Chess960's random setups still favor white, new study reveals

Chess is a relatively simple game to learn but a very difficult one to master. Because the starting positions of the pieces ...
SBCNews

BETBY: chess can be the next big betting vertical

Kirill Nekrasov, Head of Sportsbook Product at BETBY, writes for SBC News to outline exactly why chess is becoming a popular ...
Game Rant

Expedition 33 Has Been Disqualified from the Indie Game Awards 2025 Due Use of Gen AI

Drew Swanson is a Features Article Editor from the Pacific Northwest of the United States. He is a lifelong gamer with a passion for a variety of genres. A connoisseur of everything from JRPGs and ...
Polygon

BG3 studio Larian says it's using genAI for Divinity, but not 'looking at trimming down teams to replace them'

Baldur's Gate 3 and Divinity Original Sin developer Larian Studios generated a ton of hype (and no shortage of revulsion) when it revealed its next big role-playing game, Divinity, at The Game Awards ...
Time

Daniel Naroditsky’s Death Exposes an Existential Threat to Chess

Daniel Naroditsky at the FIDE World Rapid Championship on Dec. 28, 2024 in New York, NY.Lennart Ootes—Getty Images In July, the American grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky played a speed chess game against ...
Phys.org

Using video games to get kids interested in learning

Though some might see video games as a distraction, a recent study from the University of Georgia suggests they can actually serve as a place to practice key science skills—with the help of some ...
Wired

An AI Dark Horse Is Rewriting the Rules of Game Design

The video game Valorant, a fast-paced team-based shooter, has recently become a testing ground for a promising new direction in artificial intelligence research. The game’s developers at Riot Games (a ...
IGN

Where Winds Meet Players Are Using the 'Solid Snake Method' to Trick AI Chatbot NPCs Into Skipping Sidequests

Where Winds Meet players are taking a novel approach to solving riddles by… simply telling the game's AI-powered chatbot NPCs that they have solved the game's riddles. The Wuxia open-world ...
CNET

Nintendo Faces Backlash Over Pokemon Pokopia Use of Switch 2's Game-Key Card

When Nintendo revealed the Switch 2, it showcased the console's Game-Key Cards feature, which enables the storage of a small amount of data on the cartridge, with the remainder of the game being ...
IGN

Arc Raiders Publisher Defends Generative AI Use, Insists 'Every Game Company' Is Now Using It

Arc Raiders publisher Nexon has defended the game's use of generative AI, suggesting players should "assume that every game company is now using AI." Arc Raiders, like developer Embark's 2023 shooter, ...
Forbes

Should An ‘ARC Raiders’ Review Score Be Tanked Because The Game Uses AI?

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet. I have always taken issue with Eurogamer’s “they know ...
PC Gamer

'Every game company is now using AI': Nexon's CEO defends the use of generative AI in game development in the wake of Arc Raiders' controversy

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. To this end, Nexon's CEO Junghun Lee recently addressed Nexon's projects (which include Embark's ...