Topic: game development
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Why Donkey Kong Bananza Couldn't Run on Switch 1
Donkey Kong Bananza was moved from the original Nintendo Switch to the Switch 2 due to severe performance limitations, which prevented it from achieving its intended quality and highlighted the technical leap between the systems. The game's expansive stage designs and dynamic voxel-based terrain,...
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Metroid Prime Producer Reveals Creative Tensions With Retro Studios
The development of *Metroid Prime* was a collaborative effort between Nintendo and Retro Studios, blending Japanese and Western philosophies to transition the series into a 3D first-person adventure, despite creative clashes and a clear hierarchy with Nintendo having final approval. Key conflicts...
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Marathon's Playtest Was a "Great A/B Test," Says Arc Raiders Director
The simultaneous playtests of Marathon and Arc Raiders provided an unplanned A/B testing scenario, allowing the Arc Raiders team to compare design choices and player reactions within the same genre. This comparative analysis helped the Arc Raiders developers gain insights into player preferences ...
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Spellcasters Chronicles: Quantic Dream's Risky Gamble After Star Wars Eclipse
Quantic Dream is shifting from its signature narrative-driven single-player games to the competitive multiplayer arena with *Spellcasters Chronicles*, a free-to-play 3v3 game focused on strategic spellcasting and team-based combat. The game emphasizes innovation with features like unrestricted fl...
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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2: What Critics Are Saying
After a troubled development, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 has launched with deeply divisive reviews, ranging from 4/10 to 8/10, reflecting its complex journey and split player reception. The game excels in its compelling narrative, well-realized characters, and immersive atmosphere, dr...
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Lost Pokemon Legends: Ho-Oh and Lugia Details Uncovered
The original sequel to Pokémon Legends: Arceus was planned as "Pokémon Legends: Ho-Oh and Lugia," set in Johto and focusing on the origins of Pokémon Trainers, but was changed to the Kalos-based Pokémon Legends: Z-A. Leaked details for the scrapped game included a new PokéRide system allowing mov...
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Heart Machine Announces Staff Layoffs at LA Indie Studio
Heart Machine has laid off a significant portion of its workforce and is winding down development on its early access game, Hyper Light Breaker, citing uncontrollable industry challenges like funding shifts and market uncertainty. The layoffs follow the game's mixed reception on Steam and a previ...
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Everwild Screenshots Leak, Revealing UI and Gameplay
Everwild, an ambitious multiplayer game announced by Rare in 2019, faced significant development challenges and leadership changes before being canceled in 2024 after nearly a decade in development. Recently leaked development screenshots revealed the game's user interface and features, including...
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Nine Sols May Contain a Hidden Game
Players have discovered a hidden horror game within Nine Sols, accessible via a Steam beta code, as part of an alternate reality game hinting at the developer's return to horror roots. The hidden game is a short, first-person horror adventure named "yuukimindscape," focused on rescuing a characte...
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New Lord of the Rings Game Reportedly Rivals Hogwarts Legacy
A new third-person action game set in The Lord of the Rings universe is in development, aiming to compete with the success of Hogwarts Legacy. The project is backed by $100 million in funding from the Abu Dhabi Investment Office and involves Embracer Group and developer Revenge. This initiative i...
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Brotato's Post-Launch Development Now Handled by Evil Empire
Evil Empire, known for their work on *Dead Cells*, has taken over the post-launch development of *Brotato*, the popular roguelike shooter originally created by Blobfish, which has attracted over ten million players since its 2023 release. The first major content update is scheduled for October, i...
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Former WoW Lead Designer Unveils New Multiplayer Game
Bonfire Studios, led by former Blizzard executive Rob Pardo, has announced its debut game Arkheron, a team-based multiplayer action RPG with a competitive structure. The game features 15 teams of three players racing up a tower, collecting loot and abilities for real-time strategy and customizati...
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Ripple Effect on Building Battlefield 6 & Lessons from Battlefield 2042
The latest Battlefield title is developed through a multi-studio collaboration, focusing on console optimization, anti-cheat measures, and learning from past entries to revitalize the series. Players on PlayStation 5 can choose between Performance Mode for higher frame rates and Fidelity Mode for...
