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Five lessons from the founders' founder, and how success changes founders

Here's the thing about game development - we plan for modularity (meaning that it should be possible to make each major part independently and at the same time as the other major parts). For example,...

The company has also divested or shuttered a number of key studios such as Double Fine, Compulsion, Tango Gameworks, and more in recent years.

The National Videogame Museum has launched a UK-wide survey aimed at mapping the state of video game preservation across the country. Read more

Rebecka Coutaz joined DICE at a very difficult point in the storied Swedish developer's history. Read more

Sony Interactive Entertainment is reportedly surveying developers to find out their thoughts on the decision to end disc support for its PlayStation console. Read more

The CEO of Wardogs maker Bulkhead, Joe Brammer, has clarified his remarks on crunch. Read more

The CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella, has said that the company's Xbox division needs to "invent" the correct "sustainable business model" to allow it to reach more and more people with its games. Read...

We go deep on the popular PC handheld. Also: the latest news & this week on Steam.

Sure. I'll tell you about a very important lesson I learned years ago. Once upon a time, I was working on a mature (read: years-old) MMOG - one that had a solid audience and was profitable. It paid th...

XDS Spark co-founder Sam Carlisle and GDC Festival of Gaming content marketing manager Beth Elderkin discuss the evolving world of co-development.

The full line-up of this year's GamesIndustry.biz HR Summit has been announced, featuring keynotes from Sarah Venables, founder of the HR Confidence Club; Jonny Hopper, CEO of Glowmade Studio; and Har...

'This is an important step for King, the gaming industry and for the Swedish model.'

Danish studio Trophy Games has acquired Airport Simulator: First Class developer Playrion from Paradox Interactive. Read more

Meta has revealed two AI-powered game tools that let players develop 2D and 3D games using prompts on mobile devices and browsers. Read more

Asha Sharma marked the conclusion of her first hundred days as Xbox CEO with a public blog post in which she called for the next hundred days to be a "reset" of the business. Highlighting the division...

We might be long past the days of games companies raising eye-watering figures on Kickstarter, but the platform is still a viable way to raise money to fund – at last part of – your game....

MindsEye developer Build A Rocket Boy has appointed administrators following its most recent wave of layoffs. Read more

King has signed a collective agreement with the Swedish trade unions Unionen and Sveriges Ingenjörer after last week’s call to industrial action. Read more

Nintendo of America has won $4.5 million in damages from Reddit user James C. Williams, also known as 'Archbox,' for copyright violations. Read more

Disney Solitaire's Big Win and Playtika's Earn-Out Trap

The price of game hardware is absolutely affecting game dev. The vast majority of games are developed with target performance bands in mind:High end, where the game is performant with all of the bells...

There will be new Tetris Effect, Beat Saber, and Ace Attorney games coming to the platform as well.

Original story: The Dutch consumer group Stichting Massaschade & Consument (SMC) has filed a class action lawsuit against Epic Games, alleging it has misled young Fortnite players. Read more

Francis will step into the role starting October 1st following Thomas Andren's recent appoint as general manager for the creative network.

In March 2022, Atari acquired the video game database MobyGames. Read more

Developers in the region will now be able to take advantage of a Development Fund, Prototype Fund, and Release Fund.

TinyBuild reported an 18% revenue increase to $20 million for the six months ending June 30, 2026, driven by "strong catalogue performance and new launches." Read more

Microsoft has patented an "ad-credit" system to display adverts and announcements during PC and Xbox game sessions without disrupting gameplay. Read more

Very. Most AAA engines support it in some way, primarily because it saves a lot of dev time if we don't have to restart the game in order to see changes made. If I make a change to a script, I want to...

Discord says it has built an age estimation model based on 'account signals' to determine an user's age group.

Bethesda boss Jill Braff has written to all staff to confirm that Grounded developer Obsidian Entertainment will remain a "distinct" team, retaining its existing leadership structure. Read more

Bethesda president Jill Braff is reportedly calling Obsidian's merging with Bethesda 'primarily a change in reporting structure.'

Age of Empires studio World's Edge has been hit with layoffs following its transition to Activision, with "just under half" of employees affected. Read more

Microsoft signalled its intent to divest the Seattle-based studio earlier this year.
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Undead Labs has announced its independence and is now operating as an "employee-owned game development studio." Read more

On September 17, the EU Commission published a draft for the proposed EU KIDS Act – which stands for Keeping Internet Digital Spaces Accountable and Trustworthy. The most controversial stipulati...

