What developers can learn from this generation of game criticism
Hour-long video essays analyzing game design are garnering millions of views. What can developers learn and utilize from the format?
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Postal IRCs are Almost a Thing of the Past
Have you ever found out that something you remember from your youth is now gone, and you didn’t even notice? If you are a certain age,...
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Twitch will let parents stop their teens going live
Twitch is giving parents more control over how their children are using the streaming platform, including the ability to block them from broadcasting entirely. Parental controls...
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Google announces Gemini 3.6 Flash and cybersecurity AI, teases 3.5 Pro and Gemini 4
There are new 3.6 and 3.5 models today, but Google is already training Gemini 4.
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Darkest Dungeon is getting its first new bit of DLC in six years, borrowing a couple of classes from its sequel
I'm sure there's plenty enough of you that moved on from the first Darkest Dungeon onto the second one when that launched in 2023, but guess...
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Anthropic’s $1.5 billion book piracy settlement approved by judge
A federal judge has signed off on Anthropic's $1.5 billion class action settlement with authors who accused the company of training its AI models on copyrighted...
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Pushing software engineering limits with “napkin math”
Turbopuffer cofounder Simon Eskildsen on the benefits of longer tenure, using first principles to build durable software – and why founders should be cautious when raising...
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Tom Homan Again Promises That ICE Will Keep Murdering People Until Democrats Stop Calling Them Murderers
Earlier this year “Border Czar” Tom Homan, with an apparently straight face, told the media that if Democrats didn’t stop calling ICE murderers for the murders...
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Block built a Slack for AI agents — and gave each one its own passport
Block on Tuesday launched Buzz, a free, open-source workspace meant to give people and AI agents a Slack-like service for The post Block built a Slack...
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Manor Lords' next beta update adds what all video games are sorely missing: cow breeding
Anyone who knows me knows that the one frustration I come back to in games, above all else, more than yellow paint, quest markers and horrendously...
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