Musslop is a tool that analyzes MP3 tracks to identify musical structure and creates seamless adaptive loops, allowing users to switch between sections in real-time like game audio engines. Designed for tabletop RPG ambience, it also supports game dev prototyping, streaming, and focus music, with offline AI analysis and export capabilities.
Bulkhead CEO Joe Brammer stated the studio deliberately avoids hiring people who publicly criticize crunch, screening social media during recruitment. While acknowledging crunch is inevitable in game development, Brammer emphasized Bulkhead expects hard work and offers share bonuses to compensate, though not all employees receive these benefits.
URIDIUM/FRAKTION is a free book-length analysis of Andrew Braybrook's 1986 Commodore 64 game Uridium, exploring its code, mechanics, and graphics through detailed chapters covering 6502 assembler implementation. The work breaks down how various game systems function at the source code level and is available as a downloadable PDF.
Jujutsu Kaisen Rumble: Survivaton, a multiplayer survival game from Shueisha Games and poncle, has been delayed from 2026 to 2027. The game will launch on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, and PC via Steam, featuring up to eight players competing as characters from Jujutsu Kaisen against cursed spirits in a survivors royale format.
Ikumi Nakamura, studio lead at Unseen, publicly invited Elon Musk to try her demon-hunting action game Kemuri at Tokyo Game Show, citing a shared interest in gaming culture. The invitation drew criticism from commenters concerned about Musk's public reputation and potential impact on the game's reception.
SpaceTimeDB is a reactive backend platform that combines database, server logic, authentication, and real-time sync in one unified system, eliminating the need for separate web servers, ORMs, or microservices. Designed for AI agents and game developers, it allows code to run directly inside the database in Rust, C#, or TypeScript, providing automatic client synchronization and simplified deployment.
Nintendo art director Takaya Imamura faced online backlash, primarily from Japanese users, after posting about experimenting with generative AI for prototyping a 3D shooter game. Imamura defended the work as testing and clarified he never intended to release the prototype, noting AI helps him bridge the gap between his ideas and technical implementation.
Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino apologized after fans discovered undisclosed AI use in the studio's digital showcase, confirming generative AI was used to make presentation footage "more spectacular." Hino stated that core creative elements like scenarios and character designs remain human-made, with AI primarily used for efficiency in converting artwork to polygons and digitizing creative work.
Level-5's CEO Akihiro Hino admitted the studio used generative AI in recent game reveals for Professor Layton and Yo-Kai Watch to make presentations more spectacular, after fans criticized the heavy use of AI-generated content. Hino apologized for going too far but claimed core creative elements like scenarios and character designs are human-made, and that AI is used only to enhance efficiency in production.
Level-5 apologized for using generative AI in upcoming games like Professor Layton and Yo-Kai Watch after fans spotted AI artifacts in presentation footage. CEO Akihiro Hino defended the practice as experimentation to streamline development, claiming core creative elements remain human-made, but fans remain skeptical and disappointed.
Polyarc, the Seattle studio behind the acclaimed VR series Moss, has closed after nearly 12 years of development. The closure follows a failed funding round in March and represents the latest in a series of VR studio shutdowns, including major cuts by Meta across its Reality Labs division.
CD Projekt Red is adding a chain weapon to The Witcher 3 in the upcoming Songs of the Past DLC, a feature that was technologically impossible during the game's 2015 release but can now be implemented with modern technology. The weapon will offer crowd control and pulling mechanics against new enemy types like Swarmions.
Level-5 fans are concerned the studio is using AI in its games following a September 2026 presentation showcasing Professor Layton remakes and new titles. Multiple games including Yo-kai Watch 2, Inazuma Eleven: Bold Revolution, and DecaPolice face accusations of featuring AI-generated art and animations, with CEO Akihiro Hino having previously stated that 80-90% of game code is now AI-written and the studio admitted to using ChatGPT for character designs in past projects.
Ben and Matt are software engineers who transitioned from game development to finance careers. Both are advocates of rigorous engineering practices—Ben mentors in Extreme Programming and Agile methodologies, while Matt applies low-level optimization techniques from his console game engine work to financial software systems.
A developer describes using transcompilation to run games on retro hardware: first transpiling Lua to C for an SNES game that achieved 60fps, then transpiling Swift through WASM to C for Dreamcast and Wii versions of their Jinks game engine. Transcompilation proved valuable for prototyping across platforms despite unconventional compilation chains.
A developer describes a pipeline for creating low-poly game-ready 3D assets using AI models, combining image generation, silhouette refinement, and mesh optimization with Hunyuan 3D and agent-assisted cleanup in Blender to achieve performance targets for cross-platform RTS games.
Geoff Keighley and Mark Cerny have launched Nova Games Foundation, a philanthropic initiative providing grants up to $500,000 annually to 20 university graduates to develop games. The foundation partners with 13 universities worldwide and aims to support new voices in game development without taking equity stakes.
FuturLab, developer of PowerWash Simulator, laid off seven employees after cancelling a new project deemed too expensive. Company management allegedly instructed remaining staff to avoid the word 'redundancy' and refer to laid-off workers as 'the leavers' in an apparent attempt to minimize the negative impact of the layoffs.