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Warhorse Studios, the developer of the Kingdom Come: Deliverance games, says a cyberattack gave unauthorized access to its systems and data. The studio is still working out the full extent of the breach.
gamedeveloper.com9h ago2 min read
NVIDIA has detailed the developer tooling for RTX Spark, its new Windows PC platform built on a Blackwell RTX GPU and Grace CPU. The post covers DLSS, ACE, RTX Kit, Nsight, an Unreal Engine 5.8 branch and a MotionBricks update.
developer.nvidia.com13h ago4 min read
3D Environment Artist Arjun Perayil detailed how he built the Hearth and Hillside scene in Unreal Engine 5 for 80 Level. The breakdown covers blockout, landscape materials, a vertex-painted master wall shader and hand-built vegetation.
80.lv13h ago3 min read
Epic CEO Tim Sweeney said on X that Epic is working to remove the EULA restriction on training AI with output from Unreal Engine and MetaHuman. Individual games can still allow or restrict AI training under their developers' own terms.
gamedeveloper.com13h ago2 min read
GameMaker has announced that its next-generation runtime, GMRT, will be free for commercial use from January 1, 2027. Source code access will extend to every license tier, while console export rules and tier pricing stay the same.
80.lv5d ago2 min read
Unity has released MethodReload, an experimental package that swaps in edited method bodies without a domain reload, in the Editor and on IL2CPP development players. It covers small gameplay tweaks only and runs a subset of C#.
unity.com5d ago3 min read
A community roundup of recent Unreal Engine source commits says the ue6-main branch no longer supports the VS2022 compiler. It also lists fixes on ue5-main, including one for a Mac editor crash, that 5.8 users may want to cherry-pick.
reddit.com8d ago2 min read
Swedish studio Liquid Swords, maker of Samson, is in bankruptcy and its administrator is taking bids for its IP and development assets. All 27 employees are being dismissed.
gamesindustry.biz8d ago2 min read
Members of Activision Quality Assurance United-CWA have authorised a strike if necessary, saying Activision has not bargained in good faith. Activision disputes that and says it has made meaningful progress.
gamesindustry.biz8d ago2 min read
Environment artist Zeqi Mu described in an 80 Level interview how he made a forest ground material from procedural nodes alone in Substance 3D Designer. The write-up covers a spline-based root system and the Shape splatter v2 node, and may be useful for artists building tileable organic materials.
80.lv8d ago3 min read
Godot 4.8 Beta 1 is out, with a reworked editor UI, a native Trail3D node and mip-level texture streaming. It is a beta and not for production use, per GameFromScratch.
gamefromscratch.com8d ago2 min read
PEGI is moving existing digital-only games that include paid random items, such as loot boxes, up to a PEGI 16 rating if they currently sit at PEGI 3, 7 or 12. Publishers with affected titles should expect rating changes through October.
gamesindustry.biz8d ago2 min read
RocketWerkz and Ahwoo, both founded by Dean Hall, have announced the open source release of BRUTAL, a C# framework for building your own engine or game from scratch. It is free for commercial use, but it asks for more hands-on programming than an engine like Godot.
gamedeveloper.com8d ago3 min read
Brunch Studio has posted breakdowns of the Valorant: Through the Cracks cinematic, which introduced the Summit map. They show the Maya and Houdini work and how the shots changed from concept sketch to final render.
80.lv8d ago2 min read
Wizards of the Coast has declined to voluntarily recognize a union drive by its Dungeons & Dragons and Studio X teams. Staff will vote in a National Labor Relations Board election instead.
gamesindustry.biz8d ago2 min read
A developer has released Ultimate Jelly, a jelly shader for Unity 6 on the Asset Store, and explained how it works in a Reddit post. The approach centres on a thickness texture and has four quality levels, including one aimed at XR and mobile.
reddit.com8d ago2 min read
The Japan Actors Union has published guidelines on unauthorised generative AI replication of voice work, centred on consent and extra pay. It also says it wants the rules adopted industry-wide and backed by legislation.
gamesindustry.biz8d ago2 min read
Epic has released the Unreal Engine 5.8.4 hotfix with fixes across the editor, rendering, Movie Render Pipeline, MetaHuman and platform tooling. Visual Studio 2026 users get native .slnx solution handling, and one known issue is already listed.
forums.unrealengine.com8d ago3 min read
A Reddit user compared Steam games that passed 200 reviews with ones stuck under 10 and found five store-page habits that separated them. The poster says the data shows correlation only, and the post also promotes the author's own free page checker.
reddit.com11d ago2 min read
Dean Hall's studio RocketWerkz has made its in-house BRUTAL framework publicly available, free to use in commercial games with credit. It is a framework rather than an engine, built on C# and Vulkan.
