Engine maker Unity has released its development app Struckd onto the online game platform CrazyGames.Struckd features easy-to-learn tools that allow anyone to learn game development, regardless of their skill. It runs on Unity 6 (which fully launches in October), and will feature a simplified UI "that makes game development accessible to everyone."The app will let creators instantly share their games, which CrazyGames is counting on to grow its presence as a hub for user-generated content.This move brings another set of easy-access game development tools to the web, and integrates them with a growing, browser-based platform.In April, Unity's then-product chief Marc Whitten told Game Developer about the growing interest in browser-based games built on WebGPU. Teaming with Cra…
Christopher Abbott (Poor Things, Kraven the Hunter) has officially signed on for Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man, a reimagining of the classic Universal monster movie. The actor replaces Ryan Gosling, who has been attached to the project for three years. While Gosling dropped out of acting in the project, he remains an executive producer.
The new Wolf Man will mark Whannell’s second Universal reimagining after 2020’s The Invisible Man with Elisabeth Moss, and his fourth collaboration with Blumhouse. The official synopsis for the film describes it as “Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.” Much like Invisible Man, look for this remake to have a more contemporary twist. Come from Sports betting site V…
After eight months as a paid game, Square Enix's Foamstars will go free-to-play on October 4.The developer further revealed that it'll remove the PlayStation Plus requirement for the sudsy shooter on the same day. In short, it's effectively giving the game away for free to anyone interested.Foamstars released in early February for the PlayStation 4 and 5. While it was priced at $30, PS+ subscribers got the game packaged in with their subscription, similar to how PlayStation handled the launch of Destruction All-Stars in 2021.
Will free-to-play status clean up Foamstars' numbers?
Reading between the lines, the free-to-play shift indi…