A new game publisher, PUBLSH, has been established by former leadership from marketing agency Petrol. Read more

PC and PlayStation unit sales increased 13% to 21 million in Japan during the first half of 2026, led by Resident Evil Requiem. Read more

Discord has re-launched its age verification process for all users, introducing alternative methods that do not require video selfies or ID. Read more
We’re going to right this wrong! Also: notable news & the GameDiscoverCo Show returns.

'If we don't create margin we can't continue to invest in software, and our software costs are going up every year—significantly.'

Original story: Xbox has transferred legendary UK studio Rare and ownership of the Halo franchise to Activision, announced the imminent closure of Ninja Theory, and enacted sweeping cuts at Halo Studi...

Battlestate Games Publishing aims to provide publishing support to 'hardcore' games.

It's all smiles over at Secret Mode right now. Since breaking free from Sumo Digital (and its parent Tencent) last year, the newly independent UK publisher has been going great guns. Read more

Activision is developing the next Halo title, and Ninja Theory is being shuttered.

IO Interactive said it "had no choice" but to delay the launch of 007 First Light on Nintendo Switch 2 for a third time, with the game now set to release in March 2027. Read more

Official Rockstar storylines, characters, and other elements from the studio's 'established continuity' are off-limits.

Three months after Destiny 2's final update, Bungie has announced plans to reinstate vaulted campaigns, raids, and destinations to regain player trust. Read more

UPDATE: Microsoft has confirmed the loss of 268 jobs amid a sweeping reorganisation of its internal studios, including the proposed closure of Ninja Theory. Read more
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Wir haben uns mit TT Games getroffen, um herauszufinden, wie UE5-Funktionen wie World Partition, das Gameplay Fertigkeitssystem und andere ihnen geholfen haben, ihre Vision für eine Open-World-Gotham...

This is a story of how an operator accidentally burned his boats, and how no-turning-back worked in real life.

This is essentially what governments do to keep their own internal programs running. Have you ever wondered why government agencies often run ancient computers? It's not because they can't buy new stu...

'Destiny is foundational to Bungie's future.'

PM Studios has been doing physical game publishing for a long time. In its early days, around 20 years ago, the Las Vegas-based publisher brought the Korean rhythm-action series DJMax to the US, and s...

A mutant marriage goes unmentioned in some parts of the world.

Activision's Team Ricochet, which manages Call of Duty's anti-cheat initiative, recently cited data that claimed cheating in games is an $8.5 billion industry. Read more

Even celebrated auteurs have to pay bank loans on time.

Tokyo Game Show's 30th anniversary badged itself as "the longest five days of nonstop play", a showcase of the future of gaming. In reality, the event in Japan's largest gaming convention center, Maku...

The company is known for publishing titles such as Caravan SandWitch and The Forgotten City.

The 2026 Green Games Jam Awards, hosted by Playing for the Planet, were presented last week at BFI Southbank, recognising developers for achievements in "sustainable game development and environmental...

Hideo Kojima didn't think Physint "would be on the list of being cancelled" by Sony, as it is "the biggest-selling title [he] could possibly create." Read more

Realtime Raytracing in Bevy 0.20 (Solari) announces a rewrite of Bevy’s realtime pathtracer for the upcoming release introduces unified ReSTIR that merges direct and indirect...

We’re excited about this JPG, cos we’re weird. Also: lotsa news & this week on Steam.

A Shanghai court ruling may signal how Chinese courts will rule on genAI usage.

Seven years after launching Control, Remedy returns to a paranatural Manhattan with Control Resonant. Read more

ARM's Peter Hodges joins us for a conversation about game development tools and the 1969 7-minute short film Lemon.

With tens of thousands of jobs lost across industry in the past few years, to say this is a demoralising time to be working in video games would be something of an understatement. Read more

Unionized employees at the Candy Crush studio will down tools on September 25 if the impasse cannot be overcome.
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Swedish trade unions Unionen and Sveriges Ingenjörer have issued a strike notice against King after executives rejected a proposed collective bargaining agreement last month. Read more

We are delighted to confirm the first round of facilitated discussion sessions at this year's GamesIndustry.biz HR Summit, sponsored by Amiqus, which will be held next month at the Royal Institution i...

