You might notice eerily familiar AI-generated images in your Story suggestions on the Facebook app lately—because Facebook has been automatically creating AI-generated versions of photos from users' camera rolls.If you try creating a new Story on Facebook right now, you could get a pop-up asking if you want to "Allow cloud processing to get creative ideas made for you from your camera roll." TechCrunch has screenshots of what this pop-up...

Tenna, the CRT-headed game show host antagonist of Deltarune chapter 3, first showed up in a videogame this year—but Deltarune creator Toby Fox first started working on the character all the way back in 2016. Fox recently said so in a social media post where he quoted himself of nearly a decade ago trying to learn 3D animation.About "Tenna." I invented this character a long time ago. In 2016, I...

Time for some good news for a change: After blowing past two million copies sold in just two days, the devs of climbing game Peak have shown some love to fellow mountaineering sim Cairn, and it seems to have paid off big time.The mutual love fest began on X, "The Everything App," with Cairn developers The Game Bakers showing a clip featuring Peak's Bing Bong implemented as an item in...

Blendo Games has publicly released the source code of its latest game, Skin Deep, encouraging other developers to build more stealth games in its footsteps—or at least to take a look at the sick game engine it built. I, for one, am shocked by a specific thing about it: It runs on a core of idTech4, which you may recognize as the engine behind Doom 3."The original idTech4 was made...

If you've been dreading the day Windows 10 officially loses support, coming up in October, you can still buy yourself a little more time before switching to Windows 11. Microsoft has announced an update to its Extended Security Updates (ESU) program for Windows 10, which gives users an extra year of updates for a $30 fee. At least, that used to be the fee. Now Microsoft is offering an option...

Wreckfest 2's early access launch may have been smaller than a Fiat 500 after being run over by a monster truck, but developer Bugbear has been hard at work buffing out the sequel's bodywork since it launched back earlier this year. In May, the game received its first content update adding extra cars and tracks. Now, a second major patch folds in yet more of both, while also tuning up...

If you're looking for an exploration game that's less about clearing millions of icons, and more about finding your own path through a world filled with mysteries, Sable is the game for you. Shedworks' sci-fi coming of age story encourages you to take the world at your own pace, picking a direction and enjoying what happens along the way. It's a less stressful, more zen approach to open world design,...

Like a bespectacled boffin dangling a piece of cheese over the cage of a two-headed lab rat, Abiotic Factor has been teasing me with its 1.0 release for a while. Developer Deep Field Games initially broached the subject back in April as it detailed its upcoming Cold Fusion update, before confirming Cold Fusion is the 1.0 update earlier this month.Now, Deep Field has pinned down a specific date upon which...

When Owlcat left behind the bloated Pathfinder system, a numberhead ruleset that held back the otherwise excellent Kingmaker and Wrath of the Righteous, I rejoiced. Finally, with Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader, they'd have the opportunity to focus on their strengths: storytelling and player freedom.But while Rogue Trader did have at least a couple of acts' worth of great writing and a neat warp exploration system, the rules were an absolute...

Not too long ago, Victorian stealth-em-up Gloomwood received a "research update" that lets players study dissected monsters and then inject their sweet juice directly into your veins for temporary powers. More recently, the early access immsim's latest update has expanded on those research options.Spending time at your lab gazing into the abyss now grants permanent passive bonuses. You can dissect crowmen for a holstered speed boost, bat barbers for added...