What began as a solo AI experiment has grown into a team production system that turns diverse ideas into playable games faster.

SINGAPORE and LOS ANGELES, Aug. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Elseland today unveiled 20 new original games created with AI across every stage of production. The collection will join the growing catalog on Elseland’s open world game platform and spans match 3, puzzle, arcade, action, hypercasual and interactive narrative genres. It demonstrates how AI game development can help teams explore more ideas and move from concept to playable experience faster.

The titles mark an important step in Elseland’s evolution from a founder led experiment into a team operation built for continuous AI game production. By developing multiple genres in parallel, the team can test concepts earlier, refine gameplay faster and turn more original ideas into complete playable games.

From a Solo Experiment to an AI Game Production System

Elseland’s AI game development journey began in April, when founder Phil Liu started exploring how far one person could take the creation of a 3D open world with AI.

Over the following months, that individual experiment evolved into a team production system supported by specialized AI agents. Under the team’s creative direction, AI is used throughout visual creation, 3D modeling, gameplay logic, level design, balancing and narrative development.

The system allows the team to test concepts earlier, explore several creative directions at once and refine playable builds more efficiently. Instead of using AI for only one part of development, Elseland connects it across the full production process.

The 20 new games represent the clearest demonstration of this capability to date. They show how a single AI production framework can support different visual styles, gameplay systems and narrative formats.

Twenty New Games Across Multiple Genres

The collection highlights the range of games that Elseland can produce through its AI based workflow.

Match 3 and visual world building

Candy Kingdom takes players into a colorful 3D confectionery world created through AI assisted modeling. The game combines match 3 mechanics with storytelling, character skins and environmental exploration.

Spatial and logic puzzles

The collection includes 3D Sudoku and an animal themed sliding puzzle inspired by Klotski. Both games reinterpret familiar logic challenges through new visual styles and spatial interactions.

Social and casual experiences

Capybara Poker Lounge introduces a relaxed card game experience centered on playful characters, humor and a distinctive social setting.

Arcade, action and hypercasual games

The lineup also features runners, action titles and arcade experiences designed for immediate play, short sessions and replayability.

Interactive stories and role playing

A narrative game reverses the familiar cat and mouse chase by placing the mouse in pursuit of the cat. Another title explores AI powered tabletop role playing, allowing the adventure to develop in response to player choices.

Together, these titles show how AI can support not only faster production, but also broader creative experimentation across genres.

An Open World Universe Filled with Playable Experiences

Elseland is an open world game universe where players can explore, discover and instantly enter a growing variety of games.

Players can move through different environments, encounter minigames and switch between experiences whenever they choose. A visit to Elseland might begin with a puzzle, continue with an arcade challenge and lead into a story driven adventure.

By connecting different types of games within one universe, Elseland aims to make discovering a new experience part of the experience itself.

Over time, the platform also plans to introduce more opportunities for creators to test ideas, remix gameplay mechanics and build character driven worlds for others to explore.

The Next Step for Elseland

Following the release of these 20 new games, Elseland plans to introduce a larger AI powered 3D world connecting characters, minigames and explorable locations.

The environment will allow players to discover experiences through places, quests and encounters rather than selecting every game from a conventional menu. This will move Elseland closer to its long term vision of a continuously expanding universe shaped by new games, characters and stories.

“Elseland began with a simple question: how far can one person take game creation with AI?” said Phil Liu, founder of Elseland. “What started as a 3D open world experiment has grown into a team production system. AI helps us explore more ideas and shorten the distance between an idea and something people can actually play. It gives creators more freedom to focus on what makes a game original, engaging and fun.”

To explore Elseland and play the latest games, visit elseland.ai or follow Elseland on X at @Elselandai.

About Elseland

Elseland is an open world online game platform where players can explore, discover and instantly play free online games, minigames and interactive worlds. Its growing catalog spans puzzle, arcade, action, strategy, simulation and story games. Elseland also uses AI across game development to create new mechanics, characters and playable experiences more efficiently.

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Klein will lead Zum’s software-only business as the company’s unified, AI-powered Zum CMX solution expands nationwide, reimagining student mobility for 6,500+ schools

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Aug. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Zūm, a leader in student mobility, today announced the appointment of Matthew Klein as Vice President of Software Sales, strengthening its team as Zum scales its AI-powered Zum CMX™ solution nationwide.

Some of the largest school districts in the country, including Boston Public Schools, Los Angeles Unified School District and Virginia Beach City Public Schools, have chosen Zum CMX to modernize their in-house student mobility operations and improve reliability, visibility and the experience for families. As more districts look to modernize their in-house operations, Zum CMX provides the technology and intelligence designed to deliver a safer, more reliable and efficient student mobility experience. Reliable student mobility starts with Zum CMX.

“Zum CMX was built from the ground up for one purpose: transforming student mobility,” said Ritu Narayan, Founder and CEO of Zum. “We built the entire platform around the unique complexities of getting students to and from school. With every new district we serve, our technology gets smarter, learning from an increasingly large and diverse mobility network. That singular focus on student mobility is what makes Zum CMX fundamentally different and has created tremendous momentum for the business. We are excited to have Matt join the team to build on that momentum and help scale Zum CMX to districts across the country.”

Prior to Zum, Klein spent eight years building and leading Coursera’s government business, scaling it to help governments reskill citizens and public workforces. He began his career in public health with the Clinton Health Access Initiative. Klein holds an MBA from UC Berkeley and a BA in Political Science from Haverford College.

