Game Developer

MAY 19, 2025

Shuhei Yoshida offers his take on the recent industry implosion and ponders whether there's light at the end of the tunnel.

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Radiator Blog

MAY 10, 2025

(This post is adapted from my micro talk "Teaching and Rethinking Level Design" at the GDC 2025 Educators Soapbox session. That's why it mentions "students" in the slide above.) People want to do level design. They grow up playing games like Minecraft, Roblox, Fortnite all 3D games with 3D worlds. And to create 3D worlds, supposedly you need this thing called level design.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 21, 2025

Gamathon , a pan-African initiative by Africacomicade , continues to grow as a platform for game developers, animators, storytellers and tech creatives to showcase their work, connect with industry leaders and explore opportunities for funding and collaboration. Launched in Nigeria in 2020, the event embarked on its first continent-wide tour in 2025.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 12, 2025

Warner Bros has published its financial results for the three months ended March 31, 2025, reporting a 48% decrease in games revenue during its first quarter.

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GameDev.Net

MAY 12, 2025

Create Worlds has rolled out version 1.4.0 of its Wonderland Engine , enhancing the toolset for developers building high-performance 3D web applications, games, and WebXR experiences.

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Game From Scratch

MAY 12, 2025

GameFromScratch.com The Hazel Engine Will Soon Be Free The Hazel Game Engine is a 3D game engine written in C++ and scripted in C# developed by popular game development channel The Cherno. The Hazel Game Engine is described accordingly: Until now, the only way to access the Hazel Engine was by being a $10USD+ a month supporter on The post The Hazel Engine Will Soon Be Free appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Game Developer

MAY 14, 2025

'Too many games ask too much of their players, especially in the multiplayer space.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 29, 2025

Copycat, the debut game by Spoonful of Wonders, released on Steam in September 2024. Now the game is also released on Xbox and PlayStation 5. Enough reason to rerun our interview with the creators, originally published on 16 September 2024. Copycat is an emotional, narrative-driven adventure starring Dawn, a recently adopted shelter cat who suddenly finds herself outsmarted by a sneaky stray with a plan to steal her life.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 14, 2025

Sony has published its financial results for its full fiscal year, reporting a major 43% boost in operating income for its Games & Network Services division to ¥414.8 billion ($2.8 billion).

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GameDev.Net

MAY 16, 2025

Drag[en]gine 1.26 Release Download Drag[en]gine 1.

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Indie DB

MAY 18, 2025

Hexborn is a fast-paced roguelite boomer shooter inspired by 90s classics, where you battle cultists and eldritch horrors in procedurally generated dungeons. Wield supernatural firearms, collect powerful upgrades, and survive escalating challenges in.

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Game Developer

MAY 28, 2025

'If the big companies dictate what games can be created, I don't think that will advance the industry.

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The Astronauts

MAY 8, 2025

Three years ago I found myself speeding up Blender OBJ importer, and this time I am rewriting Blender FBX importer. Or, letting someone else take care of the actually complex parts of it. TL;DR: Blender 4.5 will have a new FBX importer. FBX in Blender FBX, a 3D and animation interchange format owned by Kaydara Alias Autodesk, is a proprietary format that is still quite popular in some spaces.

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PreMortem.Games

MAY 14, 2025

Joost van Dreunen, academic, author and CEO of ALDORA , a data-driven intelligence firm in interactive entertainment, shares his insights into the business of video games. Sign up to his newsletter SuperJoost Playlist here. In 2003, Valve launched Steam to solve the patching nightmare of PC gaming. Two decades later, its defending the platforms dominance in court, not from hackers, but from antitrust regulators who now see its marketplace success as potential market abuse.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 15, 2025

The nominees for the Develop:Star Awards 2025 have been announced, with Indiana Jones and the Great Circle receiving the most nominations including Best Game.

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Nvidia

MAY 15, 2025

The first post in this series, Path Tracing Optimization in Indiana Jones: Shader Execution Reordering and Live State Reductions, covered ray-gen shader. The first post in this series, Path Tracing Optimization in Indiana Jones: Shader Execution Reordering and Live State Reductions, covered ray-gen shader level optimizations that sped up the main path-tracing pass (TraceMain) of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.

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Indie DB

MAY 20, 2025

The wait is over! Anima Flux, the gripping co-op Metroidvania adventure, is officially launching on Xbox on May 14. Following the release on PC and an earlier demo launch, players on Xbox Series X|S can now dive into the dystopian sci-fi world, playing.

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Game Developer

MAY 27, 2025

How an 18-year old fan led a commendable preservation effort for Dungeon Rampage.

