AI horror, a dinosaur platformer and other new indie games worth checking out

Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space. Even though it's a truncated week in the US with the long holiday weekend, there's still been a spate of new re [...]

X to require AI labels on armed conflict videos from paid creators, citing ‘times of war’

X will suspend creators from its revenue sharing program if they post AI-generated videos depicting armed conflicts without disclosing they were made with AI. Head of product Nikita Bier announced the [...]

Dinosaur Polo Club has released a new co-op game and it's free

Two pieces of good gaming news today. First: Dinosaur Polo Club has shadow dropped a brand new game today. Second, it's available for free on both PC and Mac from Itch.io. The project is called R [...]

Playdate Season 2 review: Tiny Turnip and Chance's Lucky Escape

It's hard to believe that Playdate Season Two is almost over already, but here we are in week five with just one more drop of new games left to go after this. In the latest batch, we got the clim [...]

Nvidia researchers urge the AI industry to rethink agentic AI in favor of smaller, more efficient LLMs

Nvidia researchers say the AI industry is too focused on oversized large language models (LLMs) for agent systems, a strategy they argue is both economically and environmentally unsustainable.<br / [...]

ChatGPT users research products but won't buy there, forcing OpenAI to rethink its commerce strategy

OpenAI wanted to turn ChatGPT into a shopping destination, but only about a dozen retailers signed up and users weren't buying. Now the company is handing off purchases to app partners like Insta [...]

Zhipu AI's GLM-5.1 can rethink its own coding strategy across hundreds of iterations

Zhipu AI has released its new GLM-5.1 model under an MIT license. The model can reportedly refine its own approach over hundreds of iterations when tackling coding tasks.<br /> The article Zhipu [...]

Playdate Season 2 review: Fulcrum Defender, Dig! Dig! Dino! and Blippo+

Playdate Season Two is here, bringing with it two new games for the quirky yellow handheld every week until July 3. And if the first two titles are any indication of what this season will be like, it& [...]

The creators of Mixtape want to make a great hangout video game

For most adventure games, the long-term goal can often focus on solving a grand mystery or chasing a lost artifact of the past. But for the upcoming Mixtape, from publisher Annapurna Interactive, it s [...]