There's been a lot of talk in recent years about the effect that the inflation of development budgets has had on the industry. As budgets in the hundreds of millions of dollars have become common, cra...

Some may argue Grand Theft Auto 6 does not require a marketing campaign, but Take-Two Interactive president Strauss Zelnick emphasised that established brands need to maintain awareness. Read more

Dredge creator Black Salt Games has launched a new studio, Team Trifold, alongside a new white-label publisher called Saltworks Entertainment which will provide services to both studios along with fel...

GDC Festival of Gaming has appointed four new members to its advisory board. Read more

We typically won't request others to do work without reason. If the gameplay programmer needs some kind of engine function to do her own work, then yeah - she's totally allowed (and expected) to reque...

Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick says 'we cannot convince people something that something that's bad is good.'

The EU Commission has published a draft for the proposed EU KIDS Act. While the most controversial stipulations – namely a ban for under 13's and restrictions for under 15 year old kids –...

'This investment gives us the resources to bring active play to millions more families around the world.'

Nex has secured $150 million in funding as sales of its family-oriented active console, Nex Playground, exceed one million units. Read more

The studio has downsized significantly in recent years and has now reached an existential crossroads.
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Hyper Light Drifter developer Heart Machine is at risk of shutting down after a publishing deal collapsed. Read more

With over a million units sold, and approaching a million paying subscribers using them, the next step in Nex Playground's global expansion – backed by fresh investmnent and an expanded leadersh...

Control Resonant releases on September 24, some seven years after 2019's Control. Much has changed for the sequel, notably a switch of main character from Jesse Faden to Dylan Faden, her brother. The...

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The available evidence does not support this theory. If my primary target audience is Marvel moviegoers without a lot of game experience who want a movie-like Wolverine experience, I would absolutely...

Multiple staff on the studio have written farewell posts on social media over the past 24 hours.
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Scottish studio Build a Rocket Boy has reportedly initiated another round of job cuts. Read more

The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (AIAS) has announced that Resident Evil creator, Shinji Mikami, will be inducted into its Hall of Fame next year. Read more
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Goichi Suda will be presenting the award to the Resident Evil director.

A woman who worked at the studio for 14 years has accused 10 men of sexual misconduct and retaliation.

We are thrilled to reveal the finalists for the special awards at the UK GamesIndustry.biz Best Places To Work Awards 2026. Read more

Publishing house 1312 Interactive has secured $1 million in a seed funding round. Read more

Criterion's future is not like its past. Read more

Bohemia Interactive has secured an undisclosed minority stake in Polish developer Enjoy Studio, creator of co-op FPS survival RPG Everwind. Read more

Games media publisher Hookshot has launched Steam Hype, a new PC-focused media outlet. It is the fifth site launched by Hookshot – in which GamesIndustry.biz parent IGN Entertainment holds a min...

“Another development snapshot already? Didn’t they just release one last Friday?” Indeed, this is much sooner than usual. Even when taking into consideration how development snapshots become more freq...

Two ways to approach the question. Also: game discovery news & this week’s Show.

There is absolutely a place for player handholding as a development goal, but it varies significantly depending on the genre and target audience. When the game's target audience skews toward less expe...

Roblox will soon let developers bring games to other platforms, though they'll still 'benefit from the same revenue-share economics' of the Roblox app.

Christian Fonnesbech is a well-known name in the North European games industry. He was previously head of IP development at Nordisk Film Games, but in 2019 he founded Leverage in Copenhagen to help ga...

I want to give people a little bit of insight into what the optimization process looks like for Godot’s renderer. From the outside, rendering optimization can look a little bit like black magic. I wan...

Bungie says addressing player feedback requires the team to 'change both what we're building and how we deliver it,'

Sega and Netflix have formed a multi-title partnership to adapt Crazy Taxi, Sonic, and Stranger Than Heaven. Read more

Update: CEO Joe Brammer says he was 'speaking informally' about the studio's culture and environment.

Team17 owner Everplay expects strong full-year results, as Bulkhead's Wardogs and Expression Games' Hell Let Loose: Vietnam are outperforming expectations. Read more

Washington secretary of state Steve Hobbs pitched developers on the notion of video games as 'soft power' during SLICE and PAX West 2026.

Curve Games has partnered with independent developer Wayfinder Studios to publish Wyldheart, its online co-op RPG. Read more

'We want to make the best games we can together.'

