2025/09/27 — issue #612

SMLS, js13kGames playtesting, and Squarehead Hero

Articles

Safari's newest version will allow you to play full-screen browser games
Apple is bringing full-screen gaming to Safari in an upcoming update.
Iwan Morris at Pocket Gamer

Saudi Arabia and other investors nearing $50 billion deal to buy EA
The massive deal might be announced officially as soon as next week according to sources with knowledge of the situation.
Zack Zwiezen at Kotaku

Unity’s dominance challenged in web gaming, Playgama maps top engines across web-game categories
The company went analyzed how engines distribute across different game categories, offering a closer look at the dynamics behind genres and development stacks.
Gamigion

Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser announces his retirement
Devon Pritchard named as successor. So long, Bowser.
Wesley Yin-Poole at IGN

Tutorials

Real-time multiplayer in PlayCanvas with Node.js and Socket.io
We'll be implementing a client-server model (as opposed to peer-to-peer). This will be a basic server that will receive data from all clients (which are our PlayCanvas instances) and broadcast it back.
PlayCanvas Docs