Hacker News with Generative AI: Video Games

Some novelists are becoming video game writers – and vice-versa (theguardian.com)
While the novel remains a high-status cultural form, video game writing is still seen as a throwaway art – despite some of the biggest names in fiction being involved
Writing, Video Games, Literature, Culture
11 points by ilamont 2 days ago | 0 comments
'It is touching and stupid': Katamari Damacy creator on his new game (pcgamer.com)
Video Games, Game Development, Interviews
19 points by ramesh31 3 days ago | 0 comments
Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2 [video] (youtube.com)
Video Games, Gaming, Trailers
12 points by carlos-menezes 3 days ago | 4 comments
History of “Adventure” for the Atari 2600 (atariarchive.org)
Of all the original games Atari put out for the VCS, Adventure may be the one that most people are familiar with today.
Video Games, Atari, History
107 points by coldpie 4 days ago | 24 comments
How Riot Games is fighting the war against video game hackers (techcrunch.com)
For as long as there have been video games, there have been people willing to find ways to cheat.
Video Games, Cheating, Security, Gaming Industry
59 points by badmonster 5 days ago | 150 comments
Tippy Coco: A Free, Open-Source Game Inspired by Slime Volleyball (tippycoco.com)
Waking the beasts... Game is ready. Press [spacebar] to launch.
Video Games, Open Source, Sports, Volleyball
70 points by stefankuehnel 5 days ago | 16 comments
Bethesda Thinks Fan Remaster of Oblivion Is 'Very Special' and Supports It (kotaku.com)
Last week, Xbox and Bethesda shadow-dropped a fancy remaster of 2006 open-world RPG The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and it promptly took over the world. However, it also made some people worried that a long-in-development fan mod which also aims to recreate the aging RPG would face legal issues or be overshadowed when it arrives later this year. That doesn’t seem to be the case as Bethesda themselves seem very excited for the project.
Video Games, Gaming, Remakes, Fan Projects, Bethesda
101 points by hn_acker 6 days ago | 87 comments
Vuntra City (vuntracity.com)
Vuntra City is an immersive city exploration game where every building can be entered.
Video Games, City Exploration, Virtual Reality
37 points by ibobev 6 days ago | 15 comments
Speedrunning and Modding the Incredibles: Rise of the Underminer (farlow.dev)
In this post, I’ll talk about reverse engineering and modding rotu in order to optimize a speedrun.
Video Games, Speedrunning, Modding
78 points by farlow 6 days ago | 7 comments
Space Invaders on your wrist: the glory years of Casio video game watches (theguardian.com)
Their tech may have been primitive, but for 80s schoolchildren of a certain kind they had a glamour to equal any modern iPhone
Video Games, Technology, History, Nostalgia
40 points by bookofjoe 7 days ago | 8 comments
Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 source code isn't lost (videogamer.com)
Earlier this week, we released a story that the source code and in-development assets for both Fallout and Fallout 2 were lost.
Video Games, Source Code, Fallout
41 points by danso 7 days ago | 1 comments
Grand Theft Auto VI Is Now Coming May 26, 2026 (rockstargames.com)
Video Games, Gaming, Release Dates
47 points by ChrisArchitect 7 days ago | 55 comments
Grand Theft Auto VI gets pushed back to May 26, 2026 (arstechnica.com)
Rockstar's highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto VI will finally launch on May 26, 2026, Rockstar Games said in a Friday morning announcement.
Video Games, Delays
18 points by stalfosknight 7 days ago | 21 comments
Clair Obscur Metacritic user score (metacritic.com)
Video Games, Reviews, Metacritic
61 points by tyleo 7 days ago | 64 comments
We May Be About to Lose a Powerful Force in Video Game Preservation (timeextension.com)
"Currently, in our bank account, we have £2100 (around $2800). It's not even enough to pay the rent for one month," explains Joseph Redon, head of the Japanese Game Preservation Society. He's describing the end of the non-profit organisation he set up in 2011 with the aim of properly safeguarding Japanese gaming history before it is lost forever.
Video Games, Preservation, Non-Profit Organizations, Japan
41 points by arm 7 days ago | 1 comments
Polygon Sold to Valnet and Hit with Mass Layoffs (kotaku.com)
The video game website Polygon has been sold to click-farm powerhouse Valnet and much of its masthead has been laid off, Kotaku has learned.
