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Box2D details a new inscribed-sphere culling scheme for SAT that can cut expensive convex-hull contact work before edge-pair tests even run. The approach uses cheap dot products and Gauss-map arcs …
arXiv cs.GR details an adjoint-based workflow for automating profile extrusion die design, replacing manual trial-and-error with deterministic shape optimization. The method uses non-boundary-conforming geometry representations and a reconstruction step to …
GamesIndustry.biz reports that IO Interactive has pushed 007 First Light on Switch 2 to March 2027, marking a third delay for the port. Technical producer Cristina Vega said the team …
Game Developer details how ARM’s Peter Hodges thinks about game development tools, with a side trip into the 1969 short Lemon. The conversation is most relevant to teams building or …
Unity details how Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor was reworked for mobile, where thousands of enemies, projectiles, and UI events had to fit inside a 3 GB iPad and a wildly …
AMD GPUOpen says ADLX 2.0 adds AI extensions and MCP servers so apps can monitor, manage, and optimize AMD graphics hardware. For game teams, that opens the door to agent-driven …
Godot has been tightening CPU-side renderer code, and one Polygon2D case showed why that matters: a scene with only about 20 animated characters was spending 15.7 ms in Polygon2D::_notification() and …
A new HKTex acceleration method drops the mesh eigensystem bottleneck that has made heat-kernel texture workflows expensive to initialize. Two variants, LocalHK and ThermalRF, keep the trainer and compositing pipeline …
A new reconfigurable rover uses a variable-geometry truss to change its contact shape on the fly, cutting the coordination burden of traversal planning. The system reuses low-dimensional contact primitives instead …
Researchers have introduced TBR, a transport-based rendering method that turns inverse graphics into an ordered stroke program. The approach targets marbling-style deposition strokes, preserving area while deforming earlier marks. It …
Unity details how Garage Collective is using ECS to render DrakkenRidge’s huge mobile VR world with far less overhead. The two-person team says the game can show thousands of objects …
A new layout-generation framework, LayoutShop, uses content constraints and optimization to build creative article compositions from templates. It extracts eligible structures, solves their geometry, then ranks results with neural assessment …
A new 3D Gaussian Splatting method tackles gradient vanishing with truncated updates, aiming to make scene reconstruction more stable and less sensitive to initialization. The approach improves both static and …
Catlike Coding Unity details the first Burst conversion in its Hex Map 5.5.0 generator: InitializeMapJob now runs as an IJobFor over a NativeArray of HexCellData. For Unity 6000.3.23f1 users, it’s …
CD Projekt Red says The Witcher 4 is already running on every target platform, a notable shift after Cyberpunk 2077’s troubled launch. The studio is treating platform readiness as a …
Preorders are now open for the ROG Xbox Ally X20, a new handheld PC aimed at running modern games in a portable form factor. For developers, it adds another Windows-based …
BrainLinear is a lightweight connectome classifier that trades heavy GNN and Transformer stacks for a sparse, geometry-aware linear pipeline. It maps functional connectivity into a tangent space, ranks ROI-pair directions …
Unity details how Mega Cat Studios kept Backyard Baseball’s dense scenes running smoothly by leaning on batching, instancing, culling, and profiling. The team says the biggest wins came from reducing …
A new motion-editing method uses Laplacian optimization in Rodrigues vector space to stitch animation clips with smoother transitions. By keeping joint rotations continuous, it avoids the brittle hand-tuning and learning-based …
A long-running A* pathfinding deep dive now has a fresh release centered on differential heuristics, the same family of tricks that helps large route planners stay responsive. The update replaces …