The Escapist

How to watch the Xbox Developer Direct: Start times, games, and more

2026 has begun, and it’s time for developers and publishers to reveal their crop of titles for the upcoming year. Things should be a lot smoother than 2025, considering the threat of Grand Theft Auto ...
TechSpot

"Games should never die": Rust dev offers $25M to save Amazon's MMO New World

Winners & losers: Once a high-profile experiment in large-scale, cloud-backed gaming, Amazon's New World has now become a cautionary tale of how quickly technical ambition and early adoption can ...
Game Rant

ARC Raiders Dev Discusses Challenges of 'Escalating' the Game's PvE in the Future

Michael Ingram is a Senior Contributor from the United States of America. Michael has been writing for GameRant since 2021, writing both analytically and fiction for years beforehand. Michael is a ...
PC Gamer

Schedule 1 developer TVGS is 'an actual game studio' now, with an office, desks, and a new guy named Rob: 'By the end of the year, there will likely be 4 people working on ...

RPG 'We lost things such as physics in games:' The dev behind my most anticipated RPG thinks players are craving more interactive games, not just 'moving around in a static 3D environment' RPG The dev ...
Hosted on MSN

How to build battle-shots - the best DIY party game ever

In this video, I’m building BattleSHOTS, a giant, portable version of Battleship turned into an awesome party or family game! Everything stores neatly inside the boards, and I’ve included a 3D model, ...
Variety

Xbox Game Studios Boss on Taylor Sheridan’s ‘Call of Duty’ Movie, Launching ‘South of Midnight’ for PS5 and Switch 2, and Big Plans for Dev Direct in January (EXCLUSIVE)

Microsoft’s Xbox is heading into The Game Awards Thursday with 10 nominations and major promotional plans for the second season of its “Fallout” TV series on Amazon. The company also had some big news ...
GameInformer

Yuji Horii On Early Days In Game Dev: 'I Would Just Do Everything Myself'

Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii has been designing games for upwards of 40 years, and though he's 71 today, he still remains heavily involved in the development of the long-running RPG franchise that ...
Ars Technica

Celebrated game developer Rebecca Heineman dies at age 62

On Monday, veteran game developer Rebecca Ann Heineman died in Rockwall, Texas, at age 62 after a battle with adenocarcinoma. Apogee founder Scott Miller first shared the news publicly on social media ...
IGN

Megabonk Developer Withdraws Game From The Game Awards, Saying It Doesn't Qualify for Debut Indie

"i really appreciate the nomination, support and votes, but it doesn't feel right in this category. you should vote for another one of the amazing debut titles, they are all amazing games! "thanks ...
Polygon

Megabonk dev withdraws from The Game Awards after 'Best Debut Indie' nomination

The developer behind Steam hit roguelike survival game Megabonk was nominated Monday for Best Debut Indie Game at The Game Awards. On Tuesday, the developer known only as vedinad said that he was ...
GamesRadar+

Solo dev behind one of Steam's biggest viral hits, Lethal Company, gives his new game away for free after 10 years of work: "I only want to sell a game if I'm very certain that ...

Roguelike Games "We could have just made The Binding of Isaac 2," say Mewgenics creators, and "gotten 20 million wishlists" Horror Games Steam might stop dev from releasing viral horror game just by ...