80.lv11d ago2 min read
Sega and Creative Assembly are temporarily withdrawing the Shogun 2 remaster days after launch, following heavily negative Steam reviews over AI upscaling and performance. The case shows how quickly player reaction to AI-processed assets can force a remaster off the shelves.
gamesindustry.biz11d ago2 min read
German developer Fishlabs has cut jobs in its development and support teams, according to GamesIndustry.biz. The studio has not said how many people are affected.
gamesindustry.biz11d ago2 min read
Unity's blog describes how a four-person team builds Foxy Dumplings for PC, consoles and mobile from one project and one branch. The write-up covers architecture, input, profiling, cloud saves and a move to Unity 6.3 LTS.
unity.com11d ago4 min read
Fuse Games CEO Matt Webster says Star Wars: Galactic Racer was made by a core team that stayed small, with outside studios scaling capacity in three tiers. He warns the model has to be built into a studio from the start.
gamesindustry.biz11d ago3 min read
Veteran World Designer Nathan Cheever has published a follow-up on 80 Level on how to plan open-world cities, using Mafia 3's New Bordeaux as the main example. It is a practical look at settling routes, landmarks and world states before costly environment art begins.
80.lv11d ago3 min read
CD Projekt Red says it has a coherent world vision for Project Hadar, its first fully original IP. The team is prototyping gameplay, but the project has not entered pre-production, so a release is still years away.
80.lv12d ago2 min read
Ubisoft has begun talks with its Works Council on a proposed voluntary departure plan across its Düsseldorf, Berlin and Mainz studios. The cuts would be about 100 roles and extend the company's ongoing cost-reduction effort.
gamesindustry.biz12d ago2 min read
Epic Games has put a rewritten version of its launcher into preview, and says it was built with AI. One early Reddit report says Unreal Engine project access has regressed, so Unreal developers should check it before switching.
reddit.com12d ago3 min read
Maxon has released ZBrush 2027.0, adding a UV Editor based on Cinema 4D's technology and support for Selection Sets. ZBrush for iPad 2027.0 gains Spotlight and 3D Layers, narrowing the gap with desktop.
cgchannel.com12d ago3 min read
Epic Games says it is reworking Easy Anti-Cheat to give Linux protection closer to Windows, and that Fortnite will follow on Linux. Other developers are meant to get the same improvements, which could matter for multiplayer games that skip Linux and Steam Deck.
80.lv12d ago2 min read
Bloomberg reports that Epic Games has delayed its Star Wars and Marvel shooter as the project shifts to an "AI-first" model. Epic CEO Tim Sweeney confirmed a company-wide AI pivot but did not address the Disney game.
gamedeveloper.com12d ago2 min read
Rockstar Games has published the launch trailer for Grand Theft Auto VI about 35 days before its November 19, 2026 release. It is a 90-second spot captured on PlayStation 5, and PC remains unannounced.
80.lv12d ago2 min read
BiteTheBytes has announced World Creator 4, a major update to its GPU-based terrain generator, due in November 2026. It adds planetary-scale terrain, node-based editing, a real-time renderer and a planned macOS and Linux port.
cgchannel.com12d ago3 min read
Godot 4.8 has reached beta 1 and is fully in feature freeze, so work now goes to regression fixes. The snapshot rounds up the whole 4.8 cycle and lists the breaking changes to check before you test.
godotengine.org12d ago3 min read
Valve has updated Steam's achievement system with Achievement Sets, archiving, and a new Steamworks editor with bulk tools. Developers can use them now on new and existing games without updating the game or the Steamworks SDK.
steamcommunity.com12d ago3 min read
A r/gamedev user compared Steam games that passed 200 reviews with games stuck under 10, and found gaps in pre-launch announcements, screenshots, About-page media, languages and tags. It is a self-reported, correlational analysis, but several of the factors cost little to change.
reddit.com12d ago2 min read
Foundry has released Mari 8.0, its 3D texture painting software, adding more than 50 Node Graph nodes, new mask tools and trackball navigation. Team subscription pricing has risen by $60 a year since Mari 7.5.