Michal Nowakowski on the week Cyberpunk 2077 broke, the deal that built CD PROJEKT RED

Our internal goals of closed and open beta are different, mostly due to the logistics involved. Closed beta is primarily about gathering feedback from testers and fine-tuning the player experience. Op...

Level-5 president and CEO Akihiro Hino has apologized after confirming that generative AI was used in the studio's recent digital showcase. Read more

Valve has opened a waiting list for its new VR system, Steam Frame. Read more

Cost is increasingly blamed for gamers choosing to cancel their Xbox Game Pass, PlayStation Plus, and Nintendo Switch Online subscriptions. Read more

Rockstar and the Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain have set out their arguments at an ongoing employment tribunal expected to run until October 16. Read more

PlayStation reportedly discontinued its involvement with Kojima Productions' Physint due to "concerns over budget, potential profitability, and exclusivity." Read more

Roblox will enable creators to publish their games on mobile, PC, and console through the Roblox Everywhere initiative. Read more

The name Bob Mortimer might not mean much to those who haven't lived in the UK, but he's a huge deal in the world of British comedy. Read more

Blizzard Entertainment has announced that the next StarCraft title will shift from real-time strategy to an open-world first-person shooter. Read more

Moss developer Polyarc Games is shutting down after 12 years in operation. Read more

[video] Offscreen Rendering // Vulkan For Beginners #33 demonstrates offscreen rendering in Vulkan as an alternative to rendering directly to the swapchain explains how swapchain re...
Also: oodles of news & this week’s biggies on Steam.

It doesn't actually have that much to do with Unreal Engine itself so much as it is more about how many games have a certain similar "look" that is characterized by realistic lighting, lower color sat...

There’s a really important piece of context that looms behind every decision, every announcement, and every news story about PlayStation or Xbox at the moment. It’s a ticking clock; a coun...

The rise of unions in the video games industry has been a hot topic over the past decade, as more and more workers seek protection for their rights in the face of harsh working conditions and manageme...

In 2025, European studios increased spending on external roles by 63%, outpacing the global growth rate of 55%. Read more

Insomniac Games' take on Wolverine has had an eventful route to market. Read more

Saber Interactive has achieved a lot in the past few years, but the most noticeable recent news to come out of the the company was CEO Matthew Karch's unfiltered response to accusations that a writer...

Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) is reportedly planning to combine Electronic Arts with its subsidiary, Savvy Games Group. Read more

Saber Interactive's chief creative officer, Tim Willits, has said that the company has "no real development in North America any more." Read more

As we’re hoping to enter feature freeze later in the month, you can expect this to be one of the last development snapshot highlights of the 4.8 cycle. Relatedly, many of our contributors are currentl...

Most RPGs are single player or cooperative, so competition isn't really a thing. Competitive RPG games tend to be MMOGs, in which case the player's capacity for burst damage tends to matter more than...

It's been nine years since Mike Rose set up the indie publisher No More Robots. Read more

Rockstar's preview of Grand Theft Auto 6 on Netflix generated over 100,000 sign-ups in the US during its six-hour exclusivity window on August 27, making it the platform's third-largest subscriber spi...

Tim Willits, chief creative officer at Saber Interactive, has given his own take on CEO Matthew Karch's response to accusations that a writer at the company had been replaced with ChatGPT. Read more

Live-service and evergreen titles were flat or declined year-over-year in the first half of 2026 compared to 2025, according to Newzoo data. Read more

Xbox will publish Kojima Productions' upcoming title Physint after the developer "unexpectedly received notice from PlayStation Studios that they would cancel the Physint project" in mid-June. Read mo...

Blizzard Entertainment has secured a first union contract with parent company Microsoft, ratified by a workforce vote covering just under 1,900 staff. Read more

Lego Digital Play has acquired Offroad Games. Read more

Epic Games will require Australian players to confirm they're 18 or older before downloading or buying R18+ rated titles on the Epic Games Store, starting September 9. Read more

Mark Cerny and Geoff Keighley have launched the Nova Games Foundation, a philanthropic fellowship program aimed at funding young game designers. Read more

Keywords Studios has launched FreeAnimal, a new organisation combining seven of its creative agencies, to serve as a single point of contact for developers, publishers, and brands. Read more

Over the past 12 years, Polish studio One More Level has carved out a niche in the world of AA games with projects whose production values often approach those of AAA titles. Its eye-catching 2020 cyb...

