What we learnt from England’s first steps on the road to the 2027 World Cup

The 2027 Women’s World Cup is 473 days away. That may seem like a long time, but England head coach Sarina Wiegman will only see her players seven more times in camp before the tournament in Brazil ...
CNET

Microsoft's Next Xbox Console Is for Real, and It'll Play PC Games, Too

Microsoft has confirmed what many have speculated: that its next-generation gaming console will be a hybrid piece of hardware that can play Xbox games as well as Windows PC games. There aren't yet any ...
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 ...
Futurism

Unity Says It Has a New Product That Cooks Up Entire Games Using AI

Attention, gamers: if you thought new titles on top of the endless cavalcade of sequels and remakes were derivative now, wait till you hear about what the game engine maker Unity has got in store.
Digital Trends

Unity will soon let you create casual games using simple text prompts

Making a video game usually means learning to code, working with complex game engines, and spending hours piecing everything together. That is true even for simple casual games. Many aspiring ...
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Using Canva Code to Create Learning Games

Did you know you can create engaging educational games for your class using Canva Code? And no, Code here doesn’t mean coding. There’s no programming involved. No tech headaches. Just you, your ...
The New York Times

How Hate Groups and Terrorists Use Gaming Platforms to Recruit Young Children

Fringe movements are using games and other online platforms to draw growing numbers of children to their causes, new data and dozens of interviews show. By Pranav Baskar Taking a page from the child ...
techxplore

Are video game developers using AI? Players want to know, but the rules are patchy

As with all creative industries, generative artificial intelligence (AI) has been infiltrating video games. Now, generative AI is being used to produce game assets and speed up development. This is ...
The Conversation

Are video game developers using AI? Players want to know, but the rules are patchy

Thomas Byers receives funding from The Research Training Program Scholarship, supported by the Australian Commonwealth Government and the University of Melbourne. Bjorn Nansen receives funding from ...
GamesIndustry

Roblox debuts tool for players to AI-generate interactive in-game objects, promises "full scene generation" is coming

Roblox has announced a beta tool which enables users to create interactive 3D models from text prompts, an upgrade to its existing 3D asset generation tool revealed last year. The feature was ...
The New York Times

Students Are Skipping the Hardest Part of Growing Up

Mr. Shirky, a vice provost at New York University, has been helping faculty members and students adapt to digital tools since 2015. Back in 2023, when ChatGPT was still new, a professor friend had a ...
coinspeaker

Best Crypto Games to Play in 2026

Based on our research, the best crypto games top pick for 2026 is Off the Grid. Players earn rewards by playing matches and completing in-game missions. Two strong alternatives: Axie Infinity for its ...