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Celebrations filled the streets, subways and bars until well after midnight in the five boroughs after Knicks win Marvita Davis, 70, was a teenager in Harlem the last time the New York Knicks won a championship, in 1973. “I was like, Oh, I like this game. I can get into this game,” recalled Davis, who went on to play basketball at Northeastern University. Continue reading...

Pac-Man, but you're the ghost I always felt a little bad for the ghosts in Pac-Man. They patrol the maze, they corner the guy, and then he eats a glowing pellet and suddenly they're the ones running for their lives. So I built a small game where you finally get to play the other side. Pac-Man has its own AI, and your job is to catch him before he clears the maze. The twist is the same one that al…

🎮 Play the Game 🔗 Live: https://turings-light.vercel.app 💻 Code: https://github.com/redwanshahriarshubho/turings-light 📹 Demo Video What I Built Turing's Light is a browser-based narrative puzzle game honouring Alan Mathison Turing (1912–1954) — mathematician, codebreaker, father of computer science, and gay man persecuted by the government he helped save. The game spans four acts of his real lif…

There's a tidy framework going around for idle game economy design. Three sinks — Progression, Engagement, Prestige — and for each one, a row telling you what it absorbs: permanent upgrades, refills and boosts, cosmetic items. Good starting map. But "absorbs" is doing something sneaky, and if you don't catch it you'll mis-tune every economy you touch. A sink, by definition, destroys a resource. I…

What I Built I built Solitice, a relaxing, Solstice-themed 2D pixel art sidescroller. My intended goal was to capture the atmospheric and calming essence of the solstice season within a lightweight, accessible web game. Players can experience a tranquil platforming journey that ties directly into the challenge theme by celebrating the longest (or shortest!) day of the year through its environment…

CleanSheet Soccer 2, a goalkeeping simulator built specifically for PlayStation VR2, is out now.

PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox, Nintendo Switch; Vertigo Games This clever update captures the 1990s magic of the original… including some of the technical issues The 90s were a gold rush for adventure games. LucasArts kicked off the decade with its legendarily irreverent Monkey Island games. Then, Cyan Worlds materialised to deliver a series of atmospheric and boundary-pushing odysseys with Myst and Ri…

This is a submission for the June Solstice Game Jam What I Built Bletchley is a web codebreaking game set at Bletchley Park, 1939–1945. You play as an anonymous codebreaker in Hut 6. Your job: decrypt intercepted Enigma messages by adjusting mechanical rotors before time runs out. The game spans 4 levels across two cipher types — Caesar and rotor permutation. Early levels introduce the mechanics …

From horror galore to Chinese action games and YRK nostalgia, the key trends, trailers and surprises from the Summer Game Fest • Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Did you spend hours of your weekend watching a relentless series of video game adverts? No? I don’t blame you – Summer Game Fest, the collection of livestreams that has arisen in place of the giant annual E…

This is a submission for the June Solstice Game Jam What I Built SOLSTICE — The Longest Day is a short, atmospheric platformer built around one idea: your light is your only resource. It's the eve of the June solstice — the year's hinge between the longest day and the longest night — and the sun is failing. You play a small wanderer carrying the last ember of daylight. That glow does three jobs a…

What I Built Solstice Cipher: The Turing Test of Light and Shadow is a premium, retro-futuristic browser-based puzzle and narrative game. solstice-cipher.pages.dev The game combines two core ideas: Light & Shadow Routing Puzzles (The Solstice Theme) : Players align optical mirrors, prism splitters, and color filters on a coordinates grid. A central "Solstice Toggle" shifts the cycle from Day to N…

90s PlayStation fans, rejoice: California studio Toys for Bob is making Spyro: Realms Beyond, intended to ‘inspire love, joy and laughter’ As the gaming mascots of millennial childhood have been resuscitated one by one for a nostalgic audience, one has remained notably absent: 1990s PlayStation hero Spyro. A new game starring the purple dragon was announced at tonight’s Xbox Game Showcase – the f…

This is a submission for the June Solstice Game Jam What I Built Beat the Oracle is a free-to-play World Cup 2026 prediction game where you go head-to-head with an algorithm. An "Oracle" — a prediction engine built on 125 years of international football results — has already simulated the entire tournament. It rates all 48 teams, decides every match with a single probability formula, and runs the…

I just launched Kotobato on Google Play after about two and a half years of solo development. It's a word puzzle RPG — you swipe connected letters on a board to form words, and those words become attacks. Longer words deal more damage. Rarer words hit harder. I want to share what I built, why I built it this way, and what surprised me most during development. The core mechanic The board is a grid…

The New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani , briefly stepped away from City Hall to tackle the ultimate soccer challenge: predicting the entire World Cup bracket In the Guardian's exclusive interactive game. From shocking early exits to his definitive pick for the final, see how Mamdani maps out the world’s biggest tournament Bracketology: predict a path to World Cup victory Continue reading...

Gaming, like AI, is far from what fascinates me most about technology and creative development. Still, that's what many fellow developers talk about these days, and what makes for good, controversial topics for further nerdy small talk. This post continues the ideas from my earlier article, Learning Lessons from Gaming . As an experiment, some of the concepts below were developed in conversation …

The PS5 era has been in some ways disappointing for Sony – on Tuesday, the company revealed a slate of games they hope will change that • Don’t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here PlayStation’s future has looked a little uncertain these past few years. Although the PS5 has sold well and been very profitable, the brand is far from the runaway market leader it was in the PS2 d…

Looking for a list of all the new VR games and DLCs coming to Quest, Steam, PlayStation VR2, and other platforms in June? We've got you covered.

June brings musical rhythm, narrative puzzles, and a platformer for the Gorilla Tag generation to Meta's subscription games service for Quest.

I don't identify as a gamer. I occasionally participate in board games or an amateur football match, and I rarely spend time playing computer games. But I used to. One remnant of that time is civilization, or its open-source spin-off, freeciv , that you can also play online for free. I already tried and failed to use the freeciv game engine to illustrate the concept of Astro's Islands Architectur…