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Jun 25, 2025

6 Min Read

Discord's 'social infrastructure' SDK helps devs capitalize on 'social play' trend Discord's 'social infrastructure' SDK helps devs capitalize on 'social play' trend

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Jun 24, 2025

4 Min Read

Is generative AI really 'just a tool'?Is generative AI really 'just a tool'?

A faceless avatar looks upon hundreds of balloons, some in the shape of the Havok logo.

May 30, 2025

8 Min Read

25 years in, Havok unveils royalty-free pricing for budgets up to $20 million 25 years in, Havok unveils royalty-free pricing for budgets up to $20 million

A Japanese temple in Lushfoil.

May 13, 2025

5 Min Read

Deep Dive: Lushful Photography Sim's emotive, mathematical long-exposure photography system Deep Dive: Lushful Photography Sim's emotive, mathematical long-exposure photography system

byMatt Newell

May 7, 2025

5 Min Read

A cat in a top hat leaps toward the camera with the giant word "meow" behind them.

In Skin Deep, 'cartoon logic' helps players understand complicated gameplay

Apr 30, 2025

7 Min Read

byBryant Francis, Senior Editor

A player character in Avowed duel-wields pistols.

How Avowed's QA team stomped out bugs by working inside the design tools

Apr 22, 2025

9 Min Read

byBryant Francis, Senior Editor

A monster from Palworld and a giant robot from Titanfall 2 stand next to each other.

Palworld dev says Ark: Survival Evolved, Titanfall 2, and other games invalidate patent lawsuit

Apr 21, 2025

3 Min Read

byBryant Francis, Senior Editor

Console

Nintendo Switch 2's DLSS support may be a big part of future Nintendo games

Apr 8, 2025

7 Min Read

byBryant Francis, Senior Editor

A fishing boat at sunset in the creepy world of Dredge

Dredge wasn't originally going to be a narrative game, but then it became one of 2023's best

Apr 1, 2025

4 Min Read

byAron Garst, Contributor

The key to Eggy Party's UGC success lies in recommendation system iteration

Mar 31, 2025

4 Min Read

byAron Garst, Contributor

'Consume Me' Wins Grand Prize, Nuovo Award at the 2025 IGF Awards

Mar 20, 2025

2 Min View

byBeth Elderkin, Content Marketing Manager (GDC)

Unity CEO Mathew Bromberg and CTO Steve Collins.

Unity's CEO, CTO promise 'stability' after runtime fee debacle

Mar 19, 2025

6 Min Read

byBryant Francis, Senior Editor

Assassin's Creed Shadows co-protagonist Naoe.

How Assassin's Creed Shadows makes environments look great up close and at a distance

Mar 19, 2025

6 Min Read

byBryant Francis, Senior Editor

The scratch coding and sharp constraints at the heart of Animal Well

Mar 19, 2025

3 Min Read

byCharlie Wacholz, Contributor

The technical magic behind Doctor Strange's portals in Marvel Rivals

Mar 18, 2025

3 Min Read

byCharlie Wacholz, Contributor

A dark graveyard setting with 8 bit characters

Encouraging player creativity in Caves of Qud

Mar 13, 2025

9 Min Read

byJoel Couture, Contributor

Four players gather in VR in front of a diner in Dimensional Double Shift.

Extended Reality

Owlchemy Labs' Dimensional Double Shift shows what's next for VR development

Feb 27, 2025

8 Min Read

byBryant Francis, Senior Editor

Creating seamless multiplayer experiences for games like Space Marine 2

Feb 5, 2025

4 Min Read

byDmitri Brevdo

Brynn stares down a giant magical automaton with a crown of fire.

How Eternal Strands' creators cooked up an ambitious physics system with a small team

Jan 27, 2025

9 Min Read

byBryant Francis, Senior Editor

A robotic middle finger emerges from a laptop screen.

Developers still aren't warming up to generative AI

Jan 22, 2025

4 Min Read

byBryant Francis, Senior Editor

Console

Nintendo finally unveils the Switch 2, its successor to the Nintendo Switch

Jan 16, 2025

3 Min Read

byBryant Francis,Chris Kerr

Converting saves, a cross platform journey

Save the saves

Jan 15, 2025

5 Min Read

byOleksii Honcharov

A promo image for Bryant's top 10 game of the year list featuring four games.

Game Developer 2024 Wrap-Up: Bryant Francis' top 10 games of the year

Dec 23, 2024

14 Min Read

byBryant Francis, Senior Editor

Four images from the best games of 2024.

Game Platforms

Game Developer's 2024 Wrap-Up: The top 10 must-play Games of the Year

Dec 19, 2024

15 Min Read

byChris Kerr,Bryant Francisand 3 more

Deep Dive: Crafting detailed and dynamic water in Planet Coaster 2

Dec 12, 2024

11 Min Read

byJohn Wigg

6 steps to a successful playtesting process for an indie developer

Dec 9, 2024

10 Min Read

byMaxim Kiselev

Ichiban and Kazuma in LIke a Dragon: Infinite Wealth.

Like a Dragon devs open up on sharing source code, inspiring future programmers

Dec 6, 2024

3 Min Read

byJustin Carter, Contributing Editor

A Unity project for all platforms: Part 1

Nov 26, 2024

10 Min Read

byBulat Gaineev, Blogger

How wall running and high-speed movement works in Project: Haste

Nov 22, 2024

7 Min Read

Classic Postmortem: Harmonix's Dance Central (2010)

Nov 21, 2024

24 Min Read

byMarc Flury,Kasson Crookerand 3 more

YoYo Games CEO Russell Kay holds a microphone against Game Developer's red background.

What GameMaker's 25-year run tells us about the game engine market

Nov 20, 2024

9 Min Read

byBryant Francis, Senior Editor

Davrin, a Black elf from Dragon Age: The Veilguard.

Art

BioWare pulls back the veil on Dragon Age: The Veilguard's magical hair tech

Nov 12, 2024

5 Min Read

byBryant Francis, Senior Editor

Steam's new API lets devs grant easier build access to players

Nov 12, 2024

2 Min Read

byJustin Carter, Contributing Editor

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Ubisoft and Netflix greenlight Assassin's Creed live-action series Ubisoft and Netflix greenlight Assassin's Creed live-action series

byDiego Argüello

Jul 17, 2025

2 Min Read

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