A Warhammer 40K racing game and a chess roguelike are free to claim on the Epic Games Store

The latest double giveaway from the Epic Games Store is now live, giving PC gamers copies of an official Warhammer 40K racing ...
The New York Times

How Three Chess Friends Battled Demons and Saved Two Lives

A homeless chess hustler, a scholar and an aging recluse found hope in a trashed apartment by Central Park. A homeless chess hustler, a scholar and an aging recluse found hope in a trashed apartment ...
gematsu

Studio Reset established – Canadian game studio by former BioWare, Inflexion Games, and Timbre Games staff

Studio Reset, a new Canadian game studio founded by former Mass Effect, Dragon Age, The Long Dark, and Anthem developers, has announced its establishment. It is currently working on a “neon-noir ...
TechCrunch

Google’s ‘Create My Widget’ feature will let you vibe-code your own widgets

Google on Tuesday unveiled a new “Create My Widget” feature for Android that allows users to vibe-code their own custom widgets. The feature will first launch on the latest Samsung Galaxy and Google ...
IGN

Former Tekken Lead Katsuhiro Harada Sets Up Own Company, VS Studio

Former Tekken director, Katsuhiro Harada, has established his own game development company, VS Studio. Drawing on his 31 years of experience at Bandai Namco, Harada has teamed up with SNK Corporation ...
Wall Street Journal

The College-Admissions Chess Game Is More Complicated Than Ever

For high-school seniors across the country, May 1 is the denouement of a college-admissions chess game that has become more complicated than ever. Friday—the deadline for students to tell colleges ...
New Atlas

This robot is set to be your miniature AI chess partner – or coach

If a fervent chess player seeking a challenging game partner doesn’t happen to live in a major city such as St. Louis, Missouri, home of the World Chess Hall of Fame, the next best thing might be ...
GameSpot

TLOU Star Troy Baker Wants To Start His Own Game Studio — “Don’t Do It,” Another Dev Says

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Actor and musician Troy Baker–known for his work on The Last of Us ...
MM&M

Making Brands Stick: VCCP’s CHESS moves to create work that works

What makes a healthcare brand stick? In this episode, VCCP Health unpacks CHESS moves: Character, Humor, Emotion, Surprise and Sonic Branding, and how they help brands move beyond awareness to become ...
InfoWorld

Visual Studio Code 1.115 introduces VS Code Agents app

Preview of new companion app allows developers to run multiple agent sessions in parallel across multiple repos and iterate on human and agent reviews. Visual Studio Code 1.115, the latest release of ...
Yahoo! Sports

Chess grandmaster takes selfie with opponent... then reports her for using phone

As she sat down for a match with the world’s No1 chess player Magnus Carlsen, Alua Nurman could not resist asking for a selfie. To the 18-year-old grand master’s delight, Carlsen agreed and leaned ...
TechSpot

AI has mastered chess, so humans are changing the rules of the game

The chess program Stockfish can crush Norwegian chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen, who is largely considered the greatest player in history. However, it cannot replace him. These super-strong platforms ...