How Bandcamp became the "headquarters" for video game soundtracks

Long crucial to independent music, Bandcamp is also an important outlet for video game composers to make money off their work ...

Assassin's Creed Hexe, the next mainline game in the series and reportedly a witchy RPG, adds Mirage and Valhalla writer as lead scriptwriter

Christopher Grilli, a longtime Ubisoft writer with credits on Assassin's Creed Origins, Valhalla, and Mirage, has signed on ...
Tech Xplore

I was a designer for RuneScape—its comeback reveals how old games can be rejuvenated

RuneScape experienced a surge of popularity over the 2025 holiday season. While fan nostalgia for a game that is now 25 years ...

New Game+ Showcase Creators on Building a No-Pay, Creator-Led Alternative to Ad-Heavy Game Events

New Game+ Showcase launched as a creator-led alternative to the increasingly ad-saturated circuit of game events—an attempt to put taste-making and developer stories back at the center of reveal ...

Principled Technologies and the BenchmarkXPRT Development Community release a preview of WebXPRT 5

WebXPRT 5, a free online performance evaluation tool, provides objective information about how well web-connected ...
AARP

More Americans Are Surviving Cancer — What It Means for Older Adults

Seven in 10 people now survive their cancer five years or more, up from only half in the mid-70s,” said Rebecca Siegel, ...
Arabian Post on MSN

Cocos game engine opens its full codebase

Cocos, the long-running developer of cross-platform game technology, has moved its Cocos 4 game engine from a proprietary model to full open source, a step that reshapes its relationship with ...
AARP

He Designs Robots to Fight Fires and Deliver Food

Roboticist Dennis Hong, 54, is a professor at the UCLA School of Engineering and director of RoMeLa (Robotics & Mechanisms ...
TweakTown

Game development is now affected by the RAM crisis

TL;DR: Rising DDR5 memory and storage costs, driven by the ongoing DRAM crisis and AI demand, are causing supply shortages and higher prices through 2026. This forces game developers like Larian ...
Game Rant

The Last of Us Director Criticizes Use of AI in Game Development

Sarah has been an editor and contributor for Game Rant since 2015. After meeting her first Chocobo, she never looked back. Sarah majored in game design in college and utilizes that knowledge to ...
GamesRadar+

Peak devs admit to committing a "cardinal sin of game development," but their excuse is the viral co-op climbing game was just supposed to be a game jam project

Co-op comedy smash hit Peak just dropped a new update, and while fixing a bug that's persisted since this summer's launch, the devs admitted to a "cardinal sin." What did developers Aggro Crab (of ...
Engadget

Mewgenics, the next game from The Binding of Isaac's developer, will arrive next February on PC

Indie game developer Edmund McMillen hosted a Reddit AMA today offering some more details about his upcoming game Mewgenics. For starters, the Steam release date for this turn-based cat-breeding RPG ...