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Omani Designer's Viral 1900s Gulf Video Game: Self-Taught via YouTube
He’s not looking to hand over control of his creation to big studios or corporations. Manjusha Radhakrishnan has been slaying entertainment news and celebrity interviews in Dubai for 18 years—and she’s just getting started. She’s walked them all—Europe, North America, Macau—covering IIFA (Bollywood Oscars) and Zee Cine Awards like a pro. Oh, and did we mention she landed the cover of Xpedition Magazine as one of the UAE’s 50 most influential icons? From breaking celeb news to making stars spill ...
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Double Fine Focuses on New IPs, Not Brutal Legend or Psychonauts Sequels
Double Fine Productions is developing multiple original IPs, with no immediate plans for sequels to existing franchises like *Psychonauts* or *Brutal Legend*. Studio head Tim Schafer is personally involved in new projects, focusing on fresh concepts and untold stories rather than revisiting past ...
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Battlefield 6: Will EA's Big Bet Succeed?
Battlefield 6 is EA's strategic attempt to challenge Call of Duty's dominance, backed by record pre-launch excitement but involving a major financial gamble with high development costs. The game is being developed collaboratively by four studios and aims to recover from the poorly received Battle...
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Fahy Studios Secures $1.75M to Launch Global Games from Saudi Arabia
Fahy Studios raised $1.75 million in funding to accelerate development of hybrid-casual mobile games from Saudi Arabia. The studio is actively developing titles including RAWR, Footy Traps, and Heist Party, focusing on engaging gameplay with depth. This investment supports Saudi Arabia's growing ...
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Stability AI & EA Partner to Revolutionize Game Creation
Stability AI and Electronic Arts (EA) have formed a strategic partnership to co-develop generative AI tools and workflows, aiming to empower EA's creative teams and redefine video game development processes. The collaboration will embed Stability AI's 3D research team with EA's developers to enha...
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EA and Stability AI Team Up for AI Game Creation Tools
Electronic Arts is partnering with Stability AI to co-develop advanced AI tools and workflows, aiming to accelerate game development and expand creative possibilities for its teams. The company emphasizes that AI will serve as a partner to handle routine tasks, freeing up human creativity for sto...
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Why Demonschool's Release Date Shift Was Essential
Indie developers face intense challenges in funding and visibility, exemplified by Necrosoft Games delaying Demonschool to avoid competing with Hollow Knight: Silksong, highlighting the strategic decisions needed for a successful launch. Demonschool, a tactical RPG with social simulation elements...
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Palestinian Developers Finally Get Their Platform
Palestinian Voices in Games (PVG) is an initiative launched to support Palestinian game developers through mentorship and resources, addressing their underrepresentation in the global gaming industry by connecting them with over fifty industry professionals. The program operates via a network of ...
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Assembly: The Brutal, Beautiful Path to Better AI
Rollercoaster Tycoon was uniquely programmed entirely in assembly language by Chris Sawyer, allowing for precise control and high performance, which was uncommon for such a complex game. Sawyer chose assembly due to the inefficiency of 1990s development tools, enabling him to bypass slow compiler...
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Over Half of Japanese Game Studios Now Use Generative AI
Over half of Japanese game studios now use generative AI, primarily for creating visual assets, storylines, and programming support, as reported in a 2025 industry survey. The adoption spans major companies like Capcom and Square Enix as well as indie studios, with nearly a third developing propr...
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Halo Combat Evolved Remake Leak Details Unreal Engine 5, Sprint & More
The Halo: Combat Evolved remake will use a hybrid engine combining Unreal Engine 5 for graphics with a modified Blam engine for gameplay, and it will add a sprint mechanic and redesign missions like the repetitive "Library" level. Information comes from a source citing a developer from a co-devel...
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Backers Ghosted as $2.6 Million Cozy Game Vanishes Online
The Kickstarter campaign for "PuffPals: Island Skies" raised over $2.6 million but failed to deliver the game, leaving backers ghosted and facing ignored refund requests amid lawsuits and the company's collapse. A misleading funding total, with much of the money tied to plush toy add-ons rather t...
