and sustained cooperation.
Google Cloud introduces Universal Ledger to help banks issue tokenized deposits, enabling real-time payments without disrupting core systems or stablecoin risks.
Vercel’s CLI now lets users browse and search over 1,000 services in Vercel Connect directly from the terminal, with filtering and JSON output options.
Databricks launched a perpetually free platform edition for educators and students to teach data and AI skills using real industry tools without cost or setup barriers.
A Puerto Rican apartment complex in Bayamón installed three independent solar-plus-battery systems to ensure reliable power amid frequent grid outages, eliminating the need for generators.
Sucker Punch Productions, developer of Ghost of Yōtei, has laid off 24 staff members amid market challenges and project planning, despite the game's strong sales and critical acclaim.
Scale AI’s AgentEnv evaluation framework now integrates with Vercel Sandbox, enabling separate sandboxed execution of agents and tasks for improved testing and scoring.
Netflix proposed a $500 million deal to adapt Xbox’s game properties, but Xbox sought $800 million and negotiations collapsed, leaving adaptations in flux.
Apple’s reimagined Siri AI, powered by Apple Intelligence, expands to five new languages today, adding French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish to its conversational and personal capabilities.
Microsoft details how AI agents are transforming large-scale codebases like Windows and Azure, shifting verification from manual review to automated formal methods to ensure trustworthy transformations.
A new Microsoft-backed book examines how AI is reshaping education and work, warning that uneven global access risks deepening divides unless systems adapt responsibly.
Databricks AI Search now directly integrates Streaming Tables, Materialized Views, and Iceberg v3+ tables, eliminating separate pipelines for live data synchronization in AI applications.
An entomologist used Microsoft’s Discovery app to adapt an AI-driven insect monitoring system to track the Asian citrus psyllid, a pest spreading a devastating citrus disease, compressing weeks of research into days.
Defence ministers from France, Germany, Italy, Poland and the UK reaffirm Russia as the primary threat to Euro-Atlantic security and outline plans to strengthen NATO through coordinated military and industrial efforts.
VisionQuest’s Jocasta is revealed as the Butcherbird Killer, a vengeful AI seeking revenge on Markridge Biotech’s former board members for selling the company to Stark Industries.