Game Developer

AUGUST 5, 2025

Other ProbablyMonsters developers are working in other genres—one is working on a co-op "soulslike" (for the unfamiliar, a nascent phrase referring to games inspired by the Dark Souls series), an open-world role-playing game, and an "extraction base-builder." " Image via ProbablyMonsters.

Studios

The Bottom Feeder

MAY 15, 2025

I just remembered that Cyberpunk 2077 has genital customization features and I completely forgot to look for them. A huge fantasy world that positively drips money. Side note: It’s impossible to balance a large open-world RPG. I found that very reassuring while I work on my own large open-world RPG.)

Fighting

Grumpy Gamer

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

When I first started RPGTBD everyone told me that it’s unrealistic to do a open world RPG with a small team. It’s not going to be everybody’s cup of tea, but Elissa and I get lost in playing it when we should be testing a new feature, so I guess that’s good. What do they know? Well, a lot actually.

Pixel

GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 23, 2025

Skip to main content Nintendo Switch 2 Layoffs Jobs roundup Financials Critical Consensus Navigation Features News Academy Events Newsletters Video Games Jobs Go Support us Sign in / Create account If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy.

Entertainment

GamesIndustry.biz

JULY 4, 2025

Skip to main content Nintendo Switch 2 Layoffs Jobs roundup Financials Critical Consensus Navigation Features News Academy Events Newsletters Video Games Jobs Go Support us Sign in / Create account If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy.

Development

Game Developer

APRIL 17, 2025

Originally introduced in Mario Kart DS, the Switch 2 exclusive is reintroducing missions, this time in an open-world setting.

Feature

Game Refinery

OCTOBER 11, 2022

The anime art style is fairly similar to the one in Genshin Impact, but one of the biggest differences is that Tower of Fantasy players explore the open sci-fi world of the planet Aida, rather than the fantasy setting depicted in Genshin Impact. The open-world of Tower of Fantasy. How is the genre shift shown in the game?

Fantasy

Game Refinery

MAY 4, 2023

After all, this is hardly the first time that QQ Speed has added a new mode that significantly differs from its primary mechanics; it once featured a Fall Guys-style minigame and a recreational area where players can hang out and chat with others. The game features a Homeworld Slot mode with similar mechanics to the hit game Coin Master.

Mobile Gaming

PreMortem.Games

JUNE 24, 2024

Aesir specializes in open-world games, with key genres including simulator games like Police Simulator: Patrol Officers and Ambulance Life: A Paramedic Simulator , alongside horse-riding games such as the Windstorm franchise and Horse Tales: Emerald Valley Ranch. I’m really happy with how our animations are turning out.”

Open World

PreMortem.Games

JANUARY 31, 2024

It’s an open-world survival craft game where you tame monsters and put them to work. Both feature large open worlds and show the same exact environmental indicators (e.g., The hottest game these weeks is Palworld by Japanese developer Pocketpair. And it has earned more than $200 million in its first five days.

Open World

Starloop Studios

JANUARY 5, 2023

From simple pixel graphics to complex, life-like open worlds, the visuals of modern video games are unparalleled. Video games have come a long way since their inception. Of course, this advancement wouldn’t be possible without animation and VFX (visual effects).

Animation

PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Ideas for the game’s content were inspired mainly from movies and TV shows, while the game designs came from the games the team loves to play, like Everquest for the open world concept and The Vanishing Hitchhiker for the atmosphere. The key feature of Scene Investigators is the 70/30 formula, or hypothesis testing.

Studios

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

It includes major improvements all across the board in features, performance, and usability. The features offered are also a lot more reminiscent of AAA games, such as far more material options and advanced visual effects (including circle DOF , volumetric fog, AMD FSR, etc.). Several features were added to Godot Physics since 3.x,

AAA

Game Refinery

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Video games have come a long way since they were first conceptualized in the 1950s, with expansive open worlds that can fit right in your pocket, but you don’t need to go back 70 years to see what games looked like back then.

Mobile

PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Transdimensional portals Nightingale is a first-person, PVE, open-world survival crafting game played solo or cooperatively online. One standout feature of Nightingale according to Flynn is the Realm Card system, developed to give players more agency in their survival-crafting experience. “We

Balance

iHobo

JUNE 28, 2023

Later Elder Scrolls games cleaved to the now over-familiar formula of the Grand Theft Auto open world, shaping the world through chains of waypoints. For the open world game to truly satisfy the curiosity motive, the landscape has to be crafted in order to raise questions.

Open World

PreMortem.Games

MARCH 11, 2024

All of a sudden people were asking for more features, more characters, an extra island, basically a bigger game. Combining the looks of a Ghibli movie with the condensed open world of that game, gave birth to the idea of an apprentice witch delivering packages.

Mechanics

Nvidia

MAY 26, 2021

UE5 represents a generational leap in both workflows and visual fidelity, extending the engine’s support for DirectX Raytracing, NVIDIA DLSS, and NVIDIA Reflex, and adding new features such as Nanite and Lumen that make it faster and easier for games to implement photorealistic visuals, large open worlds and advanced animation and physics.