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Is Ray Tracing Failing to Deliver on Its Promise?
Ray tracing enhances visual realism by simulating light behavior, but its practical benefits are often underutilized or barely noticeable in many games. Despite widespread hardware support from consoles and PCs, adoption is hindered by high computational demands, performance costs, and economic f...
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Tetsuya Mizuguchi: From Pong to VR, Crafting Games That Move You
Tetsuya Mizuguchi's career is defined by merging technology with emotional engagement, as seen in his latest project, Lumines Arise, which brings the musical puzzle series into virtual reality. His philosophy centers on evoking profound emotional responses through games, influenced by early exper...
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Until Dawn: Why It's Still A Horror Masterpiece 10 Years Later
Until Dawn is a benchmark in interactive horror, blending cinematic storytelling with player-driven consequences that create lasting emotional impact and replayability. The game underwent a major development shift from a motion-controlled concept to a cinematic approach, utilizing the Decima engi...
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Inside Nintendo's Design Secrets: The Metroid Prime Art Book
The art book "Metroid Prime 1–3: A Visual Retrospective" offers extensive concept art, cut content, and a chronological visual journey from the original trilogy to the remastered Switch edition, excluding coverage of the upcoming *Metroid Prime 4: Beyond*. It includes insightful commentary from p...
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Relic's Quest for Faster Game Development
Relic Entertainment is now an independent studio focusing on faster development cycles and a more sustainable business model after separating from Sega. The studio is diversifying its approach by embracing rapid prototyping, controlling project scope, and using a unified proprietary engine to imp...
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Metal: Hellsinger Developer The Outsiders Shuts Down
The Outsiders, developer of Metal: Hellsinger, is being shut down by parent company Funcom, ending its ten-year operation as announced by founder David Goldfarb. This closure is part of broader company-wide layoffs at Funcom, following the successful launch of Dune: Awakening, and affects all sta...
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Don't Miss These 5 Hidden Steam Gems (October 2025)
The article highlights five standout games from October 2025 to help navigate the overwhelming number of daily Steam releases. Each game offers a unique experience, ranging from horror and melancholy in Carimara to retro strategy in Dying Breed and Disney-inspired animation in Bye Sweet Carole. O...
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Lost Everwild Screenshots Surface From Artist's Portfolio
Previously unseen images from Rare's cancelled game Everwild have surfaced online, offering a rare look into the project that was first announced in 2019 and later cancelled by Microsoft this year. The leaked screenshots reveal user interface elements, including an inventory with categories like ...
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Ubisoft Canceled Assassin's Creed Game About Fighting the Klan
Ubisoft canceled a planned Assassin's Creed game set in Reconstruction-era America, fearing its themes would be too politically sensitive for modern U.S. audiences. The canceled game would have featured a freed slave confronting systemic racism and groups like the Ku Klux Klan, exploring how raci...
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Halo Art Director Exits With Ominous Final Message
Glenn Israel, a key art director for the Halo franchise, has left Halo Studios after 17 years, hinting at a future explanation for his departure and casting uncertainty on the series. His exit coincides with reports of internal leadership issues and follows a period of studio rebranding, layoffs,...
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Battlefield 6 Performance Tested: 40+ GPU Benchmarks
Battlefield 6 is a near-future first-person shooter featuring a narrative-driven single-player campaign and large-scale multiplayer, developed by DICE and published by EA. Multiplayer supports 64-player matches with dynamic environments, real-time weather, destruction, and both classic and new ta...
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Become a Djent-Fueled Robot Samurai in Morbid Metal's Playtest
Morbid Metal is a roguelike character action game featuring three distinct cyberninjas, procedurally generated stages, and a combo-driven combat system with a style meter. The game emphasizes seamless character swapping during combat for dynamic sequences and was delayed from early access, but a ...
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Top 9 Silent Hill Games You Must Play
The Silent Hill series has defined psychological survival horror for nearly thirty years, with recent releases like the 2024 remake of Silent Hill 2 and Silent Hill f revitalizing interest in the franchise. Key entries introduced innovative mechanics, such as Silent Hill: Origins' reality-shiftin...
