Make Any Game With AI & 2 New Open Source Video Models!
AI coding agents can now mod almost any PC game you own, so I put DOOM inside Skyrim. SkyDoom is real Skyrim with all the NPCs, except Doom monsters spawn everywhere and I have a chaingun. Built with UniversalModder in about an hour, and I'll show you how to mash up any two games you own. Also this week: two new open source video models in one day (Prism does native 2K with audio but wants an 80 GB card; Kandinsky 6.0 runs on a 4090), Nano Banana 2.1 is out and it's a 0.1, and Hark wants to be your AI best friend. WHAT'S IN THIS ONE - Prism: open source, native 2K with audio, image-to-video, from Tencent's Hunyuan team and Fudan University. 720p needs an 80 GB card. It's a preview with no announcement, and some demo clips are being questioned on its Hugging Face page. Unverified either way. - Kandinsky 6.0 (untested): open source video with synced audio and lip-sync, 5-second clips, 1080p via upscaler, MIT. Runs on a 4090 (about 7 minutes a clip for Lite, 20 for Pro). On fal and in a free Hugging Face Space. - AI mods: Spider-Man in Arkham Knight (ArkWeb, by luki-1), Skate 3 inside Modern Warfare 2 (chasm), and SkyDoom. Not AI-generated games: AI-generated mods of two games you own. Yes, I bought Skyrim again. Thirteen copies, Todd. - Mini tutorial: UniversalModder is a skill for Claude Code, Codex or Gemini CLI. Point it at two games, say what you want, let it grind. - The other side: GTA V in a browser (taken down fast) and Chris First's Fallout New York, built with Claude, until ZeniMax sent the cease-and-desist. - Nano Banana 2.1: out everywhere after a chaotic rollout. Built on Gemini 3.6 Flash, so not the Pro update. Community tests plus my Alan Wake cover (by Don Mindy). Verdict: a 0.1 update. Waiting on Gemini 4. - Hark: an AI assistant from Figure founder Brett Adcock's new company (not Figure itself; I misspoke). Free, $20 and $100 plans; first 100,000 sign-ups get the paid plan free. LINKS UniversalModder: https://github.com/rehan-remade/universal-modder ArkWeb (Spider-Man in Arkham Knight): https://github.com/luki-1/ArkWeb Fallout New York (Chris First): https://x.com/chrisfirst/status/2104733913734099015 Prism: https://github.com/Tencent-Hunyuan/Prism Kandinsky 6.0: https://github.com/kandinskylab/kandinsky-6 Nano Banana 2.1 model card: https://deepmind.google/models/model-cards/nano-banana-2-1/ Hark: https://www.hark.com Theoretically News newsletter: https://theoreticallymedia.com/newsletter/ CHAPTERS 0:00 Things are not slowing down 00:38 Prism: open source, native 2K with audio 02:27 The catch: 80 GB card, demo-clip controversy 03:10 Breaking: Kandinsky 6.0 runs on a 4090 04:02 A tease from Desktop Flamethrower Girl 04:34 AI mods: Spider-Man in Arkham, Skate 3 in CoD 05:35 SkyDoom: DOOM inside Skyrim 06:31 Mods, not AI-generated games (you need to own both) 07:03 Mini tutorial: UniversalModder 08:10 GTA V in a browser, Fallout New York's C&D 09:44 Nano Banana 2.1 is out (Gemini 3.6 Flash) 12:06 My test: the Alan Wake cover, by Don Mindy 13:10 It's a 0.1 update. Waiting on Gemini 4 13:38 Hark: the $100 AI assistant 15:02 Wrap #AIVideo #OpenSource #Skyrim #DOOM #Modding #NanoBanana #AINews
