A great puzzle game for people who like the idea of Blue Prince but don't want to spend days banging their head against it is free for the week on the Epic Store

I bring this up because Botany Manor sounds very much like my kind of puzzle game—lots going on, but not too intellectually ...
Dexerto

Claude AI builds fully playable Pokemon clone in under two hours for free

A free Claude AI model built a fully playable Pokemon-style game in under two hours, featuring turn-based battles, NPCs, and ...

OpenAI releases GPT-5.3-Codex, a coding model that helped build itself

Anthropic, one of OpenAI's chief rivals, also released a new coding model today, Claude Opus 4.6. Earlier this week, OpenAI ...
eWeek

Moltbook Bots Build Lobster Cult

Who needs humans when a purported 1.5 million agents trade lobster memes and start their own religion? Moltbook, vibe-coded by Octane AI founder Matt Schlicht in a weekend (he cla ...
IEEE

Design of Amazon Chess Evaluation Function Based on Reinforcement Learning

Abstract: The computer chess is an important research direction of artificial intelligence. Amazon chess game is an extremely complicated strategy game and the search algorithm relies heavily on the ...
Game Rant

Say Hello To The Next Big Deck-Building Games

An HR advisor with a background in recruitment and HRIS functions, with a passion for video games and writing. Oliver grew up playing Call of Duty with his siblings and has garnered 1000s of hours ...
Inverse

A Strange Twist On Chess Makes For An Excellent Roguelike Strategy Game In Shotgun King

Shotgun King is a surprisingly clever strategy game that’s also a silly twist on chess. Punkcake Délicieux In Shotgun King, you play as a mad tyrant fighting to put down a rebellion in his dominion — ...
National Hockey League

Winter Classic rink build underway in Miami for Rangers-Panthers outdoor game

MIAMI --It’s beginning to look a lot like hockey at loanDepot park. The dasher boards, glass, benches and penalty boxes are all up in preparation for the 2026 Discover NHL Winter Classic at the home ...
The New York Times

Indian boy, aged 3, becomes youngest rated chess player in history

Sarwagya Singh Kushwaha has become the youngest player in chess history to earn an official FIDE rating at the age of three years, seven months and 20 days. Born in 2022, Sarwagya — from Sagar in the ...
New York Post

NYC couple goes viral for using Empire State Building as Christmas tree topper

This may be the most New York City tree you’ll see this Christmas. A Greenwich Village couple trimming their tree last week realized that they don’t need an angel or a star because the Empire State ...
GamesRadar+

Opposing Steam's AI disclosures, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says game stores should drop "the AI tag" because "it makes no sense" when "AI will be involved in nearly all future ...

Games PC gamers and Steam customers are "a really bright spot" as the games industry struggles with prices, analyst says Games Epic Games Store boss says beating Steam isn't the plan – just "enough ...
IGN

Arc Raiders Publisher Defends Generative AI Use, Insists 'Every Game Company' Is Now Using It

Arc Raiders publisher Nexon has defended the game's use of generative AI, suggesting players should "assume that every game company is now using AI." Arc Raiders, like developer Embark's 2023 shooter, ...