Hackaday

Implementing A Rhythm Game Entirely In A GPU Shader

Most rhythm games have a community creating custom charts, and Trombone Champ is no exception. What is exceptional, however, ...
The New Yorker

“Exit 8” Is a Video-Game Adaptation That Ingeniously Subverts Its Source

In Genki Kawamura’s infinity-loop thriller, “Exit 8,” a labyrinthine metro station becomes a metaphor for a life lived in ...
DualShockers

10 Open-World Games that Start as Simple Adventures, But Become Incredibly Dark by the Final Act

Eric Warner is a Journalist and Multimedia Producer based in New England with over seven years of experience producing stories for multiple print, online, radio, and video publications. Eric has been ...
IGN

Unity, the Game Engine Behind Titles Like Hollow Knight: Silksong and Peak, Beats Estimates in Q1 Financials

Game engine maker Unity, whose tech powers many games, from 2025 hits like Hollow Knight: Silksong and Peak to anticipated 2026 offerings like Mouse: P.I. for Hire and Replaced (both of which are due ...
DualShockers

10 Games With Destructible Environments

Jaime Tugayev is the News Editor for DualShockers with over a decade of experience, and a much longer love for fantasy, shooters and strategy games. An appetite for destruction has been around since ...
Game Rant

The Witcher 4 Will Be a Whole New Game (Compared to Geralt's Adventures)

Nick is a freelance writer from Chicago, IL, with a BA in Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His lifelong belief in the artistic power of video games led him to ...
IEEE

BCFuzz: Bytecode-Driven Fuzzing for JavaScript Engines

Abstract: The interpreter and the Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler are two core components of modern JavaScript engines, both of which take bytecodes as input. Most bugs in these components are closely ...