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How to Make Your First AI Game Play Smoothly on Mobile

First game feels laggy on phones. Fix it with touch-friendly controls, optimized layout, better performance, and feedback for smooth mobile play ...

A Petri Dish Of Human Brain Neurons Just Learned How To Play Doom

In a wild experiment, it turns out a few human neurons linked up to some custom silicon can actually play Doom.
Foreign Policy

Bored by Biathlon? The Winter Games Need Ping-Pong.

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GamesRadar+

Devs failing to make games with AI won't stop flooding the Godot game engine with slop requests, and its project manager has had enough: "Does the 'author' understand the code ...

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Engadget

The creators of Mixtape want to make a great hangout video game

For most adventure games, the long-term goal can often focus on solving a grand mystery or chasing a lost artifact of the past. But for the upcoming Mixtape, from publisher Annapurna Interactive, it ...
The New York Times

Your Brain on Ping Pong, Ilia Malinin’s Dominance and Saving the N.B.A. All Star Game

Produced by Maggie BurbankJessie BurtonCraig CustanceStephen Lorenzo and Andrew Liu Senior Writer for The Athletic, Rustin Dodd, and world-class coach Matt Hetherington stop by to explain why table ...
GamesRadar+

Pokemon devs "wanted to create a different type of game that's not an RPG" with cozy life sim Pokopia, but that whole idea "was a challenge"

After Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, Pokopia senior director Shigeru Ohmori wanted to "create a different type of game than usual" When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...
The Washington Post

The video game that started it all

Playing "Pong" during the Midwest Gaming Classic trade show at the Baird Center in Milwaukee in 2024. (Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images) The ceiling of the lobby in One Liberty Plaza in New York’s ...
Wall Street Journal

Key Moments in the History of Videogames (and No, ‘Pong’ Wasn’t First)

“USA250: The Story of the World’s Greatest Economy” is a yearlong WSJ series examining America’s first 250 years. Read more about it from Editor in Chief Emma Tucker. To many people, videogames are a ...