Ray Tracing

AWS Games

MARCH 6, 2024

Featured partners include Perforce, JetBrains, Incredibuild, AccelByte, Pragma, Heroic Labs, Scenario, NVIDIA, Modulate, and Endava. AWS Partner Showcase On Wednesday, March 20, AWS for Games will host a Partner Showcase from 5:00-8:00pm for game developers looking to leverage the latest tools in the cloud and network with industry peers.

AI

Code with Mike

MARCH 1, 2023

If you’ve been diving into Hogwarts Legacy, you might be wondering how to use a broom to fly around the spectacular open world of Hogwarts and beyond. After all, it’s the feature many fans were most excited about.

Open World

PreMortem.Games

JULY 26, 2024

Any time off means you delay your game by that much time, or cut features, or reduce quality. I use several different approaches which usually depend on the scope or impact of the feature. It may start as a feature to ‘walk through’ the design, where that documentation is immediately obsolete as I write it.

Dev

Game Industry News

JANUARY 10, 2023

It has an amazing open world that you can zip around using magic and is one of the biggest AAA titles to feature the Isekai or transported to another world plot device that has infected Anime and Light Novels the past eight years or so. It’s a game that I’m really, really looking forward to.

Games

AWS Games

MARCH 27, 2024

The Gilded Mansion Demo featured a mystery solving game that was built with AWS Bedrock and Anthropic Claude to drive player conversations with in-game characters in search of clues to solve a crime. AWS Events On Monday evening, AWS, Amazon Games and Women in Games International (WIGI) co-hosted a Women in Games event at the Minna Gallery.

AI

Game Errors

APRIL 19, 2023

In this article, we’ll explore the key differences between Japanese games and Western games and examine the unique features that make each style of gaming so appealing to fans around the world. How are Japanese Games vs Western Games different?

Games

Game Errors

APRIL 4, 2023

Multiplayer experience in survival open-world games like Rust is fantastic. But, if a specific feature like voice chat or microphone doesn’t work, you will not get the proper experience. We have found the best solutions to make the voice chat feature work on Rust. Is voice chat not working on Rust? It may help.

Software

Big Games

JANUARY 31, 2024

Turn Off Force 4x Some smartphones come with a “Force 4x” feature or similar settings that boost graphics performance. Genshin Impact Genshin Impact has set new standards for open-world RPGs on mobile.

Console

Game Errors

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

This new open-world space RPG action game has many things to offer. Behind any crashing problem on this Sci-Fi open-world title, these are the most common reasons: Problematic GPU driver: Due to the problems with the GPU driver, your PC may not utilize the video processing unit properly, and it may cause crashing problems on Starfield.

Shaders

Game Errors

JULY 30, 2023

Since its release by Avalanche Software and Warner Bros, it has received praise concerning its open-world map across different gaming forums. Enable the V-Sync Feature As said earlier, screen tearing results from the frame rate being out of sync with the refresh rate.

PC

Nvidia

MARCH 24, 2022

Enhanced RTX SDKs for open-world games It has never been easier to integrate real-time ray tracing in your games with Kickstart RT. Developers can get a headstart in UE5 with dynamic lighting in their open worlds. These new features include per-frame PC Latency measurement and automatic configuration for Reflex Analyzer.

Ray Tracing

Mircosoft Game Dev

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The features. Documentation writers are hard at work to catch up with the new features, and the latest branch should already include details on many of the new 3.2 The download links are not featured on the Download page for now to avoid confusion for new users. would be on its release. and is not included in this release.

Beta

iXie gaming

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The world of video games has undergone a remarkable transformation over the years, evolving from simple pixelated screens to immersive, open-world environments with complex narratives and stunning graphics. Let’s explore how game testing has evolved and how modern QA teams navigate today’s complex gaming landscapes.

Cross platform

Game Errors

APRIL 7, 2023

It takes place in a fantasy-themed world and presents the gameplay through a third-person viewpoint. Players can freely move anywhere across the open world environment, while the gameplay includes the following features: Weapons, Magic Spells, Horseback Riding, Crafting, and Summons.

Co-op

Game Errors

MAY 10, 2023

The book is based on the legends of Hyrule, a mythical kingdom that has been featured in several popular video games. Perhaps it’s the new storyline featuring Princess Zelda as a playable character or maybe it’s the promise of even more expansive worlds to explore.

Retail

Game Errors

MARCH 14, 2023

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is among the most immersive open-world games of the current generation. Even though the game has an autosave feature, we recommend creating manual saves on your local drive in case one gets corrupted.

Internet

Game Errors

APRIL 26, 2023

The length of the main story in Far Cry 6 can vary depending on how much time you spend exploring the open world and completing side missions. Action-packed gameplay : The Far Cry 6 game features a variety of weapons and tools for players to use in combat, which can create a thrilling and satisfying experience.

Open World

Game Errors

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

This new space adventure features the open-world environment on planets beyond the solar system. Turn off any power or battery-saving features, and switch to the High Performance Plan. Is the Starfield low FPS issue hurting your gameplay experience on your PC? Don’t let it make your excitement fade away.

FPS

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Like in previous release cycles, a beta release means that we are happy with the features that have been included and we don’t plan on adding any major new features before release (except for a few that have been discussed and planned in advance). the sooner we can start the next feature development cycle for 4.1! beta 1 now!

Beta