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I can't code, but I've made five game mods with AI. Here's how

From a map toggle in Valheim to a lock-on camera in Crimson Desert, I've used Claude to fix what bugs me in my favorite games ...

Gamers are becoming designers of much more than video games at UAlbany

UAlbany’s new game design and development major is actually leading to real careers — in gaming and other unexpected fields.
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11 Claude skills that port PlayStation 2 games you own to PC: reverse engineer the code, rebuild the graphics and backend, any controller, play it anywhere, then mod it however ...

Free, MIT, no signup, no API key. The tools are plain Python with nothing to install. The heavy lifting is done by PS2Recomp, ran-j's open-source static recompiler, and the method started life as ...
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Microsoft says it’s optimizing Windows 11 for 8GB PCs, so I tested 26H2 on an 8GB laptop

After I updated my dad’s 8GB laptop to Windows 11 26H2, memory usage after a fresh restart dropped from 5GB to 3.3GB. I also checked on a fresh 8GB RAM virtual machine, which showed a similar drop, ...
thenextweb.com

Epic says it vibe coded its new launcher because ‘programming is hard’

“Programming is hard. So, instead of doing that, we vibe coded a new Epic Games Launcher.” Epic Games opened its launcher announcement with those lines on 14 October. Epic says the rebuilt app is ...
Kotaku

AI Vibe-Coding Just Hit The Video Game Industry Like An Avalanche

We spoke to Take-Two’s former head of AI and Godot Engine’s executive director about the Claude Opus–shaped problem that the industry is currently facing AI Indie Games interview Slay the Spire 2 Vibe ...
Game Rant

Epic Games Looks to AI Vibe Coding to Beat Steam

James Ratcliff joined Game Rant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is ...
GamesIndustry

Epic Games claims its new "vibe coded" launcher runs 46% faster than Steam from cold start to store page

Epic Games has released a beta version of its new launcher, claiming it is 46% faster than Steam from cold start to the store page. The launcher, currently available in preview mode, is also ...
TweakTown

Epic says 'programming is hard,' so they made a vibe coded games launcher instead

Epic Games says its vibe-coded launcher is 46% faster than Steam and has a refreshed look, but it remains in preview with no broad release date announced. The AI push follows layoffs of more than ...
IGN

‘We Vibe Coded a New Epic Games Launcher’ – Epic’s New Store App Was Built Using AI

Epic has revealed a newly refreshed version of the Epic Games Launcher, its Steam-like platform that provides access to the Epic Games Store, your games library, social features, and a developer’s hub ...
Ars Technica

Epic says its new vibe-coded Epic Games Launcher is faster than Steam

Nearly eight years after Epic took on Steam with its own Game Store and launcher, the Fortnite maker is deploying a new tool to give it an edge over Valve: vibe coding. Speaking to IGN, Keely ...