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Agis announces The Platform, a next-gen cross-device application to demo at Gamescom 2026

Agis has announced The Platform, a next-generation cross-device application for creating, sharing, and playing user-generated content.

ZOOM Platform announced You Are Empty: Absolute Edition - a revival of the retro Ukrainian FPS

You Are Empty originally released in 2006, and now it is returning thanks to ZOOM Platform with You Are Empty: Absolute Edition. Read the full article on GamingOnLinux .

Newly Launched Questly (A Discovery Platform) Is Tinder For Retro Games

If you're like me, you love retro games. And even after writing for Retro Dodo for 6+ years now, I still find myself coming across new and unknown games that I never knew existed. There are just so many remarkable gems to explore, but finding them is no

DragonSword: Awakening coming to a Nintendo platform (UPDATE)

Taking a stab at the Nintendo side of things

Microsoft's blobby AI companion has begun his ascent to the heavens to join Clippy and Cortana. Okay, he's being booted to another platform

See you later, Mico. We literally hardly knew you.

The Voice of The Witcher's Geralt Says He'd Sue Every Single AI Platform With His Voice on It 'Into the Ground' if He Could

Doug Cockle, the voice behind The Witcher’s Geralt, has hit out at AI platforms that feature his voice, saying he’d sue them if he could.

Unity credits AI advertising platform for driving its 'best quarter ever'

Unity's revenue grew 24 percent year-over-year thanks to revenue from Unity Vector AI.

Project Neon: Platform Release Schedule

The awesome new “modern retro” shmup called Project Neon is now available (or about to be available) for purchase on all modern platforms. I spoke to the developer Coin Feeder aka Fullset, who updated me with the full schedule, as well as physical and retro releases. First, AES a…

Square Enix debuts AI-powered QA testing platform in new collaboration with Google Gemini, built with backing from Japanese government

Square Enix recently unveiled its Google Gemini-powered AI tool that automates the quality assurance testing process for its games.

What Players Look For Before They Join a New Gaming Platform

What players evaluate before joining a gaming platform, from game libraries and security to promotions, community reputation, and usability.

With RTX Spark Laptops Right Around The Corner, NVIDIA Has Released Its RTX Neural Texture Compression SDK For The ARM64 Platform

NVIDIA showcased its RTX Neural Texture Compression (NTC) technique back in 2023, and once again in H1 2026, revealing that VRAM usage can be reduced by an impressive 85 percent. Now, the SDK that was available for developers on Windows 11 has made its way to the ARM64 platform b…

Intel Diamond Rapids “Xeon 7” CPU Surfaces With 32 Cores & Big 240 MB L3 Cache On Oakstream Platform

Intel's next-generation Diamond Rapids "Xeon 7" CPU has been spotted, featuring 32 cores & 240 MB L3 cache on the 18A-P process technology. Intel 18A-P Process Tech Comes To Life As First Diamond Rapids "Xeon 7" CPU Spotted In The Wild Diamond Rapids, the next-gen Xeon family, is…

Raptor PR launches Early Gaming Growth platform to help gaming startups navigate B2B communications

Raptor PR has launched Early Gaming Growth (EGG) , a communications platform designed for gaming startups.

Raptor PR launches EGG platform for early stage games tech companies

Raptor PR has launched a new platform called Early Gaming Growth (EGG) for early stage games tech companies. The platform combines games industry PR, founder-led LinkedIn content and deep expertise with an emphasis on "authentic visibility", aiming to stand out with insight-led c…

FFXIV Launches On Switch 2, With Limited-Time Waived Subscriptions, The Famous Free Trial, And Half-Off Subs For Multi-Platform Players

The critically-acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy 14 has arrived on the Switch 2--we've got the main details of what you need to know.

Why PUBG is backing up its UGC platform launch with a $95,000 creator contest

PUBG has a new user-generated content mode, and Krafton is offering tens of thousands of dollars in prizes to convince creators to try it...

Insider Claims Xbox Could Eventually Leave One Particular Platform

An Xbox insider suggests that Xbox could potentially have plans in place that would allow the company to leave a popular platform in the future.

Free League Announces Revised The One Ring, and New Digital Platform, Free League Unbound

Free League Publishing has announced a revised edition of the Middle-earth TTRPG, The One Ring alongside their own digital platform, Free League Unbound. Read this article on TechRaptor

FirstLook teams with Sega on playtesting platform and player CRM

FirstLook, the player relationship platform for game studios and publishers, has been adopted by Sega, which will use it for playtesting and interacting with...

Toya launches AI-powered PlayTiger analytics platform for Roblox

Toya has launched the beta version of PlayTiger, a new AI-powered measurement platform designed to help brands and creators better understand the impact of their Roblox experiences. The award-winning Roblox studio said the platform moves beyond traditional metrics such as impress…

Coda adds payment platform to Unity’s direct-to-consumer stores

Coda, a digital monetization and distribution firm, has integrated its payment platform with Unity’s direct-to-consumer (D2C) solution. The Coda payment platform is now available...

AMD answers Nvidia’s Vera Rubin with AMD Helios AI platform

Lisa Su, CEO of Advanced Micro Devices, marched out AMD’s Helios platform to compete with Nvidia’s Vera Rubin platform for AI computing coming this...

Amazon Luna cloud gaming platform now added to Prime Video in the US and UK

Amazon's cloud gaming service Luna is now available for Prime Video subscribers with Fire TV in the US and UK.

Running NVIDIA’s RTX GPUs On Windows 11 ARM Platform Is Now Possible, But If You’re Looking For Top-Notch Performance, It’s An Exercise In Futility

The first native NVIDIA driver arriving for Windows 11 ARM is here, as the company begins to optimize its RTX Spark for a future launch. However, one intrepid developer managed to run an RTX GPU on the aforementioned operating system, which might sound like an excellent way to ru…

Palworld has sold over 30m copies already, with Steam unsurprisingly emerging as the most popular platform

Palworld's 1.0 release has been massive so far, with the game hitting its biggest concurrent player peaks since the 2024 early access launch for the past two weeks. Unsurprisingly, that has also translated into a boost to premium unit sales.

Palo Alto Networks to acquire Embrace to expand observability platform

AI cybersecurity company Palo Alto Networks has revealed its plans to acquire user-focused observability provider Embrace. The acquisition will expand Embrace's Real User Monitoring (RUM) technology to the platform while introducing Synthetics, a new capability developed by Palo…

How MapleStory went from an RPG to a content creation platform

MapleStory has hundreds of millions of RPG users logging in daily, but it has also expanded into something much bigger with MapleStory Worlds.

Roblox’s new mobile Build tool lets users create entire games for the UGC platform with an AI text prompt

If you can’t be arsed to follow instructions, guides, or your own inner curiosity and drive, but still want to make a game on the Roblox platform, then you’re in luck because Roblox Corp has unveiled a new mobile tool that will let users tap in a text prompt and let procgen AI do…