4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1793+ words) GSC Game World has had a grueling time, developing and shipping S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: The Heart of Chornobyl (Stalker 2) while dealing with the war against Russia in its homeland of Ukraine. Stalker 2 debuted in November 2024, with sales above a million in the first…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1084+ words) Studio Atelico, the game studio building AI-first games, has launched a closed beta for its debut creature-battler, Bobium Brawlers. Built on Studio Atelico’s proprietary AI engine and powered by models trained on artwork from its in-house art team, Bobium Brawlers…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (276+ words) Epic Games doesn’t want creators on its platform to use trademarks to assert control over popular game genres — and the company is taking legal action to mark this boundary. “Because the terminology ‘edit pump wars’ is used as or in…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (746+ words) FreeAnimal officially launches today as the first global creative agency built for the entire games ecosystem. It’s a combination of seven award-winning game-native agencies owned by external development conglomerate Keywords Studios. FreeAnimal united the expertise of Keywords Studios’ agencies Gnet…...

5+ day, 8+ hour ago   (237+ words) Twitch is sharing some of the numbers behind gamers’ evolving preferences and behaviors over the past year. Today, Sept. 9, Twitch released its first-ever State of Gaming report, combining metrics and viewership data from the over 8.6 billion hours of gaming content…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago   (1694+ words) Bonfire Studios, the game developer founded by Blizzard veteran Rob Pardo, started 10 years ago. After a couple of years of hiring and prototyping, the company started making Arkheron, a multiplayer fantasy action game that is nearing early access. It’s been…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1907+ words) Tim Schafer, CEO of Double Fine Productions, has been busy dealing with a lot of change in the past couple of months, but he has successfully extracted his studio from Microsoft and he is once again running it as an…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (364+ words) Dragon Snacks Games, an independent studio founded by gaming veterans, announced Farhaven, a cooperative sandbox RPG built from the ground up to be shared with friends. Coming to PC in Q2 2027, Farhaven gives groups of up to 16 players their own private,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (186+ words) Roblox is moving to integrate generative AI features directly into the core gameplay loops of experiences on the platform. “We didn’t actually use the Cube AI to develop it; the whole approach to this was figuring out how we could…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (383+ words) A Helsinki-based startup just built an AI copilot that lets Unity developers build games by simply describing what they want. Nimble Fox is releasing its AI-powered Unity development tool to the public on Sept. 7, letting developers build and modify games…...