Discord has announced a new Social SDK to allow developers to integrate Discord-powered communication features directly into their games. This means gamers will be able to message, invite, and voice chat with their friends super easily — even if they don’t have a Discord account.
As reported by The Verge, the company has been testing the SDK with studios like Theorycraft Games, Facepunch Studios, and Elodie Games — and now it’s available to everyone. It’s compatible with C++, Unreal Engine, and Unity, and it supports Windows 11 and macOS. Mobile and console developers can’t use it yet but support is coming.
Discord as a platform exists precisely because it was never easy to chat with all of your friends in one place using in-game tools — and now that it’s so popular, game developers don’t really bother trying to compete with it. This new SDK will hopefully result in even smoother experiences for players without requiring too much effort from the developers, which sounds like a win-win for everyone.
It’s no surprise for PC support to come first but the planned support for mobile and console is where things will get really interesting — because these limited platforms are where direct integration is essential for smooth communication. You can’t just tab in and out of different windows on your phone or your PS5 like you can on a PC.
Before Discord was directly integrated with PS5, for example, I used to have to sit with my laptop next to me running Discord. It was always awkward because you had to choose between the limited privacy of voice-activated chat, or use push-to-talk and take your hand off the controller to press a button on your keyboard every time you wanted to talk. It was far from ideal. Now, I can quickly press the mute button on my DualSense controller whenever I don’t want to be heard.
The easier it is to chat with friends, the more people will do it — which will be great for the industry as a whole since it makes games so much more fun to play.
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Touchscreen laptops have been around for years. You can get them in all sizes and shapes. Just not from Apple. For years, the Cupertino giant has treated the idea of a touchscreen MacBook the way I treat a meeting that could have been an email: with open contempt. However, Wednesday looks like the day the company could finally change its mind.
The latest Apple invite puts the “Pro and Tell” showcase in Los Angeles at 10 a.m. PT (1 p.m. ET) on October 28, 2026. Instead of a regular live-streamed keynote, it is an invitation-only, hands-on event for a handful of press and creators (similar to what the company did for the MacBook Neo earlier this year).
Two residents of Chicago have filed a lawsuit in the US over claims that robots run by Coco Robotics and Serve Robotics captured their facial and hand measurements without consent, bringing renewed attention to the food delivery robots. The cases raise a troubling question: If a robot delivers food to your door, can it also be gathering sensitive information about you?
According to a report by The Associated Press, the proposed class-action lawsuits were filed in Cook County on Oct. 9 and allege violations of Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act. The complaints claim that the robots’ cameras and LiDAR sensors captured information on customers’ faces and hands as they approached the machines to pick up their orders. Both have denied the allegations.