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Board games go full Funko Pop, with teeny tiny micro-replicas of classics to collect, but NEVER play
Board game hobbyists don’t really need any help buying copies of games that they never actually play – but Brotherwise Games has found a way to make it even easier. ‘Shelfy’ is its upcoming range of scaled-down model board game boxes, created in partnership with 20 different games publishers, which it plans to sell as…
We’re introducing Server Authority with client prediction and rollback on Roblox to give creators a powerful new tool for creating hyper-responsive, secure games out of the box. Roblox is inherently multiplayer and multi-device. Server Authority helps games feel responsive and fair across devices by ensuring that any change to game state happens quickly and consistently
Epic Games has reached a settlement behind closed doors in a high-profile lawsuit against a former Epic Games contractor who allegedly leaked details about Fortnite content updates and collaborations on an X account. The case involves Hayden Cohen, who previously worked at Epic Games as an associate producer on Fortnite
A report surfaced that the now defunct Vertigo Games Amsterdam was working on a new VR game based on the Tomb Raider series. We dug into this, and here’s what we found out
Epic Games, the company behind the wildly popular game Fortnite, is betting big on the metaverse. The studio raised $1 billion each from Sony and LEGO, with both investors trusting Epic Games to sprinkle some of its development magic dust on their metaverse plans.
One of the most beloved shared universes is the superhero-laden Marvel Universe, which includes everyone from the X-Men to the Avengers. Ever since the Atari 2600 era, these heroes and villains have been adapted into the video game medium. All these decades later, whenever a Marvel game is set to be released, it still feels…
If I were to hop over to the PlayStation Store right now and browse the game catalog, I’d see a prominent “Buy Now” button for each title. However, that wording is blatantly untrue, a comfortable and deliberate piece of psychological theater. In reality, hidden deep within the PlayStation Network Terms of Service, Sony explicitly states…
When it comes to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI), large language models just don’t have what it takes. Models like ChatGPT and Claude are great at text, but they’re less skilled at understanding how things actually move through space and time — an essential skill for producing intelligence that generalizes. That gap, it turns out, might be filled by gaming data. That’s the bet behind General Intuition, a…
Nintendo is bringing new games and new ways to play to this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, where attendees will be among the first in the U.S. to try the newly announced active game Nintendo Switch Sports Resort for the Nintendo Switch 2 system and step into the treasure-hunting action-adventure game Splatoon Raiders. Together, these experiences…
Brotherwise Games is betting that hobby board game brands can travel beyond the tabletop by launching Shelfy, a collectibles line of miniature board game boxes featuring titles from 20 publishers