Despite the overwhelming number of players who are decrying the use of GenAI in game development, one company is doubling ...

With AI helping tackle these time-consuming processes, teams can iterate on core gameplay loops more rapidly and with greater ...

Grounded 2 was a bigger success story for Obsidian Entertainment than the developer's AAA titles, which might change the ...

Game studios are increasingly using AI tools, yet more than half of industry professionals now say generative AI is hurting game development rather than helping it, according to a new survey.

Overall, 36% of the game developers surveyed used generative AI (828 people), with "business professionals" and "upper ...

As ballooning costs and longer production cycles strain major publishers, smaller teams are finding room to grow — and meaning in the creative freedom.

The 2026 Game Developers Conference (GDC), which has been renamed the GDC Festival of Gaming, takes place in early March. Ahead of the San Francisco-based industry event, GDC has released its annual ...

Discover how open-world game development works, from the complete game design process for creating vast maps to building advanced NPC systems that bring worlds alive.

In one form or another, co-development companies have nearly always been around in the games industry. For as long as people have been making games, there have been companies and developers who have ...

Morgan Pinder is a writer at GameRant and a graduate researcher at Deakin University in Australia. Their research interests are in video games, environmentalism and gothic media. Morgan’s most recent ...

A new GDC survey shows game developers are prioritizing Windows PC over consoles, with PS5, Switch 2, and Xbox seeing lower interest.