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Game From Scratch

MAY 5, 2025

GameFromScratch.com Miziziziz Releases Godot Game Source Code Fellow game development YouTuber Miziziziz has just released source code used in several of his published games. All of the games were created using the Godot game engine and the source code is released under the MIT open-source license. The repository has several examples demonstrating the various features.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

MAY 9, 2025

Hi there! Im Adam Scott ( @adamscott on GitHub ), the Godot Engine Web team lead, live from the GodotCon Boston 2025! On May 6, during my State of Godot and the Web talk , I revealed a world premiere to the GodotCon attendees. It was something some thought impossible, and others were resigned to not seeing during their lifetime. Please note that the VOD isnt available yet.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 28, 2025

Developers from companies such as Ubisoft, Ready At Dawn Studios, and Midgar Studio have banded together to form Atlantis Studio.

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Nvidia

MAY 15, 2025

This post is part of the Path Tracing Optimizations in Indiana Jones series. While adding a path-tracing mode to Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. This post is part of the Path Tracing Optimizations in Indiana Jones series. While adding a path-tracing mode to Indiana Jones and the Great Circle in 2024, we used Shader Execution Reordering (SER), a feature available on NVIDIA GPUs since the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 Series, to improve the GPU performance.

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Indie DB

MAY 17, 2025

Explore Tainted Life, a unique zombie survival browser game with rich storytelling.

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Game Developer

MAY 29, 2025

The Polish company also confirmed Cyberpunk 2 has entered pre-production.

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Game From Scratch

MAY 29, 2025

GameFromScratch.com Top Code Editors & IDEs in 2025 The following is a round-up of popular and still in development tools for game programmers, specifically code editors, terminal based editors, IDEs and modern AI assisted tools. If you are looking for a new editor hopefully you will find it here. We go into slightly more depth with each tool The post Top Code Editors & IDEs in 2025 appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 5, 2025

Written by Josh Chandley , COO at WildCard, architecting long-term direction and overseeing product, production, and marketing. He has 14 years of experience building, operating, and scaling game companies. The graveyard of mobile ad tech is full of once-great names: Chartboost. Vungle. AdColony. Millennial Media. InMobi. TapJoy. MoPub. Fyber. Even now, history is repeating itself: Unity.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 12, 2025

Fandom is selling the website and video outlet Giant Bomb to two of its long-time staff, Jeff Bakalar and Jeff Grubb.

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AWS Games

MAY 21, 2025

Independent game studio Shiny Shoe had ambitious plans from the get-go in developing strategic roguelike deck building game Monster Train 2. Released May 21, 2025 across platforms, the game pits players against dangerous enemies in a tactical quest for survival. A follow up to the critically acclaimed Monster Train released in 2020, the sequel introduces all new characters, player mechanics, and modes.

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Indie DB

MAY 11, 2025

Resonant Blade turns sound into your sharpest weapon. Match tones, unleash Triads, and strike down enemies with the power of sonic resonance.

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Game Developer

MAY 19, 2025

'The vibes have never been worse.

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Game From Scratch

MAY 17, 2025

GameFromScratch.com Unreal Engine 5.6 Preview Released A few weeks ahead of the State of Unreal at Unreal Fest 2025 Epic Games have released a new version of Unreal Engine, Unreal Engine 5.6 Preview. This release finally adds MetaHuman integration, a host of animation improvements, an updated UI, performance improvements and more. Sadly the much anticipated new The post Unreal Engine 5.6 Preview Released appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Ask a Game Dev

MAY 15, 2025

It has to do with how software engineering works. Whenever we build a system, that system doesn't typically exist in a vacuum - temporary or not, it exists to handle some particular task or solve some problem. A temporary solution might not handle that task or problem optimally, but it works well enough that the system can function within the greater context of all of the other systems that use it to handle their own tasks/problems.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 15, 2025

Electronic Arts has sent employees a notice that it's scaling back remote working, implementing a new hybrid policy of three days a week in the office.

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Deconstructor of Fun

MAY 12, 2025

My growth is a reflection of the company's growth because Ive always been given an opportunity to grow Justin McFarlane In a recent chat with host Mishka Katkoff, Jackpot Party Casino GM Justin McFarlane shared a career path that breaks the usual mold. He went from 3D artist to running SciPlays Billion Dollar flagship title not by fast-tracking through roles or jumping companies, but by staying with one employer for 17 years and growing into each opportunity along the way.

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Indie DB

MAY 9, 2025

A lone gnome, a sleeping princess and a sea of beer. Take care of your mistress by becoming the manager of the only tavern in the entire Dungeon!

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Game Developer

MAY 28, 2025

EA has reportedly cancelled a game based on the Marvel superhero Black Pantherand laid off its developersin order to 'put [its] creative energy behind the most significant growth opportunities.

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Game From Scratch

MAY 1, 2025

GameFromScratch.com Apple Suffers Major App Store Lawsuit Loss All the way back in August of 2020 Epic Games launched an antitrust lawsuit against Apple mostly revolving around the 30% fees charged by the Apple app store. In response, among other actions such as pulling Fortnite, Apple launched a countersuit. After years of legal battles in April of 2023, The post Apple Suffers Major App Store Lawsuit Loss appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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