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fromThe Verge
8 hours agoThere's nothing like an RPG over vacation
People of Note is a music-themed RPG that offers a relaxing gaming experience while featuring a journey of an aspiring pop singer.
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Software development
fromTNW | Artificial-Intelligence
2 days agoRoblox AI assistant gets agentic tools to plan, build, and self-test games
Roblox is enhancing its AI assistant with capabilities for planning, procedural generation, and self-correction, transforming it into a junior development partner.
fromArmin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
1 week agoMario and Earendil
Last year changed the way many of us thought about software. It certainly changed the way I did. I spent much of 2025 building, probing, and questioning how to build software, and in many more ways what I want to do.
Software development
fromKotaku
2 days agoSteam Super Hit Windrose Is What Skull & Bones Should Have Been
Windrose is a sprawling survival crafting game, featuring base building, multiplayer, and some damn-hard-to-kill boar. It's this part of the game that might end up being a roadblock for those just wanting to sail the seas with a crew of singing pirates.
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fromKotaku
3 weeks agoRPGs Lead To The Strongest 'Post-Game Depression,' Study Finds
The study, published in the Current Psychology journal, was conducted by researchers from SWPS University and the Stefan Batory Academy of Applied Sciences, who set out to measure the 'sense of emptiness that arises after completing a deeply immersive game.' Post-Game Depression, or P-DGS, was measured across two separate studies, with a total of 373 participants.
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History
fromMedievalists.net
1 month ago10 Ways Video Games Have Rewritten the Middle Ages - Medievalists.net
Video games have become a primary way modern audiences encounter the Middle Ages, creating a distinctive form of medievalism shaped by gameplay mechanics that emphasizes warfare and reshapes historical reality.
fromKotaku
3 weeks agoI Can't Stop Playing This Terrible Game, So Maybe It's Good?
Timber Rush is about numbers going up in the crudest way imaginable, a clicker game that barely even features clicking, in which you move your woodcutter side to side as increasing numbers of increasingly silly logs fly around the screen.
Games
Board games
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month agoLess respawning, more re-rolling: six of the best board games based on video games
Video games increasingly adapt into physical board games, with successful examples like Company of Heroes 2nd Edition and Slay the Spire translating digital mechanics into tabletop experiences using dice, miniatures, and cards.
fromhttps://www.arogyayogaschool.com/blog
2 months agoWhy Short Play Sessions Beat Long Grinds In Modern Game Design
Games did not suddenly become "worse." Games adapted. Attention got tired, schedules got tighter, and competition for free time turned brutal. A ten-minute gap now has to fight against messages, videos, and endless feeds. In that environment, long-form sessions still exist, but short sessions often win because they respect reality instead of demanding a perfect evening. That shift is visible everywhere, from mobile puzzlers to competitive titles and even casino-style experiences where a quick crore win feeling is part of the appeal.
Video games
fromKotaku
1 month agoCrimson Desert: Everything You Need To Know About The New RPG
Crimson Desert is a standalone single-player open-world action RPG launching March 19 on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series S/X, built on Pearl Abyss's new BlackSpace engine with combat-focused gameplay similar to Dragon's Dogma.
Board games
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
1 month agoYour Tactical Role-Playing Game Setup deserves a better Command Deck. Meet the ONE BOX 4.0 - Yanko Design
ONE BOX 4.0 is a modular wooden tabletop organizer that unfolds into compartments to keep cards, dice, tokens, and phones organized throughout gameplay.
fromEngadget
1 month agoSlay the Spire 2, Scott Pilgrim EX and other new indie games worth checking out
Nintendo packed a lot of news into that 18-minute stream, including the sudden arrivals of three great games - Blue Prince, Minishoot' Adventures and Öoo - on Switch and/or Switch 2. The company revealed release dates for a bunch of games we've had on our radar, such as InKonbini: One Store (April 30), Denshattack! (June 17) and others.
Video games
Video games
fromThe Verge
1 month agoIndie games are turning the act of looking into an art
Hidden Folks pioneered a 'searching' game genre that emphasizes curiosity and exploration within detailed worlds, distinguishing itself from traditional hidden object games through interactive storytelling and playful discovery.
fromEngadget
2 months agoLayers of 3 revealed via a mysterious trailer and poem
The new chapter will include not only a game but a novel and music, the company said in a press release. The developer revealed the new IP via a live-action teaser, with an actor reading lines from William Blake's poem, The Sick Rose. A painting then fell from the wall, and the actor then turned over an hourglass with red sand, with a tagline stating "The door won't stay closed."
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