Microsoft

Contagious Interview: Malware delivered through fake developer job interviews

The Contagious Interview campaign weaponizes job recruitment to target developers. Threat actors pose as recruiters from crypto and AI companies and deliver backdoors such as OtterCookie and ...
GameSpot

Xbox Project Helix Gets Key Updates, Including When Devs Will Get The System

Today at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Microsoft held a panel discussion during which Xbox next-gen VP Jason Ronald shared new insight into the company's plans for the future of the ...
Ars Technica

Google Play Games for PC is getting more premium titles and cross-buy with Android

Google has been tinkering with porting its Play Games platform to Windows for several years, but it started getting serious about it last year. Now, with the 2026 Game Developer Conference underway, ...

Smiling Friends, Monty Python, and a whole lot of milk all helped shape the comedy stylings of this upcoming RPG parody

The Dungeon Experience devs outline their influences ahead of the Future Games Show ...
TMCnet

Next Evolution of Best-In-Class Multi-agent AI Assistant for Unreal Engine Releases with Aura 12.0 Beta

Ramen, developer of Aura, has released Aura 12.0 beta, the latest iteration of the best-in-class multi-agent AI assistant for Unreal Engine, which launched this January. Aura 12.0 introduces enhanced ...

Ring Programming Language Expands with Major Package Contributions from Developer Youssef Saeed

Ring Team Announces Significant New Contributions by Developer Youssef Saeed Youssef’s contributions, creativity, and ...
Joy of Android

GitHub Games and the Open Approach to Game Development

GitHub games are open-source projects for testing gameplay ideas, sharing code, and collaborating publicly outside ...
GameSpot

Snake Eyes Game Remains In Development, But Its Developer Just Closed

Developer Atomic Arcade's new G.I. Joe game focused on Snake Eyes remains in development following upheaval at the studio that included the closure of the entire studio. Hasbro, which owns the IP and ...
Engadget

Riot Games is laying off half of the 2XKO development team

Another day, another wave of gaming layoffs. Today it's Riot Games with the announcement that it's cutting jobs on its pair-based fighting game 2XKO. For context, a representative from Riot confirmed ...
The Escapist

Google’s Project Genie 3 generates playable game worlds, raising questions for future of game development

For the last few months, gamers have largely let big dev studios know that AI is non-negotiable in games. From the fears of Larian’s ongoing use, ARC Raiders’ voice-acting debacle, and even Gen AI art ...
The Verge

Half of developers think gen AI is bad for the gaming industry

A new survey from the Game Developers Conference reveals how many developers feel about the technology. A new survey from the Game Developers Conference reveals how many developers feel about the ...
Futurism

Indie Developer Deleting Entire Game From Steam Due to Shame From Having Used AI

An indie game developer experienced a moment of profound moral clarity, and is now deleting his partially-AI-made game from the digital storefront Steam. The game, dubbed “Hardest,” is a free-to-play ...