Frontier Developments has reported record financial results following its June trade update. Read more

Gamescom Asia x Thailand Game Show has announced its exhibitor lineup for this year's event, including Capcom, Bandai Namco, and The Pokémon Company, as well as Nintendo and PlayStation represe...

Achievements for unreleased and unannounced games on Steam have been leaked, including Fable, Persona 6, Kingdom Hearts 4, and Control Resonant. Read more

Hey! We are now in the “-ber months” which means I get so many questions about horror games. I love horror games. I still think every indie should release at least one horror game (yes 3 y...

We’ve got data. Unsurprisingly. Also: lots of news & new GameDiscoverCo Show.

Let's take it back to first principles. Consider the [information channels] we have to convey information to players, such as:Visual cuesAudio cuesPeripheral vision cuesHaptic/Rumble cuesThese channel...

Club Penguin – the Disney-owned, Flash-based MMO, which ran from 2005 to 2017 – was a formative experience for a generation of children. Stephen MacDonald, who was a senior manager at Disn...

Swedish developer Star Stable Entertainment has laid off 20% of its employees following a restructuring program. Read more

61% of European game developers are concerned that generative AI will place them under pressure to work faster and produce more, but only 35% think that AI might cause them to lose their job or reduce...

The Tetris Company has issued a statement regarding a US government-made parody of its tile-matching puzzle game, which has since been removed. Read more

FuturLab has laid off seven employees following the cancellation of a project unrelated to PowerWash Simulator. Read more

Remakes and rereleases drove games revenue in July, with Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced debuting in second on PC and fourth on console in Newzoo's charts. Read more

Today, the British semiconductor and software design company Arm is holding the Arm Everywhere China event in Shanghai to unveil its latest contributions to the AI computing landscape. Read more

What Türkiye built, who built it, and what happens next. I asked Akin Babayigit, and he gave unfiltered answers.

It's better to take a step back and look at where a game idea is before we enter preproduction and then where it is once we finish preproduction. Before we enter preproduction, the project is in the C...

Don't Nod has warned there is "material uncertainty" over its ability to continue operating beyond January 31, 2027, unless it secures further external financing. Read more

Capcom has revealed it will focus on reactivating dormant intellectual property following a strong launch for Onimusha: Way of the Sword. Read more

Stronghold developer Firefly is the latest developer to move into publishing, debuting a new strategy-focused label Wuselfaktory and its first title Fool King as part of UKIE's For One Night Only show...

Sega cancelled its live-service Super Game initiative earlier this year as "taking on this challenge at this time would be too risky." Read more

Double Fine Productions' boss Tim Schafer recently explained how the studio avoided closure following significant layoffs at Xbox, stating, "no one puts Double Fine out of business except for me." Rea...

Compact Neural Appearance Models for Efficient Gaussian Splatting presents an efficient appearance framework and a compact neural model for 3D Gaussian Splatting compares spherical...

Also: just an avalanche of news, and this week’s top Steam debuts.

It doesn't (or at least shouldn't) work like that. That would basically mean we were asleep at the wheel for roughly six months of live service (launch + 3 months for patch 1 + 3 months for patch 2)....
Erfahre, wie Shapefarm mit der UE5 im Weltraum-Abenteuerspiel „Orbitals“ den klassischen Anime-Look der 80er und 90er Jahre wiederbelebt hat. Finde heraus, wie benutzerdefinierte Shader und durch Film...

I was part of an employee furlough early in my career. The studio ran out of money. "Furlough" sounds better than "laid off" - the difference is that we were technically still "employed" if the studio...
Lebst du in der EMEA-Region? Die Unreal Engine Dev Days kommen in eine Stadt in deiner Nähe und bringen Unreal Engine-Entwickler zum Lernen, Vernetzen und Austauschen von Ideen zusammen.

Today we’re launching the next version of the itch app with a handful interesting features that have been requested a few times over the years. Here are the highlights of v26.20.0 . Steam shortcuts...
Wir haben uns mit dem Warschauer Studio unterhalten, um mehr über sein Debütprojekt und seine Entscheidung zu erfahren, die Unreal Engine 5 dafür zu verwenden.

We look at GDCo Pro’s wishlist leaderboards. Also: new GameDiscoverCo Show & lotsa news..

