Hacker News with Generative AI: Gaming

Xbox pushes ahead with new generative AI (wired.com)
Microsoft is wading deeper into generative artificial intelligence for gaming with Muse, a new AI model announced today.

Generative AI, Gaming, Microsoft, Xbox

26 points by 01-_- 14 hours ago | 31 comments

glibc 2.41 has been causing problems for Linux gaming (gamingonlinux.com)
It seems a recent update to glibc with version 2.41 release at the end of January, has been causing all sorts of problems for Linux gamers that have pulled in the update (mostly on rolling-release distributions).

Linux, Gaming, Software Updates

4 points by bpierre 1 day ago | 0 comments

Pokémon Go Maker Niantic in Talks to Sell Games Unit to Scopely (bloomberg.com)
Niantic Inc., the company behind the 2016 hit Pokémon Go, is in talks to sell its video-game business to Saudi Arabia-owned Scopely Inc., according to several people familiar with the discussions.

Gaming, Acquisitions, Saudi Arabia

6 points by tlyleung 2 days ago | 2 comments

Steve Jackson Games Is Bringing the Fighting Fantasy Books to the US (sjgames.com)
AUSTIN, TX 10/17/24 – In 1982, British game designers Sir Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson introduced Fighting Fantasy, a revolutionary set of solo adventure books that combined nonlinear narratives with dice-rolling tabletop RPG mechanics. Now, this fantastical, multi-million-selling book series returns to the United States thanks to an historic 50-book publishing collaboration with Steve Jackson Games. The first books in the series will be available in early 2025.

Gaming, Books, Publishing, History

103 points by mattl 2 days ago | 62 comments

Marvel Rivals Director and Others Laid Off (kotaku.com)
Marvel Rivals’ game director and others from the development team behind the hit hero shooter have been laid off.

Gaming, Layoffs, Marvel, Mobile Games

18 points by bob1029 2 days ago | 6 comments

Valve releases Team Fortress 2 code (github.com/ValveSoftware)
This commit does not belong to any branch on this repository, and may belong to a fork outside of the repository.

Gaming, Open Source, Valve

1807 points by davikr 2 days ago | 386 comments

AMD's game-changing Strix Halo, formerly Ryzen AI Max, poses for new die shots (tomshardware.com)

AMD, Processors, Computer Hardware, Gaming

30 points by rbanffy 2 days ago | 19 comments

The Fall of FiveM (fivem.team)
Behind the friendly, smiling, snail mascot of FiveM - you'll find many dark secrets.

Gaming, Online Communities, Controversy, Hacking, Security

71 points by ChocolateGod 2 days ago | 19 comments

Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 Through GeForce RTX 5080/5090 GPU Compute Performance (phoronix.com)
Complementing the recent Linux GPU benchmarks of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 and GeForce RTX 5090 looking at both the Linux / Steam Play gaming performance as well as GPU compute and other areas, in today's testing is a wide multi-generation look seeing how the NVIDIA GeForce performance has evolved going back to the GeForce GTX 980 Maxwell GPUs up through the newest GeForce RTX 5080/5090 graphics cards.

Graphics Cards, Performance, Gaming, Linux, Benchmarks

27 points by mfiguiere 3 days ago | 15 comments

CodeWeavers Hiring More Developers to Work on Wine and Valve's Proton (phoronix.com)
The friends at CodeWeavers have relayed work that they are looking to hire multiple Wine developers to join their paid team working on upstream Wine as well as their CrossOver products, Valve's Proton downstream for Steam Play, and related Wine-based tech.

Hiring, Open Source, Gaming, Software, Linux

57 points by speckx 3 days ago | 13 comments

Fortnite: Cheating is never a winning strat (twitter.com)

Fortnite, Gaming, Cheating

8 points by haunter 3 days ago | 0 comments

Hybrid e-reader game console design puts a delightful twist on a retro format (creativebloq.com)

Gaming, Design, Retro Gaming, Technology, Hardware

5 points by FiddlerClamp 3 days ago | 2 comments

Grim Fandango Puzzle Document (1996) [pdf] (jmac.org)

Gaming, Retro Gaming, Documents, Puzzle Games

192 points by krykp 4 days ago | 37 comments

Half-Life 2 and Dishonored art lead Viktor Antonov has died (eurogamer.net)
Half-Life 2 art director and Dishonored designer Viktor Antonov has died aged just 52.

Video Games, Gaming, Art, Design, Obituaries

595 points by Trasmatta 4 days ago | 123 comments

Steam now warns you if an 'early access' PC game might be abandoned (theverge.com)
Steam’s early access program helps small to medium-sized developers get an idea off the ground, but not every game actually does. Now, Valve has a notice designed to warn Steam users when they visit an early access game’s store page if it’s been a minute since the last update.

Gaming, Steam, Early Access, Video Games

10 points by 01-_- 4 days ago | 1 comments

Supersight: Mod for DOS game stunts that increasing the field of view (marnetto.net)
This page contains my mods of Stunts (aka 4D Sports Driving). I’ll be discussing the changes (under my username HerrNove) in the Stunts forum.