cgchannel.com13d ago3 min read
Rockstar Games leadership told Bloomberg that the engine, tools and team built for Grand Theft Auto 6 will let it ship future games faster. Headcount has roughly doubled since Red Dead Redemption 2 launched in 2018.
gamesindustry.biz13d ago2 min read
Facepunch Studios plans to make s&box free-to-play toward the end of the year and shift from hosting as many games as possible to promoting the best and most popular. The Play Fund is now an approval system, and the platform is moving toward the Steam Workshop.
gamesindustry.biz13d ago3 min read
Defold 1.14.0 was published on GitHub on 12 October 2026 as a stable release. The release page lists build details but no changelog, so check the official release notes before upgrading.
github.com13d ago2 min read
MonoGame 3.8.6 is out on GitHub with a long list of changes. They include Nintendo Switch 2 support, a native OpenGL backend, and many Vulkan and DX12 fixes. Teams on the 3.8.5.1 line should read the changelog before upgrading.
github.com13d ago2 min read
Defold has published version 1.14.1 on its alpha channel as a GitHub pre-release. The listing carries no changelog, so what changed is not yet known.
github.com13d ago2 min read
Ubisoft plans to shut down Finnish studio RedLynx, maker of the Trials games, and reduce staff at Ubisoft Singapore. Together the moves affect more than 120 jobs and extend the company's ongoing restructuring.
gamedeveloper.com13d ago2 min read
Richard 'Levelord' Gray, the level designer behind Duke Nukem 3D and a co-founder of Ritual Entertainment, has died aged 68. Apogee Entertainment announced his death, and developers across the industry have paid tribute.
gamesindustry.biz13d ago2 min read
Vine FX has released a VFX breakdown for the National Geographic docudrama series Pompeii: Out of Time. It shows how the studio built the Vesuvius eruption and the city of Pompeii in 3D.
cgchannel.com13d ago2 min read
Ludeon Studios announced RimWorld 1.7, which replaces Unity with its own Waylith Engine. The studio reports 2-4x better performance in its tests, and the update is available now on the unstable beta branch.
gamefromscratch.com14d ago2 min read
Bevy 0.20 is out on crates.io, with a faster Solari path tracer that now runs on macOS, a move to the WESL shader language, and breaking BSN syntax changes. Existing projects should read the 0.19 to 0.20 migration guide before upgrading.
bevy.org14d ago3 min read
SideFX's latest major release introduces 3D Gaussian splatting tools alongside major updates to KineFX and Copernicus.
cgchannel.com14d ago3 min read
First games usually stall on scope, not skill. A simple way to cut a game down to something one person can finish and sell.
gdcvault.com18d ago4 min read
Festival players decide fast. A short checklist for the store page and the first minutes of your demo.
partner.steamgames.com19d ago3 min read
You don't need a head-mounted rig to start. Here's what Epic lists for real-time and offline capture, from iPhones to plain webcams.
dev.epicgames.com20d ago4 min read
A practical explainer on composition: how layers let departments work on the same shot, and how variant sets replace a lot of asset-swap tooling.
openusd.org22d ago4 min read
Subscription prices, indie tiers and revenue thresholds change more often than budgets do. Maya 2027's pricing is a good example.
cgchannel.com23d ago3 min read
A plain-language walkthrough of NVIDIA's Real-Time Neural Appearance Models paper: what it replaces, what it claims, and what it needs from hardware.
research.nvidia.com30d ago5 min read
Unity's latest supported update focuses on under-the-hood engine work. Unity 6.3 remains the current LTS release for teams that need long-term stability.
gamedev.net57d ago3 min read
The new long-term support release brings cloth and hair simulation built on an XPBD solver node, online-hosted Essentials assets, and fixes until July 2028.
blender.org106d ago3 min read
The 4.7 release adds HDR display output, a new AreaLight3D node, a rebuilt Asset Store and the ability to build games entirely on Android. The 4.7.2 maintenance release followed in August.
godotengine.org131d ago3 min read
Epic's 5.8 release moves MegaLights, Movie Render Graph and Iris replication to production-ready, adds a cheaper Lumen Lite global illumination mode in beta, and introduces experimental Mesh Terrain.
dev.epicgames.com133d ago5 min read
Autodesk's first update to Maya 2027 brings OTIO support, LookdevX texture projection for objects without UVs, and Bifrost 3.1.
cgchannel.com160d ago3 min read
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