Game Developer reports that Control Resonant director Kyle Rowley is pushing back on excessive “yellow paint” in level design. His argument is that players should feel ownership over what to …
XBox Wire details Minecraft Dungeons II, out September 29 on Xbox Series X|S, PC, cloud, and other platforms. Mojang says the sequel adds jumping, a fully connected world, fast travel, …
GamesIndustry.biz reports that Control Resonant is landing well critically despite Remedy’s biggest swing yet: a melee-first, open-ended take on Control set in a paranatural Manhattan. Early reviews point to an …
GamesIndustry.biz details how Remedy is rethinking Control Resonant around Manhattan’s open streets, with senior level designer Arhi Makkonen calling it the studio’s biggest world yet. The sequel also shifts to …
GDC Festival of Gaming highlights how The Outer Worlds 2 opens with a tightly scripted level instead of dropping players into a broad sandbox. The goal is to establish stakes, …
GDC Festival of Gaming·
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The Coalition is framing Gears of War: E-Day as a city-scale invasion story set in Kalona, where Marcus and Dom witness the Locust attack for the first time. The team …
Aaryn·
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Unreal Engine 5.8 brings a major refresh to City Sample, adding entirely new levels built around recent engine features. The update also folds in PCG and Unreal MCP workflows, giving …
GDC Festival of Gaming spotlights how Obsidian Entertainment is building points of interest for The Outer Worlds 2. Staff area designer Dan Qiao breaks down the process behind POI design, …
Modern Warfare 4 is pushing Multiplayer toward faster, more readable combat by trimming cover, adding new traversal, and building maps around South Korea. Infinity Ward is pairing photogrammetry-driven art with …
Mike Nelson, XBOX Wire Editor·
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is leaning hard into multiplayer feel, with a focus on movement, gunplay, modes, and map design. For developers, the interesting part is how the …
Mike Nelson, XBOX Wire Editor·
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Asobo is taking A Plague Tale in a new direction with Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy, shifting from stealth to combat-heavy action-adventure. The game stars Sophia, is set 15 years …
Frogwares has launched The Sinking City 2 on Xbox Series X|S, pivoting the sequel from open-world detective work toward tighter survival horror. The game keeps investigation as an optional reward …
Will Fulton, XBOX Wire Editor·
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Kenney.nl has expanded its free CC0 City Kit with a Roads pack aimed at quickly building believable urban layouts. The bundle includes 90 files and has already seen updates for …
Ars Technica reports that Bethesda has marked Quake’s 30th anniversary with Dawn of the Machine, a new official campaign chapter for the original shooter. Built by MachineGames with id Software, …
Unity details how Mega Cat Studios is rebuilding Backyard Baseball in 3D with readability, worldbuilding, and reactive VFX front and center. The team kept the classic field layouts intact, then …
Learn how real-life experiences can inspire more authentic horror stories, stronger emotional connections, and memorable gameplay. This article explores practical techniques for transforming everyday events into immersive horror game experiences …
Text2Villa tackles a hard problem for 3D content pipelines: turning text into multi-room indoor spaces that stay physically plausible. The system combines a hierarchical layout generator with physics-aware scene assembly …
Sucker Punch is highlighting three early-game lessons in Ghost of Yotei: give players a reason to wander, teach the world through play, and front-load the experience with intent. Adriana Martinez’s …
GDC Festival of Gaming·
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A new LLM pipeline called MAGIC can generate runnable multi-scene game worlds from a single prompt, including portals, transition scripts, and navigable interiors. It targets a pain point familiar to …
Tsz Hei Fan, Choi Wing Fung, Yuxuan Wan, Shuqing Li, Michael R. Lyu·
Kenney.nl has added a Modular Cave Kit to its 3D asset lineup, giving developers a ready-made set of cave pieces for building underground spaces faster. The pack includes 40 files …
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