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Realistic Water In Godot For Sid Meier's Pirates-Inspired Game

Made from scratch and powered by Forward+. It's starting to feel like we're developing a tradition of posting about beautiful Godot water once a week. This showcase comes from developer stankuslee, who's making a game inspired by Sid Meier's Pirates! and Sea of Thieves, but with a more "serious"…

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3D Animation of Stylized Vampire Inspired by Marvel Rivals & Arcane

Mehdi Bounedjar recreated the character from Edwin Vorng's Stone Decay project. 3D Character Artist Mehdi Bounedjar unveiled a 3D model of a stylized vampire chatacter based on a concept by Artist Edwin Vorng. The character is from Vorng's personal project called Stone Decay, which features a cast…

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VIEW Conference 2026 Drops Its Full Program, and It's Packed

From Roger Deakins to an NVIDIA x Runway keynote on AI, here's what's happening in Turin this October. VIEW Conference has published the full program for its 2026 edition, running October 12-16 in Turin, Italy. The event brings together directors, VFX supervisors, game developers, and AI…

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Fable Devs Hand-Crafted 1,000 NPCs Instead of Using a Randomizer Tool

Game director Ralph Fulton said that it would save a lot of time, but randomly created NPCs "just didn't make as much sense." ▶ YouTube The upcoming reboot of the fantasy franchise Fable has about 1,000 NPCs in the Living Population, and it's remarkable that the studio opted for hand-crafting them…

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Breaking Benjamin Frontman Pauses Concert To Promote His Fallout 4 Mod

"Tomorrow I better see all my motherf***in' downloads going up." Here's something pretty random and hilarious: not only does Breaking Benjamin frontman Benjamin Burnley make mods for Fallout 4, but he also took some time during the band's concert in Holmdel, NJ, last Sunday to talk about one of…

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Emmanuel Macron Announced New Video Game Festival in France

France's President Announces New Video Game Festival Probably inspired by the success of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Emmanuel Macron announced the news at the Lumière Summit. France's President Emmanuel Macron has announced a new international video game festival taking place in France. The…

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The Game Awards Host & PS5 Architect Launch Nova Games Foundation

The Game Awards' Host & PS5 Architect Set Program to Help Aspiring Game Designers Geoff Keighley and Mark Cerny are launching a philanthropic project titled Nova Games Foundation. Geoff Keighley, executive producer and host of The Game Awards, and Mark Cerny, game designer and lead system architect…

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Riot Co-Founder Says 2XKO Wasn't a Mistake but a Tough Sell

"What we're doing is competing for people's attention and time, and that's a really high bar..." 2XKO is a free-to-play 2v2 tag-team fighting game that is set in the League of Legends universe, and at first, the game was well received when it was fully released in January 2026, but the problem…

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Capcom Is Focusing on Reactivating IPs That Haven't Had a New Launch

Which game would you like to see make a comeback? Capcom announced that Onimusha: Way of the Sword surpassed 1 million copies sold on the first day of its release. The game is a fantasy action-adventure that features sword-based battles, and it's set in Edo-era Kyoto. Now, in a press release…

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GTA 6 Boss Says the Game's Satire Has to Stand the Test of Time

Are you excited about this? Grand Theft Auto 6 has been in development since 2015, and Rob Nelson, Head of Development and Co-Studio Head at Rockstar North, says developers had to be very careful with the ideas, social and political situations, and even jokes they put in the game. In a conversation…

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Ocarina of Time Remake Adds Jumping, Sprinting & Voice Acting

Ocarina of Time on Switch 2 Is Clearly More Than a Simple Remake, Release Date Confirmed The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time launches in November on Switch 2 to rival GTA 6. The remake adds manual jumping, sprinting, free camera control, full voice acting, a new quest log, and rebuilt visuals. ▶…

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Cool Pokémon-Style Holographic Card Effect

Pokémon-Style Holographic Card Effect: Check Out Fuyuka, Shadow Striker Kazehaya Fuyuka created a playing card using Clip Studio Paint Pro and Adobe After Effects. Check out Fuyuka's stunning Balatro-inspired playing card with a Pokémon-style holographic reflection featuring the artist's original…

