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A technology blog covering game development, AI, automation, and industry news — notes from what we actually build and run.
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DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: Reported Evaluation Gains and the Limits of the Claude Cost Comparison
DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813’s reported scores approach Claude Fable 5 on two benchmarks, but our 1,646 Claude-related runs cannot establish replacement costs.
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MBC Launches MBC Game Studio: Saudi Media Giant Enters Gaming with BioWare, Bungie, and Ubisoft Veterans
Reporting suggests that MBC, the Saudi Arabian media conglomerate, is moving into game development — but the specifics of that move remain, at this stage, thinly sourced.
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Hugging Face Published a TPU-Native Backend While Its Endpoints Record Still Names One 16 GB T4 — and a 500 Every Two Minutes
The smallest accelerator a small team typically lands on when it puts one model behind a hosted Hugging Face Inference Endpoint is reported to be a single NVIDIA Tesla T4 with 16 GB of memory — one GPU, not a pair, not a sharded pool.
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A December 2026 Xbox and PC Release Nobody Can Source: What the 2026 Calendar Actually Lists
A specific release claim has been circulating: that a chaotic co-op sandbox game is arriving on Xbox and PC in December 2026.
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300,000 People in Games and No Central Place to Meet: GameDev.net’s Archives, the Cost of Going Indie, and One Submission Steam Turned Away
The short answer: the public record around GameDev.net describes a long-running archive of tutorials, competition entries and community tooling, but the same record — mostly forum testimony — describes a field of roughly 300,000 workers scattered across venues that barely talk to each other.
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From Real Object to Printable Model: How 3D Scan Data, Photo-Capture Apps, and DIY Code Repositories Fit Together
3D printing is generally described as an additive manufacturing process, in which a physical object is built up from a digital model, usually layer by layer, rather than cut away from a solid block.
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BlueField-4 Is Announced for 2026 — But Every Shipping Integration on Record Still Targets BlueField-3
NVIDIA’s BlueField-4 brings 64 Arm cores and 800 Gbps for 2026. Red Hat, F5 and Mirantis all document BlueField-3 — and the offload examples are older still.
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Agentic Delivery Gates and the Counts They Leave Behind
Read agentic delivery gates alongside playagit’s 156 runs through October 1, 2026, and examine what the recorded publication counts can establish.
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Copilot code review expands, while playagit’s publication breakdown leaves 646 unexplained
GitHub announces Copilot code review additions. Playagit’s 182 pipeline runs show review outcomes and a publication breakdown that leaves 646 unexplained.
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Joys of Small Game Development: A Guidebook, a Repository, and a Website
Meet Joys of Small Game Development, a guidebook about enjoying small-game creation, with a named GitHub repository and a GitHub Pages website.