YouTube is letting creators make playable games with a Gemini 3 tool

YouTube is launching a closed Beta test for Playables Builder, a prototype web app built using Gemini 3 where users create games with short text, video or image prompts. we’ve partnered with YouTube ...
GameSpot

The Game Awards 2025: How To Watch, Start Times, And What To Expect

Where to watch The Game Awards? We'll have a stream available right here for you to watch, so you can either bookmark this post or return to GameSpot to read some articles and catch the show. Outside ...

People Are Using Sora 2 to Make Disturbing Videos With AI-Generated Kids

Videos such as fake ads featuring AI children playing with vibrators or Jeffrey Epstein- and Diddy-themed play sets are being ...

In 2025, AI became a lightning rod for gamers and developers

Gen-AI showed up in the year’s biggest releases including game of the year.
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Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi shouts out Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 after its director said the JRPG icon "inspired me to become a game dev"

RPGs Despite wanting Arc Raiders to win GOTY, Shroud admits Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is good after finally playing it RPGs Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 lead says the secret of the J'RPG's success is ...
CNET

I Brought Retro Games Back to Life the AI Way, Thanks to Gemini Vibe Coding

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...
CNET

Vibe Coding as a Non-Coder: 6 Ways I Found to Have More Fun and Better Luck Creating With AI

My coding skills leave something to be desired. I never stuck with the instructional books and guides long enough to truly create the kinds of apps and programs I wanted to see. AI chatbots powered by ...
Wired

An AI Dark Horse Is Rewriting the Rules of Game Design

The video game Valorant, a fast-paced team-based shooter, has recently become a testing ground for a promising new direction in artificial intelligence research. The game’s developers at Riot Games (a ...
9to5Google

The YouTube Playables Builder lets creators build games with Gemini 3

YouTube announced Playables in 2023 as lightweight games that could be accessed on the platform. The new Gemini 3-powered YouTube Playables Builder lets anyone build a game without any coding ...
Rock Paper Shotgun

Minos: Home A-Labyrinth temporarily turns Artificer's Ancient Greek maze-builder into a free Home Alone game

"That's not a minotaur, that's a stand-in for the child star of a classic 90s Christmas movie," I yell while playing Minos' ...
Nieman Journalism Lab

Is there a future for video games journalism?

All this is to say that a dedicated video game desk — or at least a dogged video game reporter — is an essential requirement for any newsroom dedicated to fluent coverage of pop culture. When Ilhan ...
The Escapist

PancitoMerge review: Tasty Tetris

Nothing is cozier than enjoying a diverse selection of pastries fresh out of the oven from the local bakery. PancitoMerge is a love letter to Mexican baking, with pan dulce the star attraction of the ...