Tools & Geartechcrunch.com
Google's Playground lets anyone make a game, one token at a time
Google opened Playground on October 7, an experimental site where you describe a game and its AI builds it.
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Drama & Failurespcgamer.com
A developer pulled its horror drinking game's demo, afraid AI vibe coders would clone it
Alliance Arts was going to release a public Steam demo of Drunken Goddess Reflux on October 19, and then it canceled it.
Weird Techengadget.com
Four Gemini agents beat Minecraft on their own, and died 605 times doing it
Four AI agents just beat Minecraft with nobody steering.
Hacks & Buildspagetable.com
Super Mario 64 moved onto the dining table
Michael Steil has turned Super Mario 64 into a living diorama for Apple Vision Pro.
Hacks & Buildskennedn.com
A maker finally finished an Xbox 360 project from nine years ago
The blogger behind Kennedn's Blog bought a Matrix CoolRunner in 2017, a modchip built to hit an Xbox 360 with a pulse of about 100 nanoseconds, and shelved the project when it didn't work out.
Retrogithub.com
Duke Nukem 3D now fits on a tiny RP2350 board
Duke Nukem 3D now runs on a microcontroller.
Retrohackaday.com
A tool called Wafel checks whether your Wii U storage is failing
The Wii U's weak spot is its internal storage, and a tool called Wafel Installer can now test it from the console's own web browser.
Retrogithub.com
You can play PS2 games in a browser now, recompiled from the original code
PlayStation 2 games are running in a web browser, no emulator attached.
Weird Techcedardb.com
Somebody ported the original Doom to SQL
Lukas Vogel at CedarDB ported the original 1993 Doom to SQL, the language most of us use for pulling rows out of databases.
Hacks & Buildsphoronix.com
A Valve engineer made decade-old Radeon cards up to 30% faster on Linux
Timur Kristóf, of Valve's Linux graphics driver team, moved old AMD graphics cards from the legacy Radeon driver to the modern AMDGPU kernel driver, and he presented that work in Toronto at XDC 2026.