CD Projekt RED has reportedly been working with Shantae developer WayForward on a Cyberpunk: Edgerunners project codenamed Gemini. The rumor comes from MP1st, which discovered the news from the portfolio of a former WayForward developer, who listed this project as in development as of 2025-2026. Of course, there's no telling whether the concept moved forward or was scrapped, as is often the case in game studios. Still, the few details available point to a "rollback-driven" 2.5D beat'em up, which could have fit the anime style of Edgerunners. WayForward also has some experience in the genre thanks to the River City […]

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At last week's Unreal Fest in Chicago, Epic Games unveiled the integration of AI tools like Claude and Gemini into Unreal Engine 5.8 (and the upcoming Unreal Engine 6) through an MCP server. As with all things related to AI, the news received a somewhat mixed response from the development and gaming community, especially as fears of "AI slop" become rampant. In an interview with IGN, Epic Games founder, CEO, and majority shareholder Tim Sweeney admitted that there's the risk of that, but likened it to the "asset flip" of this new generation of games, asserting that low quality games […]

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During the State of Unreal 2026 presentation, streamed live from Chicago's Unreal Fest, Epic Games announced the launch of Unreal Engine 5.8 and also talked in depth about the upcoming Unreal Engine 6, first teased last month during the Rocket League Championship Series 2026 in Paris. Founder, CEO, and majority shareholder Tim Sweeney took the stage to explain that UE6 is about evolving how games are shipped and operated, not just improving rendering or world-building: The vision is that if you build things once in Unreal Engine 6, then you can have a game you can ship everywhere, including the […]

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Apple has established a sprawling and intricate compute architecture, one that ropes in Google and NVIDIA to paper over its embarrassing AI-related shortcomings. Even so, Apple's WWDC 2026 keynote answered as many questions as raised new ones. Thankfully, the Cupertino-based tech giant is now issuing clarifications at the speed of lightning, resolving lingering uncertainties on a war footing of sorts. Apple craftily obfuscates Google's contributions to its new Apple Intelligence architecture, taking pains to point out its own technologies at the core of this new paradigm We already know that Apple Intelligence consists of a combo of on-device and cloud-based […]

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Apple's new Siri, empowered by a custom Google Gemini model in the cloud, was supposed to run on Apple silicon, or so the maker of iPhones had assured not too long ago. Yet, Apple has struggled to accommodate Google's behemoth of a model on its own servers, forcing the Cupertino-based tech giant to resort to a NVIDIA GPU-based band-aid of sorts to safeguard at least a shred of its privacy-related credentials, all the while hosting the Siri-enabling Gemini model on Google's servers. Apple has to host the new Siri-enabling behemoth of a model on Google's servers for optimal inference, and […]

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Intel has just confirmed that its chips will be powering Googlebook, a premium & powerful laptop that combines Android & ChromeOS under one hood. Google's Googlebook Laptops Will Be Powered By Intel CPUs In Premium & Powerful Designs A few hours ago, Google announced its brand new laptop lineup at its annual I/O event, called Googlebook. The new laptops are aimed to be premium and powerful devices designed for AI intelligence, such as Gemini. While Google isn't revealing a whole lot of details at the moment, what we know about Googlebook laptops so far is that they will offer a […]

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Back in March 2026, Square Enix and Google revealed a new partnership to bring a Gemini AI-powered NPC to Dragon Quest X called Chatty Slimey. The NPC companion was described as a "conversational AI" companion who can aid the player with questions they have in the game, but as reported by Japanese outlet Toyo Keizai (spotted and translated by Automaton), Dragon Quest series creator Yuji Hori hopes that the AI NPC can be more that just a tool for players to utilize. Hori reportedly holds this hope not just for the upcoming Chatty Slimey companion, but for all future AI-powered […]

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Apple and Google are seemingly entering into a symbiotic relationship, where the former has used its unparalleled financial heft to gain access to the latter's very capable Gemini AI models. And these mutual synergies were apparently hefty enough to merit a dedicated shout-out and prime airtime for Apple at Google's Cloud Next 2026 event. Apple has just become one of Google Cloud's most important customers Google used Apple as a very important and lucrative prop to showcase the strength of its Gemini AI models at the just-concluded Google Cloud Next 2026 event. This comes as the Cupertino-based tech giant recently […]

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Remember Fortnite's AI-powered Darth Vader that led SAG-AFTRA to file an unfair labor practice charge against Epic Games? Well, the studio has now revealed the latest evolution of the technology. Originally described as a "Persona device", the tech is now simply called "conversations", but the core remains the same: Fortnite developers can use conversations to create AI-powered characters with personalities and voices that can talk, react, respond to player actions, and even influence gameplay. Released with Fortnite's v40.20 update (launched on April 16), it is available in the Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) and allows island creators to build AI-powered […]

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Google and Square Enix announced a partnership over the weekend at a press event to bring the search engine's proprietary AI, Gemini, into Dragon Quest X via a "conversational AI" companion called Chatty Slimey, powered by Google's Gemini. Spotted by VGC, Square Enix's head of development, Takashi Anzai told Japanese publication Sankei that "new players won't feel lonely wondering where to start playing; it will become their own personal companion." Sankei added that "When a player talks to Slimey using the chat funciton, it automatically generates voices and engages in conversation. The AI also analyzes information from the game screen, […]

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Apple may not be leading on AI at the moment, but that has not stopped the tech giant from profiting off the mania around generative artificial intelligence apps. What's more, Apple's haul from AI apps is only expected to grow in 2026, as per a new analysis. Apple collected $900 million in fees from generative AI apps in 2025, and is all set to increase its haul to over $1 billion in 2026 As per the data from AppMagic, Apple collected $900 million in fees from generative AI apps in 2025, with 75 percent of this haul coming from OpenAI's […]

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