YouTube is no longer just a video-sharing website — it’s a massive infrastructure that combines video hosting, search functionality, and data-driven engagement mechanisms at a scale few other platforms have reached. As of 2025, YouTube handles more than 117 billion…
Console cross-play used to be a dream. Now, it’s practically a standard. But bringing it to life — especially in a high-intensity tactical FPS like Insurgency — is anything but easy. This is the story of how Pingle Studios, working…
When most people hear the term “game creation platform,” their minds jump to Roblox or Minecraft. But ControlZee’s dot big bang is redefining what it means to make and share games — directly inside your browser, no downloads required. With…
The mobile gaming world continues to shift under the weight of post-pandemic industry corrections. The latest studio to feel the pressure is Outplay Entertainment, the Dundee-based developer behind Subway Surfers Blast and Angry Birds Pop, which recently laid off 21…
It starts out calm. You’re Henry, stationed in the vast Wyoming wilderness, watching for smoke and chatting through a radio with a woman named Delilah. Seems pretty chill, right? But somewhere around the halfway mark, Firewatch begins to mess with…
At GDC 2025, Tom Francis, director of Tactical Breach Wizards and founder of Suspicious Developments, took the stage to talk about storytelling and comedy in games. Among his many insights, one surprisingly practical takeaway stood out: animate text word by word—not letter by letter. Francis,…