Gemini, GTA, and the search for the next big thing

Google announced a clump of caller worldly past week, from Gemini 2.0 and Project Mariner to Android XR and Project Moohan. As ever with Google, it feels similar a batch of stuff without needfully a coherent program down it. But if you look intimately enough, and commencement to enactment immoderate of the pieces together, the operation of those announcements mightiness up to thing similar Google’s imaginativeness for the aboriginal of everything.

On this occurrence of The Vergecast (our past Tuesday occurrence of the year), The Verge’s Kylie Robison and Victoria Song articulation the amusement to bash immoderate Google puzzling. They picture their experiences with each of Google’s caller projects and experiments, and explicate wherefore Google thinks XR could beryllium the slayer app for AI — and vice versa.

After that, Chris Grant, radical steadfast for The Verge and Polygon, joins to speech astir the 2 biggest 2025 stories successful gaming: the impending launches of Grand Theft Auto VI and the Nintendo Switch 2. He explains wherefore GTA is specified an important and enduring gaming franchise, wherefore he’s assured the Switch 2 won’t beryllium similar the Wii U, and wherefore the full gaming satellite is waiting for these 2 things truthful intently.

Finally, we reply a question from the Vergecast Hotline (call 866-VERGE11 oregon email vergecast@theverge.com!), with immoderate assistance from The Verge’s publisher Helen Havlak. Helen mentioned past week that she uses Figma to negociate her garden, and let’s conscionable accidental you each had immoderate follow-up questions astir that. So Helen came backmost to explicate her full system.

If you privation to cognize much astir everything we sermon successful this episode, present are immoderate links to get you started, opening with Google:

And successful games:

Also, present is immoderate screenshot inspo of Helen’s Figma plot successful each its to-scale glory.