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Photon Engine details how Other Ocean’s 4 Penny Coffins keeps its Ripper secret intact without relying on a dedicated server. The setup leans on Photon’s networking stack to preserve hidden …
XBox Wire says Forest of Deceit has added six new languages, including German, French, Spanish and Simplified Chinese. For a social deduction game built on conversation, the update should reduce …
Photon Engine details how Other Ocean built 4 Penny Coffins on Photon Fusion’s Shared topology, avoiding a dedicated server while keeping hidden-role state secure. The Ripper alone owns Ripper-specific data, …
XBox Wire says Forest of Deceit has added six new languages, including German, French, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, and Italian. For a social deduction game built on conversation, the …
The Cherno shows how AI helped push multiplayer work forward in his Hazel engine, turning a long-running systems task into something more tractable. For engine and gameplay programmers, the practical …
GamesIndustry.biz says Activision's Team Ricochet is treating cheating like a major business, citing estimates that the market reaches $8.5 billion. A survey of 250 multiplayer studios found 69% see cheating …
eieio.games details Solitaire Alone Together, a multiplayer take on Windows 98 solitaire that lets everyone on the internet play the same game. It’s a tiny premise, but it turns a …
Defold Game Jam 2026 starts Sunday, September 20, with prizes, partner challenges, and free gifts for participants. The Defold Foundation is also running a free online conference ahead of the …
Defold Foundation says the Defold Game Jam 2026 begins Sunday, September 20, with prizes, partner challenges, and free gifts on offer. The run-up includes a free online conference on multiplayer, …
Defold Game Jam 2026 starts Sunday, September 20, with prizes, partner challenges and free gifts for participants. Defold Foundation is also running a free online conference ahead of the jam, …
Defold Game Jam 2026 starts Sunday, September 20, with prizes, partner challenges and free gifts for participants. The Defold Foundation is also running a free online conference ahead of the …
XBox Wire says Sea of Thieves is free for all Xbox members to try from September 17-20 on Xbox and PC, while Hell Let Loose: Vietnam is open to Game …
arXiv cs.GR details MoQSplat, a streaming approach for 3D Gaussian Splatting that targets gigabyte-scale scene delivery over QUIC. It splits scenes into spatial Tracks and progressive Subgroups, aiming to cut …
GamesIndustry.biz says Gamescom Asia x Thailand Game Show 2026 is stacking its business floor with Capcom, Bandai Namco, Nintendo and PlayStation partners, plus AMD, Lenovo, Razer and more. The Bangkok …
Season 06 for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 and Warzone is rolling out as The Haunting, bringing a themed content drop across both games. For teams watching live-service cadence, …
Unreal Engine Dev Days are heading to EMEA cities, giving local developers a chance to meet, learn, and swap production ideas in person. For teams building in Unreal, the practical …
Xbox Game Pass is adding a mixed September slate led by RuneScape: Dragonwilds, SpeedRunners 2: King of Speed, and The Royal Writ. The lineup also includes Shelldiver today, plus TCG …
Serious Sam: Shatterverse is taking the franchise into FPS roguelite territory, built in Unreal Engine with peer-to-peer multiplayer and an offline solo mode. Behaviour Interactive says the goal is a …
Dumpster Gang is headed to Xbox PC in December 2026, with day-one Game Pass support. The 1-4 player co-op sandbox casts players as raccoons pulling off house raids, trash runs, …
Weekend two of the Modern Warfare 4 open beta is live, giving players another chance to stress the game’s online stack and content pipeline. For developers, the useful signal is …