Dean Takahashi    Season of a TV show is not something I write about very often, given my focus is video games. But Season of Mythic Quest is another matter.

Carl Franzen    Marc Andreessen, Yann LeCunn and Mark Zuckerberg have all penned what appear to be responses to the Chinese open source model’s ascent.

Michael Nuñez    Y Combinator’s fastest growing startup Origami Agents raised M to build AI research tools that help sales teams find perfect customers.

Taryn Plumb    OpenAI used its own o preview and o mini models to test whether additional inference time compute protected against various attacks.

Dean Takahashi    Authorities arrested GameOn Technology founder Alex Beckman and attorney Valerie Lau Beckman a married couple for allegedly defrauding investors of million.

Dean Takahashi    I’m a fan of transparency. Because, as the big newspaper says, Democracy dies in darkness.

Rachel Kaser    G Esports announced the launch of a new media agency called , which aims to connect brands with gamers.

Rachel Kaser    The Royal Shakespeare Company announced it’s making its first video game alongside iNK Stories, an adaptation of MacBeth called Lili.

Carl Franzen    DeepSeek has a free website and mobile app even for U.S. users with an R powered chatbot interface similar to OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

Rachel Kaser    Circana’s December report reveals Indiana Jones and the Great Circle is ’s last big hurrah on the U.S. sales charts.

Michael Nuñez    Trump unveils ambitious billion ’Project Stargate’ AI initiative with tech giants OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank, sparking controversy as Elon Musk questions funding and environmentalists raise concerns about massive data centers.

Ben Dickson    Sakana found that self adaptive models can modify their weights during inference to adjust behavior to new and unseen tasks.

Imran Khan    The developers of games like Street Fighter are using generative AI to take the busywork out of development.

Michael Nuñez    Hugging Face’s new SmolVLM models run on smartphones, outperform larger systems and slash computing costs by X.

Mike Minotti    David Haddad, who has served as Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment president for years, is leaving the company.

Dean Takahashi    Savvy Games Group expanded its leadership team with former executive director of the International Game Developers Association Foundation, Nika Nour. Nour, who carries over a decade’s experience in games and esports, and held positions at Genvid Entertainment, Entertainment Software Association,...

Dean Takahashi    Id Software, a division of Microsoft’s Bethesda, unveiled the details of Doom: The Dark Ages, a prequel to Doom coming on May . It’s a big reveal for a game that is the third in a series of modern Doom games Doom and Doom Eternal in and this one is

Dean Takahashi    Amplitude Studios announced Endless Legend, a long awaited next entry in the award winning fantasy strategy game series.

Carl Franzen    Instead of relying on specialized APIs, the system uses screenshots for visual input and virtual mouse and keyboard actions to complete tasks.

Rachel Kaser    Platinum Games and Team Ninja announced their new game, Ninja Gaiden, at Xbox’s January Developer Direct.

Dean Takahashi    It’s been a long time coming, with a couple of big giant companies standing in the way. But Epic Games announced it will finally be able to release third party mobile games on the Epic Games Store. It’s been an epic ordeal to get this far, but the launch includes games from tens of developers, with...

Shubham Sharma    Pipeshift has a Lego like system that allows teams to configure the right inference stack for their AI workloads, without extensive engineering.

Dean Takahashi    Ubisoft let me preview what may be one of its most important games of all time: Assassin’s Creed: Shadows.

Dean Takahashi    AIAS announced that Ted Price, president of Insomniac Games, will be honored with a prestigious Hall of Fame Award.