How Bungie built Marathon’s live-service experience years before the game even launched

Bungie and Kurppa Hosk explain how they built a live-service experience with ARGs years before the game was released ...
Hip-Hop Wired

'Astro Bot' Is Game of The Year At 2025 New York Game Awards

Simone De Rochefort and Clayton Ashley (Polygon) took home the prestigious Knickerbocker Award for Best Games Journalism. Remedy Studios' head, Sam Lake, was honored in special tribute as this year's ...
GitHub

BloxFlip Mine and Tower Predictor Bot

This project is a Discord bot built using the interactions.py library, designed to generate grids for mine and tower games, as well as predict outcomes for crash games. The bot allows users with ...
Android Authority

Netflix is coming for Discord with this social gaming feature

Code within the Netflix app v9.60.0 suggests a voice chat feature is coming to the games catalog. The feature appears to use Agora’s cross-platform voice chat API and may integrate with the phone-as-a ...
Pocket Gamer.Biz

Discord expands its Social SDK with native mobile linking and focus on friends

Discord's Social SDK now has fully native mobile linking on iOS and Android. Linked players are said to have 16% longer play sessions. Discord is offering new ways for developers to reduce friction in ...
Gameranx

ARC Raiders Was Secretly Collecting User Discord Data, Players Need To Update Their Game Now

Embark Studios and/or Discord also need to explain. ARC Raiders was found to have a major security issue, which players need to fix with a game update ASAP. Engineer Timothy Meadows first found the ...
Polygon

Epic Games warns Fortnite players about bot-controlled V-bucks scams

It's been a rough couple of months for Fortnite fans since Epic Games enabled creative island creators to offer in-game transactions. Perhaps unsurprisingly, most of the drama centers on a single ...
New York Post

Mysterious Roman-era board game that eluded scientists for a century finally solved by AI

Netherlands researchers used AI to decipher an ancient blocking game that had baffled scientists for years. GamePixel - stock.adobe.com It gamed the system. Here’s yet more proof that AI is playing 3D ...
New Scientist

AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations

Advanced AI models appear willing to deploy nuclear weapons without the same reservations humans have when put into simulated geopolitical crises. Kenneth Payne at King’s College London set three ...
PCGamesN

Discord delays its age verification, admits it knew the rollout was "going to be controversial" and that it "failed at its most basic job"

After constant pushback from its users, popular chat platform Discord is pulling back on plans to introduce a "global age assurance" process, admitting in a statement that the company "failed at our ...
Android

Reddit & Discord Face Heat Over Age Verification Service

Reddit and Discord are in serious trouble over the use of a controversial third-party age verification service, Persona. Reddit has been fined £14.5 million ($19.5M) by the UK data watchdog. Meanwhile ...