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We ran AI agent swarms in Minecraft and Mindustry
Swarms of Claude and GPT agents in Minecraft and Mindustry.
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Genie 4
Genie 4 introduces real-time interactive world simulation with native audio, advanced physics, natural human motion, and steering powered by Gemini models.
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Gaussian Splats part 3: There's always a bigger scene
Continuing our Gaussian splatting development series, Director of Technology Sam Birley breaks down how we bypassed GPU Scene instance caps, implemented PlayCanvas Streamed SOG LODs, and managed GPU memory budgets for production-ready photogrammetry… bringing us to a point where the renderer has fin
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RimWorld 1.7 moves from Unity to Ludeon's in-house Waylith engine
Ludeon Studios is an independent game developer. We love deep PC games and story generators.
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Bevy 0.20
Thanks to 227 contributors, 817 pull requests, community reviewers, and our generous donors, we're happy to announce the Bevy 0.20 release on crates.i…
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VGHF Digital Archive passes 5000 magazines. Here's what's next
We've passed a big milestone for our digital archive. Let's talk about where our magazine collection is going next...
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We ported the original Doom to SQL
CedarDB is a database system that delivers unmatched performance for transactions and analytics, from small writes to handling billions of rows. Built on cutting-edge research to power today’s tools and tomorrow’s challenges.
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SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering
The real difference between texture-atlas, SDF, MSDF, and Slug glyph rendering on the GPU: how each works, where each breaks, and when to use which.
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Using any C++ library in Godot
How Godot's GDExtension system and the godot-cpp bindings work, and how to use Conan to bring C and C++ libraries into a Godot game, with a flecs example that simulates 100,000 particles.
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Factorio that you can touch
Hello, we have very unusual Friday facts for you.
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First Shader from Zero in Godot 4
Create your first shader in Godot. Implement texture sampling, shift shader UV coordinates, mask regions, and use noise to generate random shapes that make up a portal.
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Stockfish 19
Stronger, smaller, and easier to run, thanks to an upgraded network architecture, universal binaries, and more!
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OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor
OpenShot 4.0 adds professional color grading, screen and webcam recording, local object masks, 10 new effects, a cleaner native timeline, and faster creative workflows.
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Orbs
Everything has changed for us with orbs. How do I make you believe me?
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EVE Online moves to Python 3
How do you migrate 2.4 million lines of code?
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WorldClaw Agentic 3D open-world generation at scale
From one open-ended prompt to an explicit, explorable, and editable 3D world.
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Stop Killing Games: It's time to sue Sony, join us
Heb jij een PlayStation? Dan betaal je onterecht een Sony Tax op al je digitale games. Stichting Massaschade & Consument voert collectieve actie voor een Fair PlayStation.
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Quake – 30th Anniversary Update
To celebrate the 30th Anniversary of Quake, we have collaborated with MachineGames to create a new episode, Dawn of the Machine, now available as a free update to Quake.
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Ray tracing massive amounts of animated geometry using tetrahedral cages
Animate compact tetrahedral cages and reuse static mini-BLASes to ray-trace hundreds of millions of triangles in real time, dramatically cutting per-frame update and memory costs for dense foliage, grass, and crowds.
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Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source
Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source. Explore the IRC client that turned conversations into comics and helped introduce Comic Sans to the world.
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The Conservationist Who Turned 40 Terabytes of Public Data into a Video Game
Raffael Hickisch spent years dreaming up conservation tools he couldn't afford to build. Then he built them himself, with an AI agent and a country's worth of public data.
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Box3D, an open source 3D physics engine
I’m happy to announce the release of Box3D, an open source 3D physics engine. It is now available on GitHub. Box3D repository You can think of Box3D as a fork of Box2D, extended with many features needed for 3D games. Some additions: Triangle mesh collision Height-field collision Baked compound collision The core…
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Factorio 2.1 Experimental Release
Hello, we hope your week has been pleasant.
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OpenTTD 16.0-Beta1
We’ve been working on some exciting new features for OpenTTD 16, and they need testing! The first beta release is now available, and we’ve opened the competition to create the title game for the next release.
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Dolphin Emulator Progress Release 2606
Welcome to the Progress Report for Dolphin Release 2606. We usually prefer to launch toward the beginning of the month, but a slew of important, large, and technically challenging changes had us working overtime. Strap in, because we have a lot to cover! For April Fool's we teased that Dolphin now had support for the…
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How I play video games with spinal muscular atrophy
My name is Andrei Cebotar. I’m 37, I live in Moldova, and I have Spinal Muscular Atrophy.
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