Donnie Yen's martial arts expertise is helping S-GAME Studio bring authentic kung fu choreography to Phantom Blade Zero's combat system. Phantom Blade Zero, an upcoming samurai soulslike with Chinese cultural elements, described as a "kung-fu-punk" game, reportedly uses revolutionary motion capture…
"The future is not a prophecy. It is a draft." What's to come is not set in stone, at least not in .curator, a freshly announced episodic sci-fi detective thriller written by the Altered Carbon author, Richard K. Morgan. The teaser trailer released by STRTL, whose developers worked on…
Early reviews highlight technical issues, though some players appreciate the game's indie appeal. ▶ YouTube Agefield High: Rock the School, an anticipated sim following the story of a high-school student, developed and published by Refugium Games, was released on August 12, but the reception didn't…
Blender Seeks Feedback From Android 13 Tablet Users The developers are looking at what's needed to support mid-class tablets. Blender support for tablets has been a dream for many users for years, and things finally started moving about a year ago, when the Blender Foundation announced plans to…
There's a theory that it's limited to eight characters, and I love the guess that it will be Skyrim 2. Recently, fans anticipating the follow-up to The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim received new material for their theories about the upcoming game. Xbox head Asha Sharma took to X/Twitter with a short…
Unreal Engine 6 Will Introduce New Lumen Mode "This is an absolute game changer for rendering cinematics in Unreal." ▶ YouTube As usual, Dylan Browne is keeping us updated on the latest additions landing in Unreal Engine's active development trunk on GitHub. He has previously showcased features…
Stop Killing Games Supports Dutch Consumer Group in Lawsuit Against Sony's Digital Shift Stichting Massaschade & Consument launched a collective lawsuit against Sony over alleged high prices on the PlayStation Store. The Stop Killing Games initiative supported the Dutch consumer group Stichting…
The app's signature cursive logo has been refreshed for the first time in 10 years, sparking mixed reactions from users online. Instagram has changed its logo, which hasn't been updated in 10 years. The change is a part of a larger brand identity shift that includes refreshed typography, motion,…
Now the developer studio is planning a movie adaptation with Story Kitchen. ▶ YouTube Planet of Lana is a puzzle-platform game that came out in 2023, and even though it was critically well-received, bringing the game into reality was very hard for the developers. In an interview with…
The bird looks so fluffy! Sherzod Kadirov, 3D VFX Artist, created a free Blender tool that procedurally turns hair groom curves into feathers using Geometry Nodes. It supports custom feather shapes, random or painted variation, grooming controls, and flexible procedural shading. It's designed to…
Discover how indie developers are using Character Creator 5 and iClone 8 to build AAA-quality indie game characters faster. From solo creators to small studios, these real-world case studies showcase streamlined character pipelines for Unreal Engine and Unity. The gap between indie ambition and…
Looks like the company decided to get out of the MMO field. Amazon has canceled its publishing deals with Lost Ark and Throne and Liberty, returning the RPGs to their South Korean roots. The company published the games in the West but has seemingly decided to wash its hands of the MMO scene,…
Spline Architect's New Version Adds GPU Instancing For 1,000,000 Objects Along Splines Create everything from roads, intersections, and pipes to camera paths and character movement. ▶ YouTube Spline Architect by Mike Danielsson is a powerful Unity spline tool for deforming meshes, building roads,…
This Pixel-Art Sci-Fi JRPG Has Absolutely Phenomenal Art Style Stillsun Ark looks very promising. Shinra Software has shared the first look at Stillsun Ark, a JRPG where a shipwrecked crew must survive on a planet as wondrous as it is deadly. The color palette looks gorgeous, and the character…
Gel & Sand Sim Running In Browser On Apple Vision Pro "Care for a slice of hand-chopped physics jelly?" James C. Kane unveiled a new immersive demo featuring gel, sand, and water simulations on Apple Vision Pro, powered by WebXR and WebGPU via Three.js. He says it's the first implementation he's…
Check Out CG Short Film Made with Blender Inspired by Tabletop Game The artist also shared a breakdown. Have a look at this CG short film created in Blender by 3D Artist Vladislav Shablovsky, known on Reddit as GreenGuru. Titled BRONEPEHOTA: Past Echoes, the film draws inspiration from Technolog's…
Procedural Stone Passage Built with a Custom Houdini HDA in Unreal Engine 5 Take a behind-the-scenes look at this photorealistic 3D scene. Take a walk in this picturesque natural environment, which appears impressively realistic, crafted in 3D by Environment Artist Ahmed Damarany using Houdini and…
Mesmerizing Jaw Within Jaw System For Fish Creature See the final animation. It's a great day to learn about pharyngeal jaws, thanks to 3D Artist known online as Evoincarnate, who made this cool prototype. Pharyngeal jaws are basically a second set of jaws inside the throat, found in many species,…
Machine Party Adds Couch Co-Op with Its 2.0 Update GDeavid and Mike Klubnika explained how to set it up. Machine Party, a recently released collection of brutal party games from developers GDeavid and Mike Klubnika, the creator of Buckshot Roulette and s.p.l.i.t., received an update, with version…
The developer explained how Godot shaders are used in the game's creation. Check out Ringworld Architect, an upcoming domino-based sci-fi puzzle game from Victor Hayé, where you build unusual circular worlds in outer space. The single-player game is powered by Godot. These megastructures are…
HavokNation did an amazing job. Take a look at HavokNation's mind-blowing tribute to Akira, a 1988 Japanese animated film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, made in Blender, with rendering completed in Cycles. The artist brought the futuristic world of post-apocalyptic Neo-Tokyo to 3D, carefully modeling…
Mari "MadMaraca" is back with an incredible project. Mari "MadMaraca" is a very talented Voxel Artist who creates scenes that, at first glance, you'd never guess they are made out of cubes. She shared a video on Twitter/X featuring screenshots showing the progress of a project, and the final result…
You can get it for $39.99. ▶ YouTube With this bundle, you'll be able to create sci-fi scenes with cyberpunk interiors and/or medieval towns with fantasy dungeons, using realistic and stylized environments, customizable NPCs for different settings, drivable cars, and various SFX and VFX. Some of…
Building Procedural 2D Grass With GPU Compute ▶ YouTube Jarl Frode recently shared a great write-up explaining how 2D grass rendering with compute shaders works in Jarl, a Viking colony simulator inspired by Valheim, RimWorld, Terraria, The Majesty, and The Kingdom. The game uses pixel art, a 2D…