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A faceless avatar looks upon hundreds of balloons, some in the shape of the Havok logo.
Programming
25 years in, Havok unveils royalty-free pricing for budgets up to $20 million25 years in, Havok unveils royalty-free pricing for budgets up to $20 million

After 25 years of breaking boundaries in in-game physics on big-budget projects, Havok now has pricing for mid-sized studios.

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A Japanese temple in Lushfoil.
Programming
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A cat in a top hat leaps toward the camera with the giant word "meow" behind them.
Design
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A player character in Avowed duel-wields pistols.
Programming
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A monster from Palworld and a giant robot from Titanfall 2 stand next to each other.
Business
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Toad jumps for joy in Mario Kart World.
Console
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Production
The key to Eggy Party's UGC success lies in recommendation system iteration
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byAron Garst, Contributor
Design
'Consume Me' Wins Grand Prize, Nuovo Award at the 2025 IGF Awards
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Unity CEO Mathew Bromberg and CTO Steve Collins.
Programming
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byBryant Francis, Senior Editor
Assassin's Creed Shadows co-protagonist Naoe.
Programming
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byBryant Francis, Senior Editor
Cat creatures in Animal Well
Programming
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byCharlie Wacholz, Contributor
Colorful Marvel characters do battle
Programming
The technical magic behind Doctor Strange's portals in Marvel Rivals
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A dark graveyard setting with 8 bit characters
Design
Encouraging player creativity in Caves of Qud
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byJoel Couture, Contributor
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Extended Reality
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Feb 27, 2025
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8 Min Read
byBryant Francis, Senior Editor
Characters from Space Marine 2
Production
Creating seamless multiplayer experiences for games like Space Marine 2
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Feb 5, 2025
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byDmitri Brevdo
Brynn stares down a giant magical automaton with a crown of fire.
Design
How Eternal Strands' creators cooked up an ambitious physics system with a small team
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Jan 27, 2025
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9 Min Read
byBryant Francis, Senior Editor
A robotic middle finger emerges from a laptop screen.
Business
Developers still aren't warming up to generative AI
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Jan 22, 2025
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byBryant Francis, Senior Editor
The Switch 2
Console
Nintendo finally unveils the Switch 2, its successor to the Nintendo Switch
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Jan 16, 2025
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byBryant Francis, Chris Kerr
underwater adventure images
Programming
Converting saves, a cross platform journey
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byOleksii Honcharov
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Design
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Dec 23, 2024
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byBryant Francis, Senior Editor
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Game Platforms
Game Developer's 2024 Wrap-Up: The top 10 must-play Games of the Year
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Dec 19, 2024
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Programming
Deep Dive: Crafting detailed and dynamic water in Planet Coaster 2
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Dec 12, 2024
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byJohn Wigg
Programming
6 steps to a successful playtesting process for an indie developer
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Dec 9, 2024
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byMaxim Kiselev
Ichiban and Kazuma in LIke a Dragon: Infinite Wealth.
Production
Like a Dragon devs open up on sharing source code, inspiring future programmers
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Dec 6, 2024
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byJustin Carter, Contributing Editor
Programming
A Unity project for all platforms: Part 1
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Nov 26, 2024
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byBulat Gaineev, Blogger
Programming
How wall running and high-speed movement works in Project: Haste
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Nov 22, 2024
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Production
Classic Postmortem: Harmonix's Dance Central (2010)
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Programming
What GameMaker's 25-year run tells us about the game engine market
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Nov 20, 2024
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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
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Nov 12, 2024
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5 Min Read
byBryant Francis, Senior Editor
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Production
Steam's new API lets devs grant easier build access to players
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Nov 12, 2024
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byJustin Carter, Contributing Editor
Art
Deep Dive: Developing a clear and consistent visual language in the UI of Beastieball
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Nov 12, 2024
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byGregory Lobanov, Blogger
Design
Must-have tools and libraries for indie game developers in 2024
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Nov 11, 2024
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byMaxim Kiselev
A woman looks at a computer through a magnifying glass.
Art
How devs can spot AI-generated 3D models
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Nov 5, 2024
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byBryant Francis, Senior Editor
A man with his face obscured by a hoodie at a laptop.
PC
Heads up: devs on Steam now need to disclose kernel mode anti-cheat software
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Oct 31, 2024
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byBryant Francis, Senior Editor

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