Cocos, the long-running developer of cross-platform game technology, has moved its Cocos 4 game engine from a proprietary model to full open source, a step that reshapes its relationship with ...

Ritual Games' 2022 2D platformer, One Gun Guy, is currently available for free on Steam as a part of publisher GrabTheGames' holiday sale. Not to be confused with One-Punch Man, One Gun Guy is ...

When he decided to present his Rayman video game project to Ubisoft, he brought a 150-page file describing the whole game and a demo. Totally convinced, the Guillemot brothers gave him two years to ...

Millions of digital horses were clad in armour on April 3, 2006. The survivors of this phenomenon called this downloadable content purchase a “microtransaction.” They lived only to face new nightmares ...

Publisher THQ Nordic and developer Weappy will release a demo for hand-drawn side-scrolling platformer The Eternal Life of Goldman for PC via Steam in February as part of Steam Next Fest: February ...

Think pixel art is only for simple 2D games? Not necessarily. Modern hardware and a bit of technical wizardry allows today's ...

3D computer animation is the go-to style for most studios making animated films today. However, traditional hand-drawn 2D animation once ruled over the industry and is sorely missed in the modern ...

The core problem of the beat-'em-up genre in 2025 is content. They're games designed to be beatable in two or three hours.

Ethan Krieger (He/Him) is an editor at DualShockers that got started in the writing industry by covering professional basketball for a sports network. Despite being a diehard sports fan (mainly ...

Crossplay games really are the holy grail of gaming, and they weren't particularly all that common until a few years ago. Nowadays, there are plenty of online experiences you can jump into with ...

No Fate brings back the glorious Arcade brawler action of the 1990s, while adapting one of the best movies ever in a faithful ...