I built an interactive guide on how Shazam (the music identification app) works!

This is the next installment in my newly coined "How The Heck?" series, where we explore everyday tech that can feel like magic (QR Codes, GPS, and now this one).

Hope you enjoy it!

perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck...

UK government commits £28.5 million to supporting local game developers The cash will be distributed in the form of targeted grants issued via the UK Games Fund.

UK government commits £28.5 million to supporting local game developers

love the metro franchise

The making of horror masterpiece Alien: Isolation: 'It was a giddy, exhausting, intense time' The story behind Creative Assembly's modern classic.

Replayed this recently..what a trip www.pcgamer.com/the-making-o... #gaming #videogames #alien

GAP logo: the letters G A and P spelt out in red string on a cork board

Myself and @mtrc.bsky.social are running a workshop on Games and Archaeological Play (GAP) at FDG 2026!
Short papers of up to 4 pages are due by April 5th. We are interested in any work that broadly relates to video game archaeology. See the full CFP here:
gapworkshop.org/call-for-pap...

5.1 — Blender Built for speed. Performance meets stability in Blender 5.1.

Blender Foundation and the online community proudly present Blender 5.1! 🎉

Rock solid, feature-packed, and a performance beast on all fronts, from animation to modeling and compositing.

🎁What's New: www.blender.org/download/rel...

📺Watch Recap: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r3x... #b3d #DevFund

Why No AI Games? I have a theory.

open.substack.com/pub/franklan...

Having contributed to Wireframe magazine since issue #1, I am so happy to see it (and my CityCraft column) preserved on the Internet Archive. Here: archive.org/search?query...

a screenshot of a chat AI system prompt aimed at reducing the 'friendliness/humanness' of an AI and instructing it to just be an information retrieval and task execution system

a system prompt direction #claude #LLMs #chatgpt #ai

1981: How COMPUTER GRAPHICS Will Change the World | Horizon | Retro Tech | BBC Archive YouTube video by BBC Archive

youtube.com/watch?v=W8-5...

More real time procedural #blender walking things

Cogito - Godot Asset Store Cogito is a fully-featured Immersive First Person Template Project for Godot 4

🎉 Happy to announce that #COGITO - our #Godot 4 first person template is now updated to 1.1.5 with lots of polishes, bug fixes and features like the spatial prompt UI and full localization.

💾 Godot Asset Store: store-beta.godotengine.org/asset/philip...

#MadeWithGodot #GodotEngine #MadeWithCogito

The final update of the Godot Shaders Bible is now live with 360 pages 🎉Huge thanks to everyone who supported this project! 🥳

If you don't have the book yet, use this coupon 5OFFGSBJAN26, available for 24 hours 🔗 jettelly.com/store/the-go...

#indiedev #gamedev #godotengine

Hey game devs - don’t forget to add your Bluesky link to your Steam pages.

UploadVR's Best of VR 2025 Awards – Game Of The Year, Hardware & Most Anticipated Of 2026 And finally, here are UploadVR's Best of VR 2025 Awards, featuring our picks for Game of the Year, New Hardware, and Most Anticipated. Find all of our winners here.

And finally, here are UploadVR's Best of VR 2025 Awards, featuring our picks for Game of the Year, New Hardware, and Most Anticipated.

Find all of our winners here:

www.uploadvr.com/best-of-vr-2...

Inverse Kinematics Returns to Godot 4.6 – Godot Engine Now Godot has Inverse Kinematics in 3D.

Inverse Kinematics returns to Godot 4.6! 🕺

After a long wait, IK is back with significant improvements. Tokage breaks down the new implementation:

Otto's Basketball Game, version 1.0.0, is now done :--) The game is freeware, and you can play it on (or download it from) Itchio.

ottoojala.itch.io/ottos-basket...

It's a simple one-button basketball game with lots of silly details and a good kind of homemade feel to it.

#godot #solodev #gamedev

Top 25 Indie Space Games to Wishlist For 2026! YouTube video by LT Gaming

Stumbling over your own game after clicking on a YouTube video about upcoming space games is extra wild, when lying in bed with a fever and thinking you are hallucinating.

Wheeeeeee <3

#indiegame #gamedev #godot #spacegame

store.steampowered.com/app/4060820/...

youtu.be/KbgrrJ-uaqk?...

Godot 4.6 Beta - Best New Features – GameFromScratch.com Following EXTREMELY quickly after the Godot 4.6 Dev6 release, Godot 4.6 beta1 is now available. This is an important milestone in the development of Godot 4.6 as this represents the point of feature f...

Godot 4.6 Beta is here!

This is the feature freeze version, meaning what you see is what you get. We check out the best new #GodotEngine features in Godot 4.6 Beta1.

gamefromscratch.com/godot-4-6-be...

#gamedev #indiedev

📌 Three new papers at #aiide25 from me:

1. A 'vision' paper about why game design is like procedural design bsky.app/profile/mtrc...
2. A new system for generating mechanics called Pixie bsky.app/profile/mtrc...
3. A big group paper about speedrunning as an AI challenge bsky.app/profile/mtrc...

..it is great!

Netflix Just Quietly Released The Most Underrated Fantasy Adventure Of The Year Alex Woo left Pixar to found his own animation studio. Now, he’s directed his first movie, 'In Your Dreams,' and it’s a wildly imaginative ride.

this looks great
www.inverse.com/entertainmen...

'Pixels To Pages' Is A Remarkable New YouTube Documentary Covering The History Of Electronic Gaming Monthly Available now for free

'Pixels To Pages' Is A Remarkable New YouTube Documentary Covering The History Of Electronic Gaming Monthly.

Blender Computer Animation Bundle 4th Edition | eBook Bundle | Fanatical Our new Blender Computer Animation Bundle 4th Edition will...

good looking Packt bundle #godot #blender3d #b3d www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/bl...

How Games Are Made: SOUND DESIGN YouTube video by Noclip

How Games are Made: Sound Design

This is the first in a new series that dives into specific areas of game design.

This first episode is about SOUND, covering everything from recording foley, to assigning priority, how the engine and CPU deal with sound and more.

youtu.be/lbOghip5CPI

Watch Mehdi Hadi's New Sci-Fi Short Film "Memories" The latest short film to emerge from Motion Plus Design's Made With program in partnership with Maxon and Adobe, Memories finds director/CG artist Mehdi Hadi building an atmospheric post apocalypse an...

The latest short film to emerge from Motion Plus Design’s Made With program in partnership with Maxon and Adobe, Memories finds director/CG artist Mehdi Hadi building an atmospheric post apocalypse and its mechanical lifeforms.

Watch: www.stashmedia.tv/watch-mehdi-...

We have every issue of PCGames... we think. | The Video Game History Foundation Get more from The Video Game History Foundation on Patreon

New public post on our Patreon:

We THINK we have every issue of PCGames magazine. How do we know that other issues *don't* exist? Well, it's tricky...

How netcode works, and what makes 'good' netcode Arm yourself with what you need to know about netcode, from tick rates to dedicated servers and peer-to-peer systems.

..here's an introductory primer on programming for multiplayer games www.pcgamer.com/netcode-expl... #gaming #gamedesign #gamedev

They're Hacking Your Packets (and How to Stop Them!) YouTube video by Chris Wilson

A better way of structuring your netcode packets #gamedev #gamedesign www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4RN...