Amazon Backs Out of Publishing Open-World Driving Game from Ex-Forza Horizon Developers

Amazon will no longer publish UK developer Maverick Games’ yet-to-be-titled open-world driving game, reports The Game ...
ABC7 San Francisco

Winter storm could bring inches of rain to Bay Area and create hazardous driving in Sierra

LARKSPUR, Calif. (KGO) -- Wind and rain could pound the Bay Area this week and bring several feet of snow to the Sierra, making driving treacherous. Watch out. Some fierce, wet, windy weather is ...
Wall Street Journal

Hands-Free Driving Systems Confuse Drivers, but Carmakers Push for More

A Ford engineer and her husband were driving their new F-150 pickup in May when something went terribly wrong. The engineer told Ford they were using Ford’s hands-free driving system, BlueCruise, ...
The Conversation

Are video game developers using AI? Players want to know, but the rules are patchy

Thomas Byers receives funding from The Research Training Program Scholarship, supported by the Australian Commonwealth Government and the University of Melbourne. Bjorn Nansen receives funding from ...
Seeking Alpha

Waymo using Genie 3 to create hard-to-predict driving scenarios

To make autonomous driving safer and more reliable, Waymo (GOOG) (GOOGL) is using DeepMind’s Genie 3 AI model to create realistic digital worlds to help its autonomous vehicles handle hard-to-predict ...
Ars Technica

Waymo leverages Genie 3 to create a world model for self-driving cars

Google-spinoff Waymo is in the midst of expanding its self-driving car fleet into new regions. Waymo touts more than 200 million miles of driving that informs how the vehicles navigate roads, but the ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Waymo Says Genie 3 Simulations Can Help Boost Robotaxi Rollout

Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo said it is using DeepMind’s Genie 3 AI model to create realistic, digital worlds for its autonomous driving technology to train on edge-case scenarios. The self-driving tech ...
13abc

High winds and drifting snow can create dangerous driving conditions

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - While the worst of the snowfall is behind Northwest Ohio, what has fallen could create dangerous driving conditions as high winds and blowing, drifting snow become the next ...
Gameranx

Playground Games’ Fable Is Letting You Create Your Character – And Their Morality – From The Ground Up

Playground is changing things up for this reboot completely. Playground Games has finally opened the floodgates on the finer details of their Fable reboot. We now know that it is coming this Autumn to ...
WTSP

Florida Hands-Free Driving bill will ban using your phone with your hands while driving

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — A Florida state senator introduced a bill for consideration ahead of the 2026 legislative session in Florida, aiming to tighten the rules around using your phone while driving ...
Polygon

Racing games are making a comeback in 2026

It would be inaccurate to say that the racing game genre has been in a total slump over the last few years. After all, Mario Kart World was one of the best-selling games of 2025 — as was the ...