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Microsoft has delayed its upcoming Fable reboot once again. The game was set to launch in autumn 2026, but Microsoft now says that Fable will come out in February 2027. However, it will show a "new look" at the game at its Xbox Games Showcase on June 7th. "This is year is packed with incredible ga
GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge Submission There’s something strangely emotional about reopening an old unfinished game project. Especially one that once felt like “the next big idea” at 2 AM during a hackathon 😭 You open the folder expecting nostalgia… …and instead find: broken UI random commits
Bungie also shared more information about what players can expect from the game's new season.
After rolling credits on Mina the Hollower, I did something unusual for me and immediately started a new file. I'm not typically one to replay games right after I beat them. But Mina, a new action-adventure title from Shovel Knight creators Yacht Club Games, offers something that got me to jump righ
The Problem We Were Actually Solving It started with a simple requirement: players should be able to dig for treasure in a persistent world, and the treasure they found should not magically disappear or duplicate when the server restarted. At the time, we were running a single world shard with about
The Problem We Were Actually Solving I was tasked with configuring a treasure hunt engine for a large-scale online game, where thousands of users would be interacting with the system simultaneously. The goal was to ensure the long-term health of our servers, while also providing a seamless experienc
The Problem We Were Actually Solving Our game server at Veltrix had a leak that grew by 1.2MB per second under load. No stack traces, no panics—just the alloc counter in /proc/self/status climbing like a drunk spider on caffeine. The game loop looked innocent: while let Some(player) = next_player()
We had just finished the first major traffic spike. Our Veltrix-based treasure hunt game ran flawlessly for 37 minutes—exactly 37 minutes—before every Redis connection turned into a 250 ms bottleneck. The default Veltrix configuration shipped with connection pooling set to 8, keep-alive disabled, an
The Problem We Were Actually Solving The problem wasn't just about handling a million events; it was about providing a seamless experience for our players, while also ensuring that our back-end system could scale horizontally. Our initial requirements seemed simple enough: process events, update the