“I come from an EdTech background, and Zum’s mission immediately resonated with me,” Klein said. “Reliable student mobility is fundamental to access to education, and Zum has built technology that is dramatically improving the experience for students, families and school districts while making the underlying system more efficient. I’m excited to help scale Zum CMX so districts across the country can benefit from a fundamentally better way to deliver student mobility.”

Zum CMX is a unified, AI-powered system purpose-built for student mobility, connecting routing, dispatch, drivers, schools, families, safety and operations in real time. Rather than layering technology onto fragmented legacy systems, CMX provides districts with a single connected platform to optimize resources and deliver greater visibility, coordination and accountability across their mobility networks.

Today, Zum supports more than 6,500 schools across 19 states, with partnerships spanning many of the nation’s largest school districts, including Los Angeles Unified, San Francisco Unified, Seattle Public Schools, Oakland Unified, Boston Public Schools, the School District of Philadelphia, Omaha Public Schools and St. Louis Public Schools. Zum’s continued investment in CMX and software leadership reflects its next phase of growth: bringing the technology powering its nationwide mobility network to more districts across the country.

To learn more about how Zum is leading the nation in redefining student mobility, visit www.ridezum.com.

About Zum

Zum is redefining mass mobility with Zum CMX, which connects and coordinates people, vehicles, and operations in real time. In the student mobility market, Zum is addressing a daily source of anxiety and disruption by providing a reliable, transparent, and efficient mobility experience for students and families. Learn more at www.ridezum.com. Today, more than 6,500 schools in 19 states have relied on the Zum CMX™ system.

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NEW YORK, Aug. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Accrete, the cognitive infrastructure company building Knowledge Engines for autonomous work, today announced that it has been awarded a sole-source contract by the U.S. Marine Corps to deliver Argus for Cognitive Advantage.

The award was made on a sole-source basis. Under the award, Accrete will license its Expert AI Agents to the U.S. Marine Corps to help achieve cognitive advantage, enabling more informed, confident decisions.

Adversaries increasingly compete below the threshold of armed conflict, using coordinated narratives, synthetic media, and inauthentic amplification to shape perceptions faster than human analysts can track. Rather than treating open-source data as a search problem, Argus for Cognitive Advantage tracks, analyzes, and visualizes narrative development across the complete information environment — OSINT, open web, social media, broadcast media, messaging platforms, and foreign-language outlets. Accrete’s Knowledge Engine platform, which powers the Expert AI Agent Argus for Cognitive Advantage, converts the institutional knowledge of experienced practitioners into expert AI agents that surface the most relevant, use-case-specific signals across every accessible network. This significantly reduces analytic time and produces the detailed reporting required for timely decision-making.

In a world driven by visual media, rapid analysis is paramount — and this is where Argus for Cognitive Advantage’s video vision stands out. It reduces hours of video content to analysis in minutes, transcribing and translating speech, detecting objects and scene content, and inferring location cues — turning clips that once had to be watched end to end into searchable, attributable evidence, including video posted in languages the analyst does not read.

Additional product capabilities include:

Narrative intelligence. Narrative engines, stance detection, and predictive simulation track how conversations evolve and resonate.Audience simulation. The Audience Simulation Agent segments an audience and simulates how each segment will react to a message before it is released, compressing a weeks-long analytic task into a single workflow.Measures of effectiveness. Automated assessments quantify mission outcomes.Global reach. Real-time translation and transcription across 243 languages, spanning sources including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube, Reddit, Telegram, Weibo, and VKontakte.Argus Chat. Analysts query the data in plain language.Trusted AI by design. Every inference is traceable to its source, within auditable, accreditation-ready boundaries.

“Cognitive advantage is a warfighting requirement, not a support function, and this award reflects the Marine Corps’ clear recognition of that,” said Bill Wall, CEO of Accrete AI Government. “Furthermore, this sole-source award demonstrates the trust Accrete has built across the Department of War services. Accrete is proud to expand its reach within the Department of War by supporting the U.S. Marine Corps.”

Accrete first deployed Argus with the Department of War in 2022, followed by a multi-million dollar U.S. Army contract in 2024 to advance the capability for Army information operations. Argus for Cognitive Advantage was selected for a 2025 AFWERX STRATFI award to transition its technology from prototype to operational use.

“Knowledge Engines are dynamic context recorders, and the advantage begins the moment an organization presses record. The most valuable context in any institution is the know-how trapped in the heads of its best people. Organizations that never capture it are ceding compounding advantage to adversaries and competitors that do. Argus for Cognitive Advantage is one of the most sophisticated applications of the Knowledge Engine platform, and Accrete is proud to extend it to the Marine Corps as it counters adversaries operating against the United States every day through digital channels,” said Prashant Bhuyan, Founder, CEO, and Chairman of Accrete, Inc.

About Accrete

Accrete builds cognitive infrastructure for government and enterprise customers. Founded in 2017, Accrete’s Knowledge Engine platform unifies fragmented systems, siloed data, tacit knowledge, and decision-making into a continuously learning universal system of intelligence. Knowledge Engines give agents the shared context to reason, collaborate, decide, and act across the full complexity of an organization. As AI makes intelligence abundant, judgment is the scarce resource, and Accrete’s Knowledge Engines encode the expert judgment organizations accumulate over decades so agents can be trusted with consequential decisions. Accrete’s customers span Fortune 500 enterprises as well as U.S. defense and national security agencies. From commercial operations to national security missions, Accrete’s platform enables expert agents that deliver superintelligence purpose-built for high-stakes environments. Accrete AI Government LLC, based in Alexandria, VA, is the federal subsidiary of New York-based Accrete, Inc.

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