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'It's okay to make a small game:' Astro Bot director Nicolas Doucet says tiny ideas contain huge potential
'As game designers we always think that more is better, but it's not the case.'
March 22, 2025
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Anti-Cheat: The Ultimate Protection Against Game Cheaters
Anti-cheat is a crucial tool in the gaming industry, designed to detect and prevent unfair gameplay by identifying and blocking cheats, hacks, and unauthorized modifications. These programs ensure a fair gaming environment by preventing cheaters from gaining an unfair advantage.
March 21, 2025
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How to Encrypt Game: A Comprehensive Guide to Game Hardening
Game encryption, also known as game hardening, is essential for protecting game assets, code, and resources from tampering, hacking, and reverse engineering. This guide will walk you through various encryption techniques, covering game engine reinforcement, game code encryption, global-metadata encryption, and game asset/resource encryption.
March 21, 2025
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'Balatro' Plays Winning Hand at GDCA 2025, Receiving Game of the Year
No jokers here! Indie roguelike deckbuilding game Balatro from solo developer LocalThunk has taken the pot at the 25th annual Game Developers Choice Awards on Wednesday.
March 21, 2025
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Nintendo, Microsoft, EA and others unite to make accessibility messaging a priority
A cohort of major companies have launched the Accessible Games Initiative with assistance from the ESA.
March 21, 2025
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How Civilization VII's powerful narrative system helps players experience unique parts of history
Using player agency to help engage with history, both real and fictitious.
March 21, 2025
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'Consume Me' Wins Grand Prize, Nuovo Award at the 2025 IGF Awards
Indie game Consume Me, developed by Jenny Jiao Hsia, AP Thomson, Jie En Lee, Violet W-P and Ken "coda" Snyder, won the Seumas McNally Grand Prize and the Nuovo Award at the 2025 Independent Games Festival on Wednesday.
March 21, 2025
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Unity prioritizing AI workflows, enhanced performance, and expanded platform support in 2025
'We're committed to accelerating product innovation and quality.'
March 20, 2025
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Unity's CEO, CTO promise 'stability' after runtime fee debacle
Uniting developers has never been so challenging.
March 20, 2025
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Netflix Games boss says the streamer must strive to cause 'disruption'
'I feel like this is a place where we can experiment and do things that hopefully will make history.'
March 20, 2025
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Industry-wide union UVW-CWA has already welcomed over 100 new members
'You pay your dues and you're in the union.'
March 20, 2025
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'We need to define what it means to be safe as [players] around the world:' a code of ethics in gaming
'If there is any moment where standing up for our values in this industry matters, this is it.'
March 20, 2025