Game Developer

MAY 5, 2025

Scrubbing away the "slop" could reduce opportunities for non-sloppy devs.

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Dev 186

GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 8, 2025

Tripledot Studios has acquired AppLovin's games portfolio for $800 million.

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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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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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Game Developer

MAY 8, 2025

The deal will see UK mobile publisher Tripledot acquire 10 new studios and numerous titles.

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Mobile Mobile Studios 285

GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 8, 2025

The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) has appointed three new members to its board of directors.

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Game Development Game Developer Development Games 116

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 7, 2025

A federal appeals court has denied the FTC's demand to halt Microsoft's $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard.

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GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 9, 2025

It's quite a measure of the incredible status of the Grand Theft Auto franchise – as if anyone needed further convincing – that the announcement of the next instalment being delayed into 2026 quickly turned into a massive wave of hype for the upcoming game.

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Games 109

Indie DB

MAY 9, 2025

Upscale Studio launches Epic Empire: Tower Defense on PS4 and PS5, transforming living rooms into war rooms for players ready to outwit armies of goblins, ogres, and monstrous bosses. Forget cookie-cutter tower defense, this is a battle of wits, heroes.

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Studios 78

Game From Scratch

MAY 7, 2025

GameFromScratch.com JetBrains C++ IDE CLion Free Version Following on the heels of their 2024 release of free versions of their Rider and WebStorm IDEs, JetBrains have announced a new free version of the popular C/C++ IDE CLion. This new version is free for all non-commercial projects and should make it easier for people to access their tools. The post JetBrains C++ IDE CLion Free Version appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Game Developer

MAY 5, 2025

'Protecting yourself from plagiarism accusations' is an unusual reason to preserve your game but here we are.

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Content Games 284

GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 9, 2025

Gamescom Latam broke its own records for attendance this year, as the event welcomed more than 130,000 visitors to São Paulo from April 30 to May 4.

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Indie DB

MAY 3, 2025

The game is now officially in Beta (version 0.5.x), so the Closed Beta can begin.

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Beta Games 69

Game From Scratch

MAY 3, 2025

GameFromScratch.com LimboAI for Godot 4.x LimboAI is a GDExtension for the Godot 4.x game engine that adds behaviour trees and state machine support. These make it easier to create and re-use AI logic in your game. There is also a new Godot Engine asset bundle showcased in the video,the Godot StarNova Bundle on Gumroadbut be The post LimboAI for Godot 4.x appeared first on GameFromScratch.com.

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Game Developer

MAY 5, 2025

The investment is aimed at helping the studio bring its first game, Defect, to the finish line.

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Studios Games 240

GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 9, 2025

Sumo Group has announced the departure of its co-founders CEO Carl Cavers, COO Paul Porter, and director of excellence and integration Darren Mills.

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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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Data Mobile Mobile Platformer 59

Indie DB

MAY 4, 2025

Set in the haunting stillness of your own home, The 18th Attic throws players into a deeply psychological experience where uncovering the truth means confronting the unknown. Your attic holds more than dusty boxes and forgotten furnitureits home.

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Game Developer

MAY 8, 2025

The original Switch also remains on track to become the best-selling Nintendo console in history.

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Console 199

GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 7, 2025

Electronic Arts has published its fourth quarter results (the three months ended March 31, 2025), which "significantly exceeded expectations" according to CEO Andrew Wilson.

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Ask a Game Dev

MAY 5, 2025

There's nothing stopping a candidate from doing this, but I've never done this before myself. Just because I happened to be "good enough" last time doesn't mean that the criteria or the competition for the position have remained the same. I know I certainly haven't - I'm constantly leveling up and improving my skills at work, which means that a new design test often allows me a new opportunity to improve on my old design ideas or come up with an alternative/new solution that fits the test/theme

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Indie DB

MAY 7, 2025

We just released our first video teaser of our game Fish Stick Protocol, and feel like it's the right moment to spread the word about our online multiplayer co-op chaotic game.

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Co-op Games 62

Game Developer

MAY 7, 2025

A primer on how to simulate long exposure photography in Unreal Engine.

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Simulation Engineering Engine 201

GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 7, 2025

Jens Andersson, the design director behind last year's Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, has a long history of working on first-person games that don't play anything like a standard FPS.

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First person FPS Games 92

Cocos

MAY 8, 2025

Hi everyone! Im working on a UI system in Cocos Creator 3.8.6 , and Im trying to implement localization for multiple languages (e.g. English, Cyrillic) while using the same texture/atlas for rendering styled text. My goal is to render all supported characters as part of a single texture atlas - not switching fonts per language, to maintain consistent visuals (style, color, effects).

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Indie DB

MAY 5, 2025

This is the gold update for our game "Way of the Cards" for EECS494 at the University of Michigan! Update consists of bug fixing, balancing, aesthetics, and audio.

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Balance Bug Games 72

Game Developer

MAY 8, 2025

We hope our fans understand that these changes are necessary in order to prevent further disruptions to the development of Palworld.

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Development 196

GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 8, 2025

A US court has denied the United States government's Federal Trade Commission (FTC) appeal against the decision to allow Microsoft to acquire Activision Blizzard.

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Ask a Game Dev

MAY 8, 2025

Once, one of my coworkers printed out "temporary" hacks in our codebase and taped them to his body to be his Halloween costume. I have a t-shirt printed with the "temporary" hacks in the code base. The name "Grey Wardens" from Dragon Age was a temporary name put in place when leadership couldn't decide on a "real" name that eventually became permanent.

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Astral Clock Tower Studios

MAY 9, 2025

Were insanely hype to add even more epicness to your weekend with the launch of a brand-new, updated demo for your favorite feline-driven ARPG. That's right! A reimagined introduction to the world of Ailur is officially LIVE MEOW on Steam!

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Demo 52

Game Developer

MAY 7, 2025

Employees at the new studio previously worked on Destiny, Halo, Fortnite, and League of Legends.

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Studios 178

GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 8, 2025

The second trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6 reached a milestone of over 475 million views across all platforms in its first day, according to publisher Rockstar Games, surpassing recent blockbuster film trailers like Deadpool & Wolverine and Fantastic Four: First Steps.

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Film Platformer Games 80

Game Wisdom

MAY 8, 2025

Six Varieties of Indie Games Josh Bycer josh@game-wisdom.com width="560" height="314" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" Each indie showcase looks at the variety of games we cover on the channel. Games shown are either press keys, demos, or from my collection. 00:00 Intro 00:14 Duck Detective The Secret Salami 1:34 Void Carrier 2:56 … The post Six Varieties of Indie Games appeared first on Game Wisdom.

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Cocos

MAY 8, 2025

Using cocos creator 2.4.5, I dont know if it is my problem (wrong settings), when I tried to create a sprite and a sphere, both at position 0,0: I expect I can see the half sphere only because the sprite should block another half of the sphere, but now it seems not in preview : the whole sphere seems always on the top of the sprite when rendering, and when running the scene: The whole sphere is still on the top of the sprite.

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Sprite Render 52

Game Developer

MAY 9, 2025

View this Omdia on-demand webinar and get the answers the most pressing questions facing the gaming industry in 2025.

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Games 150

GamesIndustry.biz

MAY 9, 2025

Last month, Twin Sails Interactive spun off from the Asmodee Group as part of a "strategic management buyout".

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Development 71