Morning Overview on MSN

Next-gen NASA moon spacesuit hits a game-changing milestone

Axiom Space’s next-generation lunar spacesuit, the Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit, has cleared a contractor-led technical review that sets the stage for a formal NASA assessment of the design’s ...
Tech Times

Inside Open-World Game Development: How the Game Design Process Creates Immersive Maps and NPC Systems

Discover how open-world game development works, from the complete game design process for creating vast maps to building advanced NPC systems that bring worlds alive.
Building Design + Construction

Daedal: Turning space planning into a real-time design game

How Gresham Smith's real-time, game-like space planning platform blends hands-on layouts with instant digital feedback—making design faster, clearer, and more collaborative.
Tom's Hardware on MSN

Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks for Roblox, Nintendo, CD Projekt Red, and more

Google's Project Genie can generate games using the company's Genie 3 model, which is trained on prompts from Gemini. It's an experimental tool that doesn't even create fully playable games, but it ...
Detroit Free Press

The Designers Collaborative, a designer focused buying program is sharing ways to increase profits in the New Year

The Designers Collaborative unlocks ‘stocking dealer pricing’ for members of their innovative designer focused buying program. The Designers Collaborative is not like any other buying group. We often ...
PC Gamer

Instead of difficulty, Obsidian designer Josh Sawyer thinks in terms of 3 RPG player archetypes: 'What are they trying to get out of this game?'

Fallout Fallout's original creators say that Fallout 3 and 4 aren't quite what they would've done, but 'sales say people love what they did' The Elder Scrolls Skyrim lead designer says the next Elder ...
automaton-media

Palworld developer Pocketpair requires game designer candidates to provide screenshots of their Steam libraries and playtime, according to CEO

Game designers hoping to work for Pocketpair – the developer behind Craftopia and Palworld – need to be voracious Steam gamers to even have their applications considered. Joining in on discussion ...
CNBC

Ubisoft shares plummet after Assassin’s Creed maker unveils reorganization, cancels six games

Ubisoft shares plunged 34% on Thursday morning after announcing a major restructuring and cancelling six games. The company said it expects to make an operating loss of around 1 billion euros ($1.17 ...
bleedingcool

R.I.P. – Reincarnation Insurance Program Set For Early Access

Indie game developer WarmCore Studio and publisher 2P Games have set an Early Access release date for R.I.P. – Reincarnation Insurance Program. If you haven't seen the game yet, you fight off horsed ...
The New York Times

The Secretive V.I.P. Programs That Keep Gamers Spending

Lucrative players of games like FarmVille and Words With Friends get personal account managers and entries to exclusive sweepstakes. Credit...George Wylesol Supported by By Michael Thomsen CSR 2 ...
People

Valentino Garavani, Legendary Italian Fashion Designer, Dies at 93

Valentino Garavani — the legendary designer of the signature red dress and founder of the Valentino brand — has died Hedy Phillips is the Senior Style News Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...