Professor Charles Anthony Richard Hoare, known as Tony, has died at the age of 92. He invented the Quicksort algorithm after a bet with his boss, devised Hoare logic for assessing program correctness, and co-designed ALGOL W, which later became the basis for Pascal. Hoare won the Turing Award in

Despite almost 4,000 hours in Path of Exile, I've never had a raw Mirror of Kalandra drop—the game's single rarest item. The new Mirage league might finally break that streak by changing how currency drops work and giving players fresh ways to farm high-value

At GDC in San Francisco, former Blizzard chief creative officer Rob Pardo closed his keynote with a clear message for industry leaders: if your developers have already delivered a success, the best way to repeat it is by keeping those developers on the payroll. "If you create a game

Live-service games keep meeting Highguard's fate — arriving in a gorgeous bubble of hype only to get popped and delisted. But Dead by Daylight has avoided that fate. Behaviour Interactive is celebrating 10 years of the asymmetrical multiplayer at Game Developer Conference 2026, where creative director Dave Richard and

Shadowstone, the Sunderfolk spinoff from Secret Door and Dreamhaven, has kicked off a public playtest after a surprise reveal at the Future Games Show Spring Showcase. The playtest is available now and will run until the game launches into early access. Players can sample the game in solo or multiplayer

Jeff Kaplan left Blizzard Entertainment in 2021 after 19 years and has been quietly working on a new game. In a five-hour conversation on the Lex Fridman podcast he revisited his time at Blizzard, including his work on World of Warcraft and Overwatch, and explained what pushed him to leave.

At the 2026 Game Developers Conference, Valve presented an upbeat picture of Steam: user growth is exponential, releases are up and developers have more tools. The company showed a graph saying nearly 6,000 games earned at least $100,000 on the platform in 2025, a 30% increase from 2020

Tinder unveiled a slate of new products at its Tinder Sparks conference, including an astrology mode, AI photo enhancements, and an Events tab aimed at encouraging offline dates. CEO Spencer Rascoff said the company must respond to changing tastes and conceded it "can't put our heads in

The Galaxy S26 Ultra is Samsung's top-tier smartphone this year, featuring an agentic AI, improved night-mode video and a new Privacy Display. Samsung is offering up to $720 off with an instant trade-in credit; if you don’t have a trade-in you can still get up to $150

Thanks to our friends at HyperX and the Future Games Show, we have five HyperX Cloud Alpha 2 Wireless headsets to give away. To enter, fill in the form below — it's that simple. The Cloud Alpha 2 Wireless is a premium headset retailing for $299.99 / £254.99.

On March 11 Bungie released update 1.0.0.4 for Marathon, the game’s first major post-launch tweak. It doesn’t add new maps or characters, but the patch includes a range of adjustments aimed at making runs a bit easier while preserving the extraction shooter’s bite. The

The Man-machine Integration Design and Analysis System (MIDAS) was a 3-D rapid prototyping human performance modeling and simulation environment that facilitated the design, visualization, and computational evaluation of complex man-machine system concepts in simulated operational environments. It combined graphical equipment prototyping, dynamic simulation and human performance modeling with the aim

A modding team is porting Arkane’s Dark Messiah of Might & Magic to the latest version of Valve’s Source engine with support from both Valve and Ubisoft. Arkane originally released the game in 2006; it became known for combining stealth, magic and brutally physical melee combat. David Wiltos

The PNY GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16 GB OC ships with a high boost clock and a solid build. Its triple-fan, triple-slot cooler keeps fan noise low, and while the card runs a little hotter than some rivals—generally around the 70 °C mark—it remains comfortably cool in everyday

Slay the Spire 2's engine choice has shaped the studio's approach to piracy. By 2024 Mega Crit had spent two years building the roguelike in Unity, but the studio switched to Godot after Unity announced it would start charging developers for downloads. Godot is open-source, and

Theres a phrase that keeps coming up in discussions about Crimson Desert: "It looks too good to be true." PS5 and Xbox players in particular have been skeptical, since you don't have to look much further than Cyberpunk 2077 for a game that looked great

Microsoft appears to have removed all references to the “This is an Xbox” campaign from its Xbox Wire site. Game Developer noted the original announcement now leads to a 404 page and a tied quiz has disappeared. The timing follows weeks after Xbox head Phil Spencer announced his retirement and

David Tremblay, who once held the record for earning the most PlayStation Trophies, has been permanently banned from the PlayStation Network. His PSN account, dav1d_123, was "permanently suspended" earlier this week over alleged rule violations. Tremblay blames a hacker and Sony’s "incompetent" support and

Google Maps is introducing two new features: Ask Gemini, which brings conversational answers inside Maps, and Immersive Navigation, a redesigned driving view that changes how routes are presented. Ask Gemini lets you ask Maps conversational questions instead of searching elsewhere. Sample queries include: "Is there a public tennis court

Chained Echoes was funded on Kickstarter in early 2019 and released digitally on December 8, 2022. The campaign met stretch goals for physical editions on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PC. Matthias Linda, the solo developer behind Umami Tiger, announced he is terminating his business relationship with First Press Games

Arc Raiders sits in the awkward position of being a popular PvPvE game while some players strongly dislike the PvP element, and developer Embark Studios has encountered that reaction before. Production director Caio Braga said during a Game Developer Conference 2026 panel that PvP has been controversial from the moment

Valve has replied to the New York attorney general’s lawsuit over paid loot boxes and item trading in games like Counter-Strike 2 and DOTA 2 with a lengthy statement posted on Steam. The company defended how its loot boxes work, comparing them to physical products such as baseball card

As of March 12, the Renpho MorphoScan Nova Smart Scale is on sale at Amazon for $189.98, down from $233.99 — nearly 20% off and the lowest price on record. The discount is a Lightning deal and will disappear when the timer runs out. The scale uses eight high-sensitivity

At GDC 2026, Jason Ronald outlined Microsoft’s next console, codenamed Project Helix. He said Helix will support path tracing and machine learning-based frame generation, run on a custom AMD SOC with a large increase in raytracing performance, and include a next-generation version of AMD’s FSR upscaling, Neural Texture

After moving from a one‑bedroom apartment to a three‑story condo, my old Wi‑Fi setup couldn't cover every floor. A previous mesh system, the TP‑Link Deco BE25, improved coverage, so I tested the newer TP‑Link Deco BE77 to see how much further things could