NYT Pips hints, answers for February 25, 2026

Released in August 2025, the Pips puts a unique spin on dominoes, creating a fun single-player experience that could become your next daily gaming habit. Currently, if you're stuck, the game only ...
MIT Technology Review

Just pull a string to turn these tile patterns into useful 3D structures

Inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami, an MIT team has designed a technique that could transform flat panels into medical devices, habitats, and other objects without the use of tools.

"I don't want to play them:" 10% of the top Steam Next Fest demos admit to using generative AI

Steam Next Fest has been branded a slopfest by players trying to find games that don't involve the use of generative AI during development.
GameSpot

Overwatch Is Finally (Kinda) Coming To Mobile, And It's Pretty Fun So Far

Overwatch Rush is still early in its development, but its three-minute matches delight in many of the same ways the original ...
Gameranx

Playground Games’ Fable Is Letting You Create Your Character – And Their Morality – From The Ground Up

Playground is changing things up for this reboot completely. Playground Games has finally opened the floodgates on the finer details of their Fable reboot. We now know that it is coming this Autumn to ...
Game Rant

Best Horror Games That Use Silence Instead of Jump Scares

An HR advisor with a background in recruitment and HRIS functions, with a passion for video games and writing. Oliver grew up playing Call of Duty with his siblings and has garnered 1000s of hours ...
PC Gamer

This roguelite claims to have the dubious honor of being 'the world's first fully playable game created 100% through AI' in a milestone for slop everywhere

Codex Mortis was "100% vibe-coded" over three months using a mix of generative AI tools. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.
GamesRadar+

AI has an "unbelievable ability to create a lot of slop," says ex-Nexon boss who signed Arc Raiders, predicting the industry will "triple" in size in 7 years due to players ...

Games Marvel Rivals owner Netease says heck no we didn't shut down our AI department or warn devs off it Games Valve softens Steam AI rules to separate "efficiency gains" from "the use of AI in ...
Business Insider

Fun and (video) games with Google's Gemini 3 AI model

Google's Gemini 3 AI impresses with advanced multimodal and coding capabilities. Gemini 3 enables users to create interactive websites, simulations, and video games easily. Strong reviews for Gemini 3 ...
Forbes

‘Wordle’ Just Got A Massive Update, And It’s Really Fun

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about TV shows, movies, video games, entertainment & culture. Not much has changed with the NYT Games app’s popular ...
VentureBeat

AI coding transforms data engineering: How dltHub's open-source Python library helps developers create data pipelines for AI in minutes

Credit: Image generated by VentureBeat with FLUX-pro-1.1-ultra A quiet revolution is reshaping enterprise data engineering. Python developers are building production data pipelines in minutes using ...