How Bandcamp became the "headquarters" for video game soundtracks

Long crucial to independent music, Bandcamp is also an important outlet for video game composers to make money off their work ...
Tech Xplore

I was a designer for RuneScape—its comeback reveals how old games can be rejuvenated

RuneScape experienced a surge of popularity over the 2025 holiday season. While fan nostalgia for a game that is now 25 years ...

Principled Technologies and the BenchmarkXPRT Development Community release a preview of WebXPRT 5

WebXPRT 5, a free online performance evaluation tool, provides objective information about how well web-connected ...
AARP

More Americans Are Surviving Cancer — What It Means for Older Adults

Seven in 10 people now survive their cancer five years or more, up from only half in the mid-70s,” said Rebecca Siegel, ...
AARP

He Designs Robots to Fight Fires and Deliver Food

Roboticist Dennis Hong, 54, is a professor at the UCLA School of Engineering and director of RoMeLa (Robotics & Mechanisms ...
TweakTown

Game development is now affected by the RAM crisis

TL;DR: Rising DDR5 memory and storage costs, driven by the ongoing DRAM crisis and AI demand, are causing supply shortages and higher prices through 2026. This forces game developers like Larian ...
Game Rant

The Last of Us Director Criticizes Use of AI in Game Development

Sarah has been an editor and contributor for Game Rant since 2015. After meeting her first Chocobo, she never looked back. Sarah majored in game design in college and utilizes that knowledge to ...
GamesRadar+

Peak devs admit to committing a "cardinal sin of game development," but their excuse is the viral co-op climbing game was just supposed to be a game jam project

Co-op comedy smash hit Peak just dropped a new update, and while fixing a bug that's persisted since this summer's launch, the devs admitted to a "cardinal sin." What did developers Aggro Crab (of ...
Engadget

Mewgenics, the next game from The Binding of Isaac's developer, will arrive next February on PC

Indie game developer Edmund McMillen hosted a Reddit AMA today offering some more details about his upcoming game Mewgenics. For starters, the Steam release date for this turn-based cat-breeding RPG ...
GamesRadar+

"I feel a strong need to prevent Japanese-style game development from being lost": 40-year games veteran argues Japan devs should make "unapologetically Japanese" games

Originally released on the PlayStation 1 in Japan in 1999, cozy life sim Milano's Odd Job Collection returns today, December 9, with its first official Western release. For 11-year-old protagonist ...
Polygon

The race to make Bird Game 3 a reality is already underway

Despite being an AI-generated game idea that doesn't exist, Bird Game 3 continues to tear up TikTok with millions of likes and views. In this fictional open-world game, you "play" as a bird of your ...
InfoWorld

Intro to Nest.js: Server-side JavaScript development on Node

Nest’s design is philosophically inspired by Angular. At its heart is a dependency injection (DI) engine that wires together all the components using a common mechanism. If you are familiar with ...