When players become artists: the rise of in‑game photography

Several artists have turned in‑game photography into a serious artistic practice, with radically different approaches.

'I taught my dog to vibe code games': Yup, someone actually managed to get Claude AI to code a game based on the keyboard inputs of a pooch

If this is what a Cavapoo can do, goodness knows what a Border Collie would code.

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 ...
Rock Paper Shotgun

Marathon might be the perfect 2026 shooter in that I feel like I'm stuck in a giant Nvidia graphics card

Marathon's server slam is a great introduction to its busy but interesting art direction, which feels like a parody of product design.

How a team of game devs trying to build the next big thing raised a $4.5 million seed round from A16Z and Laton Ventures

Brice Laville Saint-Martin and his cofounders at Antihero Studios left their jobs at big studios. Now, they're building their dream game.
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 ...
PCMag

Developer Uses Older AMD GPU for Game Demo, and the Results Are Impressive

Developer Pearl Abyss gave Digital Foundry preview footage of its upcoming open-world game Crimson Desert, and it used the last-generation RX 7900 XTX and Ryzen 9 7900X3D.