Year: 2026

Pokémon Go creator Niantic is using players' augmented reality data to help train delivery robots. Now rebranded as Niantic Spatial, the company has joined forces with robotic startup Coco to help its fleet of 1000 suitcase-sized delivery vehicles trundle safely through busy city streets — just as Pikachu might, if […]

Pokémon Go creator Niantic is using players' augmented reality data to help train delivery robots. Now rebranded as Niantic Spatial, the company has joined forces with robotic startup Coco to help its fleet of 1000 suitcase-sized delivery vehicles trundle safely through busy city streets — just as Pikachu might, if […]

Jeff Kaplan, the former boss of the Overwatch team, has some short and candid advice for people who complain about games they have not and will never play: "shut the f*** up." Speaking via a lengthy livestream, in which Kaplan showed off his work-in-progress new project The Legend of California, […]

Former Bethesda game tester Colin McInerney once discovered so many crashes in Fallout 4 that the entire organization received emails saying, "somebody found four crashes in a single morning." McInerney, now at Am I Your Beast developer Strange Scaffold, worked at Bethesda as a games tester during college, and said […]

KPop Demon Hunters fans have blasted the "rude" decision by the Oscars to cut off Golden songwriter Yu Han Lee's acceptance speech after winning the Academy Award for best original song. The smash hit animation movie won two Oscars last night, including Best Animated Feature Film, but saw one of […]