This charming pixel art game solves one of AI coding’s most annoying UX problems

Pixel Agents turns your AI coding agents into adorable sprite characters who work for you in an office, allowing you to keep tabs on what's going on at a glance.

Minecraft: Java Edition To Replace OpenGL With Vulkan

Now, with Vulkan on the horizon, Minecraft: Java Edition is finally stepping into a modern graphics era. For a title that continues to thrive years after launch, the Vulkan upgrade signals that even ...
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 ...

‘Crisol: Theater Of Idols’ Game Developer Talks ‘Resident Evil’ Inspiration, Haunting Game Design & Teases Future Ideas

What are you willing to sacrifice for the greater good of a nation, your heart or your religion? These conundrums are just a ...
PCMag

Play These 24 Indie Video Games From Developers of Color Now

Indie games bring innovation and artistry to the video game industry, and people of color bring diversity and perspective to indie games. These PoC-developed indie titles should be on your radar.
Smithsonian Magazine

Nintendo Released Its First ‘Pokémon’ Games 30 Years Ago. Here’s How the Beloved Catchable ‘Pocket Monsters’ Became the World’s Biggest Media Franchise

The phenomenon—with its video games, trading cards, shows, movies and merchandise—has generated billions in revenue ...

You might be as surprised as I was to learn that Assassin's Creed Mirage is one of the few games to use AI neural texture compression—the only one, I think

You don't get something for nothing in the world of graphics, though, and when it comes to neural texture compression, all ...

How researchers learned the rules of an ancient Roman board game

A team of researchers in the Netherlands set out to decipher the rules of an ancient Roman board game, with an assist from artificial intelligence.
Hackaday

Real-time Shader, Running On A Game Boy Color

Danny Spencer] has a brilliant graphical demo that, like all great demos, flexes a deep understanding of the underlying system: a real-time 3D shader on the Game Boy Color. If you’re not ...

"We had no idea this would be such a phenomenon": As Pokemon Red and Blue turn 30, here's how Game Freak created one of the most important RPGs of all time

Takes you closer to the games, movies and TV you love Issues delivered straight to your door or device 30 Years of Pokemon | The making of Pokemon Red & Blue charts the creation of a Game Boy classic ...