Take a look at our picks for games with eye-catching visual styles. Sometimes games attract us not only with their engaging mechanics but also with distinctive visuals. If you are looking for something aesthetically pleasing or unusual, have a look at our top 10 games with quirky, minimalistic, or…
Black magic. ▶ YouTube Darcy Woodbridge and his Studio Spud set out to see if they could animate this old Life Magazine ad using Moho, the popular vector-based 2D animation software, and needless to say, they nailed it. It's a great ad for Moho: you'd probably never guess this wasn't some…
Learn how to create strong, readable silhouettes in motion through Laura Lico's work on Moss: Book 2. Polyarc, the developer behind the acclaimed Moss VR game series, officially announced the studio's closure on September 11. Around the same time, Vanessa Ruffra chose to break down one of the…
This collection, created by colormass, features wood, glass, paint, ceramic, and other textures. Colormass released a set of 177 textures scanned with an SVBRDF scanner. It includes various types of textures you can use for your environments, props, and character lookdev. The library is especially…
The sense of weight and motion is fantastic. Also, it's cute. This adorable fox girl, rigged and animated by Retroperro, whose Zenless Zone Zero-inspired animation we've featured before, is definitely a great source of inspiration if you're working on combat animations. It feels incredibly well…
id Software Employee Speaks on Uncertainty Following Xbox Restructuring id Software staff describe low morale and unclear communication after Xbox's layoffs. Xbox's restructuring with a focus on consolidating major franchises continues, with the latest news involving Halo moving to Activision,…
Fans, however, have some objections. ▶ YouTube If you're looking for an even more immersive courtroom experience, the newly announced Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies VR lets you step into the shoes of Phoenix Wright, Apollo Justice, and Athena Cykes to investigate crime scenes, build their cases, and…
Gamescom 2026 highlighted advances in ray-traced rendering, dense geometry, scalable asset creation, proprietary engines, and emerging AI-assisted 3D workflows. ▶ YouTube Gamescom is primarily associated with trailers and playable demos, but the event also provides an enormous showcase for the…
Master Texturing & Materials with 12 Industry Professionals in This Course 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. With the Texturing and Materials learning path…
MobyGames has introduced a verification process that lets developers claim recognition for work they were previously not listed for. MobyGames, a comprehensive database about video games and its creators, recently introduced an option for creators to claim video game credits if they, for some…
Playing as Ganondorf could have been one of gaming's biggest "what-ifs." The Legend of Zelda series has traditionally centered on Link, with Zelda occasionally taking on the role of protagonist. But apparently, things could have been different at one point, with the series' iconic villain,…
The PvEvP mode will be part of an interconnected set of experiences. ▶ YouTube Bungie shared what awaits fans of its sci-fi PvEvP extraction shooter, Marathon, including expanded gameplay mechanics and varied difficulty levels. The developers will preserve the PvEvP mode and integrate it into a…
Jill Braff told Obsidian staff by email that the studio's leadership and creative strengths will remain intact after joining Bethesda. Obsidian, a studio known for Fallout: New Vegas, Avowed, The Outer Worlds, and Grounded, joined Bethesda as part of Xbox's continuing reset. The restructuring…
You can play it for free! Nicolas, known as habibicode on social media, created a border-drawing game that has you painting border lines on a map from memory, testing how well you remember your geography classes. The game has three modes: Easy: The map shows you the names of countries and cities.…
It looks so beautiful! 3D Artist Tk_Armakar shared on Reddit an impressive 3D model that looks like an oil painting. The scene has an intimate and nostalgic vibe; it shows a woman sitting on a chair, lighting a cigarette. The artist explained that it was created with a mix of the Paint shader and…
It combines biological automation, free exploration, and tower defense. ▶ YouTube Codifyre, a new team of developers, has revealed Vignus, a top-down action RPG that blends biological automation, free exploration, and tower defense mechanics. "You play as an enigmatic being on a planet consumed by…
One More Spin-Off in the Silent Hill Series, SILENT HILL: Townfall Released The action-adventure survival horror from Screen Burn Interactive is out, and the users are already noticing lots of stuttering – again. ▶ YouTube Silent Hill: Townfall, announced back in October 2022, is finally out 4…
Vermeil is here to help you learn. If you're into stylized 3D and want to recreate the distinctive strand-level shadows and highlights seen in Wuthering Waves characters' hair, you can achieve a similar look using Goo Engine or Blender, with the help of Weyant's guide. It's focused on creating an…
Get Hundreds of Striking Production-Ready Assets with This Unreal Engine Environment Bundle Meshingun Studios released a bundle that features a collection of gothic furniture props, realistic environments with Asian temples, stylized foliage, and 20 more masterfully crafted packs. Meshingun Studio,…
Just your average multiplayer FPS experience. ▶ YouTube Just a few days ago, Valve rolled out the Rush Hour update, bringing some huge changes to CS2, including a brand-new game mode, and it also quietly added something pretty unexpected: pet chickens. Now, chickens are nothing new to the…
Another time-lapse from Aniket Rawat. 3D anime art is Aniket Rawat's specialty, and this isn't the first time we've featured his work on 80 Level: take a look at his interpretation of the iconic door from Suzume. Aniket doesn't limit himself to fan art, the project above is based on an original…
This includes 7 rigs you can play around with. TBSF made all of their Sonic the Hedgehog Blender character rigs free forever. Those include Shadow the Hedgehog, Amy Rose, Tails the Fox, and 4 different Sonic rigs. They are animation-ready and have support for both inverse and forward kinematics, as…
It's fully keyframable in Sequencer and supports both Deferred and Path Traced rendering. ▶ YouTube Scott Jardine has released True Lens, a tool designed to bring the photographic characteristics of real film directly into your Unreal Engine renders. Built primarily for cinematics, it lets artists…
The new Studio feature lets creators test different video cuts to find the strongest hook. YouTube unveiled a new video A/B testing feature for Shorts, allowing creators to compare up to three video cuts to see which opening hooks viewers best. The feature, coming in 2027, is part of a wide range…