"Table stakes" are features players expect any game in the genre to ship with, despite generally being unmemorable or uninteresting. That's what makes them "table stakes" - we have to build them just...

How licensing deals are actually won, and what studios keep getting wrong with Mattel's Global Head of Digital

First, let me put on my speculation hat. I don't pretend to know for certain and I have no data. This is all speculation on my part.Let's examine what generally makes a Souls-like game and consider wh...

DLSS 5: Generative Neural Rendering presents DLSS 5 as a real-time generative neural rendering stage that complements rendering with learned visual expectations introduces 3D-guided...
Entdecke kostenlose Lerninhalte von Epic, die alles von vernetzter Physik und Funktionen wie Mesh-Gelände bis hin zu Tipps für wichtige Workflows wie Projektoptimierung, Materialerstellung und mehr ab...

Also: news news news, and Steam’s new games this week

The reason Dawngate's system worked wasn't the voting on its own. Lots of games have post-game voting systems for player karma - FF14, Overwatch, Rainbow Six Siege, and many others. In these other ga...
Das City Beispielprojekt wurde für die Unreal Engine 5.8 mit komplett neuen Levels aktualisiert, die die jüngsten Fortschritte in der Engine nutzen, sowie mit einer Kollektion zusätzlicher Toolsets, I...

Unfortunately, Dawngate's other features weren't sticky enough in a market that was flooded with other options. They didn't gain enough players to reach their target numbers over their first five mont...

Those of you who follow our development blogposts closely might’ve noticed that the past few snapshots have been a little on the light side. This isn’t to say that there was a lack of features on disp...

In such a situation, it isn't the game itself that's toxic. We choose the words we use and the actions we take, just like we choose the buttons we press. There are options we can take as designers to...
Wir haben uns mit Ryan McFall, Technical Director von Bit Reactor, zusammengesetzt, um herauszufinden, warum das Studio für sein Debütprojekt die Unreal Engine 5 gewählt hat und welche UE5-Funktionen...

We got data! Also: lots of discovery news & the newest GameDiscoverCo Show.
byProd, Madrigal’s authoring tool and runtime library for interactive audio and music in games, visualizations and other applications is now available in open beta. Originally created as Timbre,...

At long last, a performance issue with high polling rate mice on Windows has been fixed in Godot, starting with the recently released Godot 4.7.2. This article describes how the fix works, and why it’...

Jon Bellamy took over Jagex the Runescape company, and Alexis Bonte took over Stillfront. Here’s what they had to say about being a CEO.

AI companion apps are one of mobile's fastest-growing categories. Here’s how to retention looks like in AI Companion Games…

From Research to Recognition: Meet the SIGGRAPH 2026 Student Research Competition Winners highlights winning projects of the SIGGRAPH 2026 Student Research Competition each winner s...

Godot 3.6.2 has been our recommended stable LTS version of 3.x for a while now, but the time has come to make a new build, primarily due to changes in requirements for Android and iOS. Google Play now...

This is the final installment in my blog series about the new Golden Age of games. Valve just revealed its Best Sellers list for July 2026 and all this week I am looking at some of the games...

And why was it a hit? Also: the latest discovery news & this week on Steam...

This is the second installment in my blog series about the new Golden Age of games. Valve just revealed its Best Sellers list for July 2026 and all this week I am looking at some of the games that mad...

Marketers are struggling to find new channels. WEBTOON's Christine Yoo and Square Enix's Melanie Gordon explain why a comics app belongs on the list:

Has it already been a whole month since the last 4.7 maintenance release? How time flies… Well, no time to dwell on the past; let’s instead dwell on the present with yet another maintenance release: G...

Affan Butt on how relationships built years before a deal even exists, from Loom Games' $1B sale to Scopely to Supercell's SoftBank raise.

Valve just revealed their Best sellers list for July 2026 The amazing thing is how many of the featured games were made by small teams who made games smaller and faster. July was full of “great conjun...

Also in the mix: latest GameDiscoverCo show & lots of news.

Variable rate ray tracing in call of duty: modern warfare 4 presents a system for reallocating rays more efficiently built around supersampling where temporal history is missing, un...
Showcase your Godot Engine 2026 creations! We invite you to submit videos featuring your published or in-progress games or tools so we can make the Godot 2026 Showreel. Our annual showreels are inform...
Also: a whole chunk of discovery news &