Game designer Gareth Damian Martin announced their next game, 'Signet City,' set for a 2027 launch. This narrative role-playing adventure, inspired by 80s northern English city life and social photography, places players as a parasite inhabiting multiple hosts in a dystopian monochrome city, blending sci-fi with unique mechanics.
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis argues companies cutting engineers due to AI productivity gains are misguided. He believes increased efficiency should lead to more ambitious projects, not layoffs, and welcomes laid-off talent for new ventures like drug discovery and game design.
Filmmaker Genki Kawamura has adapted the indie horror game 'Exit 8' into a feature film, using its looping subway setting to explore themes of modern alienation, digital detachment, and suppressed guilt.
Nvidia, now the world's most valuable company due to AI demand, is shifting away from its gaming roots. The chipmaker that nearly went bankrupt in 1999 before gamers saved it with purchases of its GeForce 256 GPU now earns nearly all revenue from AI products. With operating margins of 69% in AI compute versus 40% in gaming graphics, and facing severe DRAM shortages, Nvidia is prioritizing high-margin AI chips like Hopper and Blackwell. Analysts predict 2026 may be the first year in three decades without a new GeForce generation, sparking anger among the gaming community who feel betrayed.
