2026/08/14 — issue #658

Shipping Three.js into an iframe, js13kGames 2026 started, and BroMetal

Articles

Unity records "best quarter in history" following continued success of Vector AI
AI-driven advertising and user acquisition platform boosted Grow Solutions revenue by 35% to $389 million during Q2.
Sophie McEvoy at GamesIndustryBiz

Fallout 3 dev excited for the remaster because the original game’s visuals were ‘100 percent not what we intended’
According to longtime game developer Nathan Purkeypile, Bethesda's open-world RPG was 'super tech constrained'.
Zack Zwiezen at Kotaku

Coffee Stain bullish despite underperformance of Deep Rock Galactic spinoff
Meanwhile, the company's popular Roblox title, Welcome to Bloxburg, generated $2.1 million during Q1.
Chris Kerr at Game Developer

If you're not paying attention to retro game recompilations, you're missing the most exciting thing in gaming right now
Forget all the new games coming out in 2026. Newly shiny old games are where it's at.
Wes Fenlon at PC Gamer

Tutorials

No build step, no bundler: 11 things that broke shipping Three.js into an iframe
Two 3D games, real ones with physics and shadows and a mascot, that have to load inside an iframe on somebody else's page, on whatever laptop a school district bought in 2019, with no build step, no bundler, and no framework.
Kentog751 at DevTo