They just removed Denuvo from Just Cause 3 (without prior announcement). I assume, they are preparing for Winter Sale that way!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/225540/Just_Cause_3/ — a rare game, where I advise people to get it with all DLCs, since they hide a lot of cool stuff. PS. NEVER buy Just Cause 4, it's meh.

Zorin OS team decided to share some $$$ with a lot of open source projects!

https://blog.zorin.com/2025/12/17/our-gift-to-the-open-source-ecosystem-this-holiday-season/
#Linux@GameDEV
#OpenSource@GameDEV

Tencent spent years, negotiating the possible Horizons Online. Sony clearly said no, but Tencent already wasted millions on the production and announced it as Light of Motiram.

Now, after several months in court, the game is officially delisted and the case is settled. But they will not tell us how exactly.

#PlayStation@GameDEV
#Tencent@GameDEV
#Legal@GameDEV

Game director of Mafia and KCD 1/2 decided that he is not YET controversial enough, so he joined the Larian shitstorm. I mean, it's what he does every couple of months, but this time about AI.

Basically:
- AI can kill us all
- It can allow indies make cool games
- He's ready to risk (he's old and rich)
- He hates that work is so slow
- He wants to kinda "speed up people"

Fuck him in particular with his risks and wealth! Don't buy Kingdom Come on Winter Sale.

#AI@GameDEV

During the end-of-year campaign Blender received over 27000 one-time donations from actual users. All thanks to memes on social media, I assume! ❤️

#Blender@GameDEV

Unity is trying to make some crap again: according to Mobilegamer and 80lvl, they are pushing for up to $2m annual commitment.

I assume, companies will not like that, and it will finally push big clients towards open solutions. They will find out how integrate SDKs into Godot...

#Unity@GameDEV

Battlefield 6 got broken after the recent update. The same as it was on release, the game enables hidden Frame Generation, that causes performance issues, mouse movement inconsistency, crashes, and memory leaks.

Technically, Frame Gen looks disabled in the settings, but the game still generates you some frames even if you are already way over 100 FPS. And apparently it's not DLSS or FSR or whatever, it's something different under the hood.

On any hardware!

The whole Steam forum and EA support forum are filled with complaints now. No official response though.

#Battlefield@GameDEV
#EA@GameDEV

Get ready for Indie Games Awards!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lixLgd1WV2E
#IndieGames@GameDEV
#Events@GameDEV

If you are a big fan of Fallout New Vegas, you really should save yourself from the Season 2. It has mind-control chips, the Rob-co boss is actually not a real one, the real one was hiding among people all the time...

If you don't give a damn about New Vegas, it's okay, the execution is fine most of the time.

#Fallout@GameDEV
#Movies@GameDEV

Literally this moment

#Fallout@GameDEV
#meme@GameDEV

Yep! Bruce Straley (Co-Director of TLOU) don't believe we should use AI for games.

By the way, he's the good TLOU fella and by his overseeing the games were actually playable.

#AI@GameDEV
#LastOfUs@GameDEV

No, kids, console gaming is equally dead. But in reality it's not what you think it is:

- This Black Friday hardware sales were up to 80% lower than years before. People simply do not want to invest in hardware, since any hardware will not bring you stable FPS.

My GPU price grew $6 during the last four months, despite RAM shortages. Some tried to raise prices, but lost even more — people do not buy that shit.

#Hardware@GameDEV
#AI@GameDEV

See below, where they say Fleming is "handing over".
Yup a forced exit.

The studio begins a "new chapter"?
Yeah they're in trouble.

Still free on Epic Store!

Also, Netflix sees no value in a company, capable of selling 40 million copies of a single player game. They only evaluate the movie making department.

WB, unfortunately, also hates that their big hit isn't online. But they gave up and the sequel is in production.

If you still haven't crushed your mental health, go watch Look Back (2024)

Based on the short manga by the creator of Chainsaw Man, this story explores a complicated relationship between two artists.

#Anime@GameDEV
#Movies@GameDEV

Hold up...

#Microsoft@GameDEV
#meme@GameDEV

That's how I play!

#RPG@GameDEV
#meme@GameDEV

Sad but true

#AI@GameDEV