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Urgent Unity Security Update Required for All Games
A critical security vulnerability in Unity requires developers using versions 2017.1 or later for Windows, Android, or macOS to update immediately to prevent potential risks like malicious code execution. Unity's partners, including Valve and Microsoft, have implemented security measures, and the...
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Metal Gear Solid Vol. 2 Confirmed at Tokyo Game Show
Konami confirmed Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol. 2 is in active development, with the team prioritizing a polished release after addressing Volume 1's technical issues. The collection is expected to include highly anticipated titles like Metal Gear Solid 4 and Peace Walker, which are cruc...
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Xbox's New Feature Solves PC Gaming's Biggest Annoyance
Microsoft is introducing Advanced Shader Delivery (ASD) to eliminate the shader compilation process, promising a smoother gaming experience by using pre-compiled shaders from a centralized database. Shader compilation, intended to reduce in-game stuttering, often causes frustrating delays as it c...
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Ship of Heroes' $45 Price Tag and $15 Monthly Fee Sparks Backlash
Ship of Heroes, a spiritual successor to City of Heroes, has launched with a controversial pricing model requiring a $45 purchase and a $15 monthly subscription, leading to significant community backlash. The game's high cost has resulted in an alarmingly low player base, peaking at around 100 co...
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Ananta's Anime Bunny Girl Game Blends Spider-Man, Yakuza & GTA
The free-to-play RPG **Ananta**, developed by Naked Rain and published by NetEase, combines an anime aesthetic with a sprawling urban open world, drawing inspiration from major gaming franchises. Its gameplay integrates mechanics from popular titles, featuring fluid Spider-Man-like movement, Arkh...
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Dead Island 3 Teased: The Next Outbreak Is Already Brewing
Dambuster Studios has confirmed development of Dead Island 3 with a teaser hinting at a new location, moving away from the Los Angeles setting of the previous game. The teaser has sparked speculation about the setting, possibly Las Vegas or another unexpected area, and it is unlikely to be relate...
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Bridge Constructor Studio Launches on PC VR & PlayStation
Bridge Constructor Studio has launched on PC VR and PlayStation VR, expanding its physics-based bridge-building challenges to more platforms. Developed by ClockStone Studio, the game features a 70-puzzle campaign across five biomes, with materials like wood and steel, and no stric...
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Wallace & Gromit: The Grand Getaway - Out Now on PS VR2
Wallace & Gromit's new VR adventure, The Grand Getaway, brings the iconic duo into an immersive world filled with chaotic holiday fun, featuring new characters like a Robo Caddy and AI assistant Beryl. The PS VR2 version, developed by multiple studios, retains the core adventure but omits the mix...
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Ninja Gaiden 4: The Perfect Entry Point for Newcomers
Ninja Gaiden 4 introduces a new punk-rock protagonist, Yakumo, whose edgy personality complements the game's aggressive combat style, offering a fresh take while respecting the series' roots. The game features a fluid combat system with responsive attacks, strategic dodging, and a "Ravenbound" mo...
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Keeper: The Xbox Game About a Walking Lighthouse
Keeper is an adventure game where players control a sentient lighthouse that grows legs to explore a fantastical world, dispelling darkness and befriending a bird companion along the way. The gameplay evolves from simple puzzles using the lighthouse beam to more complex mechanics involving time m...
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Battlefield 6 Reverses Multiplayer Change After Fan Backlash
The developers reversed a controversial update to the Conquest mode in Battlefield 6 after significant player criticism, showing responsiveness to community feedback. The rolled-back changes had reduced spawn tickets and shortened match timers, which players felt undermined the mode's strategic, ...
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Sony Rejects Tencent's Defense of Alleged Horizon Rip-Off
Sony accuses Tencent of deliberately copying the Horizon franchise's visual style, audio, characters, and story, including hiring the same composer, and claims this harms the brand significantly. Tencent denies the allegations, arguing their game uses common genre tropes and is not a clone, while...
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