This week's extensive upgrade for The Witcher 3 modernizes the game's visuals, combat, progression, controls, and interface, plus there's even a particularly impressive native version for Nintendo Switch 2.

Anna Beganska's tutorial will walk you through the full process, from creating mid-poly topology to optimizing the model for low-poly use.

KRAFTON's Flyway Games made a whimsical adventure about a journey into the afterlife.

Moylo is hand-drawn and animated frame by frame in a classic rubber hose cartoon style.

3D Animator Adrian Nita shared another awesome character animation made with Maya.

You can also download the mesh created by the artist.

Fyr Baker's own GPU engine makes baking faster than Blender's default system.

Harmonie is an upcoming action game with watercolor-inspired graphics from a small French studio, L'Atelier.

Draggable corner handles, carousel drivers, and SubViewport input forwarding.

Developer Hugo Duprez created a fun web game with a furious stickman who destroys websites.

Reliable Plumbing Services released their pinball vertical climber, where you travel through the world of Western philosophy.

NVIDIA has partnered with over 100 industry companies, including Anthropic and SpaceXAI, to introduce a security layer that operates across both software and hardware.

Former Pixar FX Technical Director Jae Jun Yi explains how his Multi-Layered RBD Simulation workflow lets Houdini artists add fractures and secondary detail while preserving approved destruction motion.

Quentin Riviale talks about the challenges of balancing visual richness and clarity when it comes to creating characters for games, discusses the importance of using subtle visual hints to communicate crucial information to a player, and explains how he made his 3D character sculpt come to life as a 3D-printed figurine.

A man of culture, Gabe Newell was mastering his sygyt and kargyraa during office hours, he confessed in an email to a fan.

It's designed to work with minimal setup, handle complex geometry, and support IK-driven animation workflows.

Works with single- and multiple-object selections, including mirrored objects and those rotated relative to one another.

We spoke with Fabien Weibel, founder of Bubblebird Studio, about developing the cozy tropical game Sandcastle, refining its water and sand simulation in Unity, shaping its gameplay, and how player feedback helps improve development.

A masterclass on topology from Nur Diker Köksal.

Sketching Ideas is a mesmerizing destruction VFX piece by wildWillowPillow.

Visualize how your character pets a dog, brushes their teeth, drives, or has a coffee.

3D and VFX artist Swoon showed how to use the Normality plugin from Stefan Minning to create 3D lighting in a 2D piece.

The fourth dimension, featuring quirky creatures, debuts in Minecraft Dungeons II before arriving in Java & Bedrock next year.

Open-source and available in two versions: Lite and Full.

Happy Wheels is back, with some new additions.

Bethesda's former lead systems designer, Kurt Kuhlmann, said the sequel might be a chance to revisit the original ideas.

Andras Ketzer shared an upgraded version of his real-time fluid simulation tool for Unreal Engine 5.

Check out cool effects by Ucchiey.

Adikteev's Emilien Eychenne knows that your biggest game growth lever isn't new installs; it's learning to spot churn early and win mobile players back for good.

Volodymyr Donchenko shares the process behind his breathtaking simulator scene inspired by The Matrix Awakens: an Unreal Engine 5 Experience, explains how he crafted a cooling system to help his PC survive through the project, and talks about the importance of making a fitting soundtrack for immersive scenes.

Take a look at our picks for games with eye-catching visual styles.

Nikhil K S talks about the challenge of collecting real-life textures for further use in lookdev, explains why more displacement does not necessarily equal more realism, and shows how he set up the lighting to keep the scene chillingly dark yet make every little slimy crevice on the Demogorgon's pale skin stand out.

Black magic.

Learn how to create strong, readable silhouettes in motion through Laura Lico's work on Moss: Book 2.

This collection, created by colormass, features wood, glass, paint, ceramic, and other textures.

The sense of weight and motion is fantastic. Also, it's cute.

id Software staff describe low morale and unclear communication after Xbox's layoffs.

Fans, however, have some objections.

Gamescom 2026 highlighted advances in ray-traced rendering, dense geometry, scalable asset creation, proprietary engines, and emerging AI-assisted 3D workflows.

This 67-hour-long learning path from The Gnomon Workshop will teach you how to tame your shaders, make complex custom materials, set up lighting for a lookdev scene, and more.

MobyGames has introduced a verification process that lets developers claim recognition for work they were previously not listed for.

Playing as Ganondorf could have been one of gaming's biggest "what-ifs."

The PvEvP mode will be part of an interconnected set of experiences.

Jill Braff told Obsidian staff by email that the studio's leadership and creative strengths will remain intact after joining Bethesda.

You can play it for free!

It looks so beautiful!

It combines biological automation, free exploration, and tower defense.

The action-adventure survival horror from Screen Burn Interactive is out, and the users are already noticing lots of stuttering – again.

Vermeil is here to help you learn.

Meshingun Studio released a bundle that features a collection of gothic furniture props, realistic environments with Asian temples, stylized foliage, and 20 more masterfully crafted packs.