At GDC 2026, Google trumpeted Gemini-powered games, but the industry still hasn't found must-have uses to win over players and developers. David Lumb is a senior reporter covering mobile and gaming ...

Growing up in the aughts in San Francisco, I always had the distinct sense that the party was over. Whatever flame burned in defiance of the AIDS crisis was marked on Google Maps as a popular tourist ...

Thousands of people attended the Game Developers Conference at Moscone Center in San Francisco. Video games are one of the Bay Area’s biggest, and still growing, businesses. Scott Budman was at the ...

Google Cloud is pushing “Living Games”, powered by autonomous AI agents that interact with players and game worlds in real time. Agentic AI tools could automate playtesting, code generation and other ...

Microsoft's next-generation game console will feature AMD silicon, as did the Xbox Series X and Series S from 2020, an executive said on Wednesday. Jason Ronald, a vice president in Microsoft's Xbox ...

Organizers of the 26th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards (GDCA) have revealed the recipients of two of the awards show’s most prestigious accolades, the honorees of the Lifetime Achievement and ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The blood of the dragon is headed to the big screen. While details of the plot have yet to be confirmed, the film ...

A backlash against the spreading use of AI in video games has grown “sensational,” the developer behind the surprise smash hit Arc Raiders has warned after being caught in the middle of the fallout.

Much of the conversation around artificial intelligence (AI) in game development starts with the same question: Will AI replace developers? It’s an understandable concern, but it’s the wrong framing.

2XKO is a new free-to-play 2v2 tag-team fighting game developed by Rioty Games. It made its official debut last month after being announced during last year’s Game Awards. So far, the game has ...

Blade Runner 2033 Labyrinth has been delisted on Steam, 18 months after 24 employees resigned from developer Annapurna Interactive, including game director Chelsea Hash and the entire Blade Runner ...

Artificial intelligence is no longer the "future" of game development. It’s already reshaping how studios build, ship and scale mobile games. Rather than a theoretical trend or an optional experiment, ...