Dean Takahashi

Minecraft announced details for the next two game drops, Spring to Life and the next vanilla game drop, a visual upgrade called Vibrant Visuals. Minecraft also announced movie updates, including an exclusive clip from A Minecraft Movie and details about an in-game live event during the Minecraft Live broadcast. Players will be able to experience new variants of the chicken, pig, and cow, along with new ambient features and sounds on March 25, 2025. Additionally,

It’s funny how people slip out of history. The story of Valve’s formation in its critical early years and how it made the original Half-Life is an inspiring one. I was one of the people who attempted to capture the story of the storytelling shooter game, but my relatively short story in 1998 for the Wall Street Journal left a key contac…Read More

Elda Entertainment and Overseer Games announced that Kaiserpunk, a grand city building and world conquest game, is marching toward a launch on March 21. Elda Entertainment is a brand-new publisher with a vision to deliver the best management games, and it’s teamed up with Zagreb, Croatia-based Overseer Games on the project. Blending productio…Read More

Remedy Entertainment unveiled a new gameplay trailer for FBC: Firebreak, a three-player co-op FPS where the Federal Bureau of Control’s first-response unit must contain an escalating paranatural threat.  When the Oldest House, the Bureau’s shifting headquarters, falls under siege by a relentless paranatural force, only Firebreak – its most adaptabl…Read More

The ESA introduced the Accessible Games Initiative to provide players with information about accessibility features in video games.Read More

LightSpeed Studios, a global game developer, said at GDC 2025 it is revealing the “Original IP Initiative,” a new strategic focus centered on developing original game titles. Game industry veterans from LightSpeed Studios took the stage at GDC 2025, to reveal plans for its decisive focus on the creation of original IP. Steve C. Martin will un…Read More

Shawn Pierre, the chairperson of the Independent Games Festival, opened the Independent Games Festival Awards with a plea to support game developers.Read More

Netflix Games did a panel on the inspirations behind big-effort games at Netflix and the shows they’re based on. Jason Altman, head of transmedia at Netflix, led a panel at Netflix Games’ side event at the Game Developers Conference. Bill Jackson of Netflix Games said Squid Game Unleashed was a huge opportunity, but he added, “We knew had to get it right.” He said the show was quite dark and the game team decided they

Nvidia announced that Nvidia Blackwell hardware will accelerate by 50 times the big computer-aided software engineering firms’ software for digital twins. The vendors include Ansys, Altair, Cadence, Siemens and Synopsys. With such accelerated software, along with Nvidia CUDA-X libraries and blueprints to optimize performance such as automotive, aerospace, energy, manufacturing and life sciences can significantly reduce product development time, cut costs and increase design accuracy while maintaining energy efficiency. “CUDA-accelerated physical simulation on Nvidia Blackwell

Nvidia announced the Nvidia Omniverse Blueprint for Earth-2 weather analytics to accelerate the development of more accurate weather forecasting. Climate-related weather events have had a $2 trillion impact on the global economy over the last decade, the company said. The new Omniverse Blueprint equips users with the latest technologies to help global organizations improve risk management and disaster preparedness. The Nvidia Omniverse Blueprint for Earth-2 weather analytics offers reference workflows — including Nvidia GPU acceleration