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Riot Says League Of Legends MMO's Future Is "Incredibly Bright"

It's also the studio's "grail quest," where "many a brave knight are gonna die." We've known for about five years that Riot Games has been developing an MMO set in the League of Legends universe, although the project has gone through many changes, including a "reset" in early 2024. Given its…

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Powerful GPU-Powered Multi-Physics Toolkit For Blender Artists

Pro Particles handles particles, liquids, Pyro, and MPM simulations all in one workflow. ▶ YouTube CG_Flow's Pro Particles is a comprehensive Blender add-on for creating high-quality particle simulations, and the latest major update adds new simulation systems and improves key workflows with a…

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Blizzard May Be Hinting at Return of Legendary StarCraft Character

Speculation is heating up as BlizzCon draws near. ▶ YouTube Ahead of BlizzCon, Blizzard might tease fans with a StarCraft reveal. There are two teasers on the official StarCraft: Remastered website, spotted by GamesRadar: strange glitches appearing over the regular website with the game materials,…

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Valve Admits They Staged the 2009 Left 4 Dead 2 Trailer Leak

That suspiciously crisp footage the world got to see in 2009 was not, in fact, an unofficial leak, former Valve writer Chet Faliszek explains in his recent video. Because of ESRB's strict rules on violence, gore, and profanity in video games, Valve had a hard time launching Left 4 Dead 2 in several…

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The Duskbloods Creator Says Strict Rules Prevent Games From Being Fun

Elden Ring & Bloodborne Creator Says Strict Rules Prevent Games From Being Fun FromSoftware director Hidetaka Miyazaki shares his thoughts ahead of The Duskbloods' launch. ▶ YouTube The Duskbloods, FromSoftware's upcoming action RPG, approaches release, and the studio's president, Hidetaka…

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Simple & Low-Cost Hair Simulation & Deformation System

Simple Hair uses 3D structures made from tetrahedrons. ▶ YouTube Character Artist Gerardo Castellanos has teased Simple Hair, an upcoming addition to the GRM Groom Toolkit, his collection of Houdini tools that streamlines the hair grooming process. Simple Hair is based on tetrahedral geometry and…

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Fix Body & Clothing Clipping In Blender With This Tool

Adjust parameters in real-time, bake the results into Shape Keys or directly to the mesh. ▶ YouTube If you need to align selected vertices with nearby shapes, rinvo's Proximity Snap should do the job. For fixing overall costume penetration or gaps and saving the results as Shape Keys, ShellFit by…

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Tiny Glade-Inspired Diorama Builder With Interactive Water

Check out KingCakeTheFruity's progress on Waterfalls Dream. Max Gorishniy, also known as KingCakeTheFruity on Reddit, is developing a really cool diorama-building game centered around waterfalls and nature. It takes inspiration from Tiny Glade and Townscaper, but with realistic water as the main…

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Persona 1 & 2 Remakes Might Happen One Day, Series Producer Says

Series producer Kazuhisa Wada said that the remake or remaster is a way of "cultural preservation." ▶ YouTube With Persona 4 Revival, a remake of 2012 Persona 4 Golden, looming on the horizon with a release date of February 18, 2027, there's a possibility that we might also anticipate remakes of…

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Typography Artist Celebrates 180K Followers with 200+ Free Fonts

Yuta ONE's font collection is free to grab, but only for a limited time. Yuta ONE, an artist focusing on typography, celebrates a milestone in follower count and shares a collection of more than 200 premium fonts for a limited time. The artist surpassed 180,000 followers on X/Twitter. To mark the…

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Former RuneScape Developer Sentenced for Stealing $400K from Players

"Just because it's virtual, doesn't mean he shouldn't face the full force of the law." Former Old School RuneScape developer Andrew Lakeman, formerly known as Jed Sanderson and better known to players as Mod Jed, has been sentenced for stealing over $400,000 in gold and items from players'…

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Former BioWare Designer Defends Studio Amid Next Mass Effect Doubts

What do you think about this? In 2020, BioWare announced plans to develop another Mass Effect game. During the Game Awards that year, the studio released a teaser and shared on Twitter that the next title in the franchise was in early production. Nonetheless, given that Mass Effect: Andromeda and…