Video Games, Media, Business, Acquisitions, Layoffs
16 points by jmsflknr 8 days ago | 2 comments
Game preservationists say Switch2 GameKey Cards are disheartening but inevitable (videogameschronicle.com)
Game preservationists have been giving their opinions on Nintendo Switch 2’s new Game-Key Cards.
Game Preservation, Video Games, Nintendo, Hardware
72 points by haunter 8 days ago | 129 comments
Electronic Arts, worth $37B, lays off hundreds for 3rd year in a row (sfgate.com)
Video Games, Business, Layoffs
17 points by c420 9 days ago | 0 comments
Creating the Commodore 64: The Engineers' Story (ieee.org)
In January 1981, a handful of semiconductor engineers at MOS Technology in West Chester, Pa., a subsidiary of Commodore International Ltd., began designing a graphics chip and a sound chip to sell to whoever wanted to make “the world’s best video game.”
Computer History, Engineering, Hardware, Retro Computing, Video Games
96 points by amichail 9 days ago | 7 comments
GPL violation in Tomba! Special Edition? (github.com/notaz)
Open Source, Software, Video Games, Legal Issues
13 points by weird_trousers 11 days ago | 1 comments
Minecraft: ‘We've spent five years rebuilding London’ (bbc.co.uk)
A group of Minecraft players have set an ambitious task of recreating the United Kingdom in the video game, including the entirety of London.
Video Games, Minecraft, London, Architecture
4 points by n1b0m 11 days ago | 0 comments
Is open-world design making games worse? (dadrian.io)
Around the time that Elden Ring came out, I had the thought that it seemed like AAA games were getting worse, especially post-pandemic. Elden Ring was both open-world and loudly heralded as one of the best games in years; however it seemed like, in general, there were more and more open-world games and more games in large franchises (rather than new IP). Unlike Elden Ring, on average, I felt like these games were not very good.
Video Games, Game Design
12 points by dadrian 11 days ago | 14 comments
Mind-blowing graphical tricks in classic games – Your questions answered (youtube.com)
Video Games, Graphics, Retro Gaming
6 points by bane 13 days ago | 0 comments
Colossal Cave Adventure (1976) (github.com/wh0am1-dev)
Original source code, written in Fortran, from the very first text adventure game in the videogames history (1976).
Video Games, Programming, History, Retro Gaming, Fortran
69 points by shakna 13 days ago | 33 comments
Things I learned about software and startups by playing video games (ghost.io)
In 2005, Steve Jobs told the graduating class of Stanford a now-famous story about connecting the dots - a story about the calligraphy courses he took in his college years, which later influenced the industry-leading digital fonts that shipped with the Macintosh.
Software, Startups, Video Games, Personal Development
28 points by mprast 14 days ago | 7 comments
The VTech Socratic Method (leadedsolder.com)
We’ve had a lot of fun with VTech’s computers in the past on this blog. Usually, they’re relatively spartan computers with limited functionality, but they did make something very interesting in the late 80s. The Socrates is their hybrid video game console/computer design from 1988, and today we’ll start tearing into it.
Retro Computing, Video Games, Computers, Hardware
84 points by zdw 15 days ago | 13 comments
Bethesda announces remastered version of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (youtube.com)
Video Games, Remasters, Bethesda
52 points by carlos-menezes 17 days ago | 35 comments
Cyberpunk 2077 on Switch 2 uses DLSS, making it the first Switch 2 game (videogameschronicle.com)
Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition is the first Switch 2 game that’s been officially confirmed to use Nvidia’s DLSS upscaling.
Cyberpunk 2077, Nintendo Switch, Video Games, DLSS
11 points by techlust 18 days ago | 7 comments
Neocron (wikipedia.org)
Neocron is a 2002 post-apocalyptic[1] cyberpunk[2] massively multiplayer online role playing game (MMORPG) developed by Reakktor Media GmbH (based in Hannover, Germany[3]) and published by cdv Software Entertainment.
Video Games, Cyberpunk, MMORPGs
6 points by doener 19 days ago | 1 comments
The 'freaky and unpleasant' world when video games leak into the physical realm (bbc.com)
Video games are the biggest form of entertainment in the world, but sometimes they bleed into people's lives offline in surprising and disturbing ways.
Video Games, Entertainment, Technology, Society, Culture
29 points by l3x 20 days ago | 53 comments