Gaming, Mods, DOS Games

21 points by LowLevelMahn 4 days ago | 8 comments

Create a QubesOS Gaming HVM with GPU PCI passthrough (2023) (qubes-os.org)

Virtualization, Gaming, Security, Hardware, QubesOS

92 points by transpute 5 days ago | 28 comments

Nintendo Obtains New Anti-Palworld Patent and Seeks Even More (gamerant.com)

Gaming, Patents, Nintendo

70 points by jarsin 5 days ago | 86 comments

Diablo hackers uncovered a speedrun scandal (arstechnica.com)
For years, Maciej "Groobo" Maselewski stood as the undisputed champion of Diablo speedrunning. His 3-minute, 12-second Sorceror run looked all but unbeatable thanks to a combination of powerful (and allowable) glitch exploits along with what seemed like some unbelievable luck in the game's randomly generated dungeon.

Gaming, Cheating, Speedrunning, Diablo

270 points by pitwin 5 days ago | 156 comments

The 20 year old PSP can now connect to WPA2 WiFi Networks (wololo.net)
Acid_Snake and the ARK Development team have released a significant update to the ARK custom Firmware for the Sony PSP. Custom Firmware now allows the Playstation Portable to connect to WPA2 encrypted Wifi networks. This is thanks to the recently released wpa2psp plugin, created by developer Moment and published on the PSP Homebrew discord.

Gaming, Hardware, Software, Security, Retro Gaming

449 points by zdw 6 days ago | 123 comments

Little Sisyphus A physics-based platformer for the NES (pubby.games)
A physics-based platformer about rolling a ball to the top of a mountain, on the NES! You're going to fall, and fall, and fall some more, but it will all be worth it at the top. Just don't forget to collect 80 souls on the way up!

Gaming, NES, Platformers, Retro Gaming

126 points by colinprince 6 days ago | 7 comments

Q2DOS – Quake 2 backported to MS-DOS (toastednet.org)
Quake II for MS-DOS

Gaming, Retro Computing, Operating Systems

118 points by jsheard 6 days ago | 79 comments

Alexandre Mutel a.k.a. xoofx is leaving Unity (mastodon.social)

Gaming, Unity, Developers

9 points by bj-rn 6 days ago | 0 comments

Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10 (pcguide.com)
Microsoft has already announced that after October 14, 2025, they will no longer provide free software updates, technical assistance, or security fixes for Windows 10. This means that in just a few months, Windows 10 will join the list of unsupported operating systems alongside Windows 8.1 and Windows 7. However, a significant portion of users, especially gamers, are not willing to switch to Windows 11, at least not yet.

Windows 10, Gaming, Operating Systems, Microsoft, Steam

83 points by Sontho 6 days ago | 147 comments

Final Fantasy iOS game shuts down over unfixable bug (theverge.com)
Square Enix has shut down the iOS version of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles and removed it from the App Store following an unfixable bug that blocked people from accessing content they had paid for.

Gaming, Mobile Games, iOS, Bugs, Final Fantasy

29 points by latexr 7 days ago | 4 comments

Google Confirms Android XR Allows Passthrough Camera Access (roadtovr.com)
Developers of mixed reality games have been clamoring for passthrough camera access on Quest for a while now, something now-departed Meta VP of XR Mark Rabkin said would come with the release of a new camera Passthrough API sometime in early 2025. Now, Google has confirmed that Android XR includes access to passthrough cameras, letting developers fine tune their mixed reality experiences from the get-go.

Android, Virtual Reality, Mixed Reality, Gaming, Technology

5 points by LorenDB 7 days ago | 0 comments

SteamOS Comes to the Lenovo Legion Go S – Is This a Steam Machines 2.0 Moment? (boilingsteam.com)
At the CES 2025 in January, Lenovo has announced the upcoming release of a SteamOS based device under its Legion Go branding, following the first device they released a couple of years back that had a huge screen and Switch-like design with removable controllers.

Gaming, Steam, Hardware, CES

45 points by ekianjo 7 days ago | 0 comments

Publish Your Gaussian Splats with SuperSplat (playcanvas.com)
Today, we are announcing a major update of SuperSplat, the open source platform for editing and publishing 3D Gaussian Splats.

3D Graphics, Open Source, Software, Gaming

56 points by ovenchips 7 days ago | 11 comments

LookAway now has posture reminders, and deep focus apps and gaming detection (lookaway.app)
LookAway can now remind you to correct your posture and blink at healthy intervals, pause while you're in deep focus or gaming. It's also smart enough to wait for you to finish typing before reminding you to take a break.

Productivity, Health, Software, Gaming

3 points by _kush 8 days ago | 0 comments

Intel's Battlemage Architecture (chipsandcheese.com)
Intel’s Alchemist architecture gave the company a foot in the door to the high performance graphics segment. The Arc A770 proved to be a competent first effort, able to run many games with credible performance. Now, Intel is passing the torch to a new graphics architecture, named Battlemage.

Graphics Cards, Intel, Hardware, Gaming

212 points by ksec 9 days ago | 145 comments