Concord: $400M+ budget. Dead in two weeks 💀
Fortnite: same model, still printing money 💸
Eight games passed $1B last year. None of them earned it on release day. Shipping the game is easy. Surviving the decade after launch isn't. We broke it down: tinyurl.com/385387ne
From outsourcing to an original VR game 🎮
Discovery: Rogue Planet Creative Director Roman Yermakov spoke with GameDev DOU about building the game with Meta’s support.
🇺🇦 Original: tinyurl.com/mr37hfna
🌍 English version: tinyurl.com/nat9trce
📅 New date: Discovery: Rogue Planet lands August 6 on Meta Quest & SteamVR
More stories coming before launch — not all from us 👀
🔗 Wishlist on Meta Quest Store: tinyurl.com/yfy7fj4t
👾 Join the journey on Discord: discord.com/invite/btwyXTBFa…
🇦🇺 🇺🇦Great discussion with @IGEAus on serious games! The Q&A covered defence tech, AI, XR, game design, education & why game mechanics outperform traditional training. Thanks to everyone who joined!
📺 Recording: tinyurl.com/msnzxe7d
📖 Article: tinyurl.com/ytacb2vx
🤔 Why does Spider-Man's Spectacular feel like Cyberpunk's Normal?
Difficulty labels are marketing. Difficulty design is math, psychology, and watching playtesters suffer ☠️
✍️ We wrote an entire article on it: tinyurl.com/8c98s2vn
What game made you switch to Easy? No judgment 🌚
🦁 Mane City is live on mobile 🥳
We've been building this tycoon city-builder with @LoadedLions_CDC for a while, and today it's finally in your pocket:
🍎 tinyurl.com/2u98ft49
📷 tinyurl.com/yc33xwvj
🚀 June 2026 in Gamedev:
🎮 Summer Game Fest kicked off showcase season
🕹️ PlayStation, Xbox & Nintendo followed with major reveals
📣 Big IPs and indie titles shared the spotlight
💬 Which June reveal do you think will make the biggest impact?
Proud to be building Mane City Mobile with @LoadedLions_CDC. Bringing a game with years of proven gameplay to mobile 🦁🍾
Pre-registration is live now in 150+ countries:
🍎 tinyurl.com/2u98ft49
🤖 tinyurl.com/yc33xwvj
@ManeCityGame
🌏 Building a planet from scratch starts with one question: what happened here? We worked backwards from that answer — and built Rogax.
🎮 Watch gameplay trailer for Discovery: Rogue Planet, our #VR sci-fi shooter with @immersmind
📅 Launch: July 9, #MetaQuest3
💻 Trailer: tinyurl.com/yudekk77
🌴 #SummerGameFest dropped 60+ announcements last week. Most coverage focused on the titles.
We looked at the patterns underneath and read through the lens of what SGF and #FutureGamesShow actually revealed: tinyurl.com/2sbhz2df
What's your biggest takeaway❓
🎮 #SummerGameFest2026 wrapped. Our wishlists got a lot longer:
🧟♀️ RE: Veronica
🤖 genATLAS
🐢 TMNT: The Last Ronin
⛵ SAND — by Ukrainian studios Hologryph & TowerHaus, already on Steam 🇺🇦
🎙 Burn-9
What's your highlight? For us: Burn-9, SAND, and Code Veronica 👀
🐭 It's barely been a week since Mina the Hollower released on May 29th yet already became MetaCritic’s must-play. Yacht Club Games did it again 💅
Have you tried it yet? Reminds The Legend of Zelda, Oracle of Ages/Seasons, Shovel Knight, or something else entirely? 👇
🚀 May 2026 in Gamedev:
🎮 Forza Horizon 6 and 007 First Light headlined a strong month of releases, while Subnautica 2 entered early access
🕹️ Switch 2 kept gaining publisher support
🎯 Call of Duty returns to Nintendo after 13 years
Thoughts on what's the biggest story of the month? 👇
It’s your Friday choice, Neo.
💊 Red pill: chaos co-op with the squad until 2am
🔵 Blue pill: solo, couch, headphones, no one asking where you're dropping
What’s your move tonight? Drop your friend group go-to below, or admit you're a lone wolf 🐺👇
🎮🌕 Fortnite became a platform. Roblox became an ecosystem. The Metaverse hype faded, but the infrastructure stayed. Our new article explores where Web3 still fits in gaming: tinyurl.com/24pe5ft4
🤖 AI won’t make your next hit game with one prompt. But it is changing how games get prototyped, tested, and iterated on
🎮 We break down what AI can actually do in gamedev in 2026 and where human developers still matter most: tinyurl.com/ydcnpy34
Developers: *spend years building realistic physics, detailed weather systems, advanced lighting*
Players, when #ForzaHorizon6 finally comes out:
drive off cliffs 🚗💨⛰️
hit fences at full speed 🫨🪵💥
test whether the lake has collision 🌊🤨❓
Took it for a spin already?👀
🎮 Games stopped fitting neatly into one genre box a long time ago.
👾 We broke down the most popular game genres and why genre blending matters: stepico.com/blog/most-popula…

















